Shih Academic

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

Stanford University

(in progress) September 2007 - present
M.A., Ph.D. program
Department of Linguistics

University of California, Berkeley

August 2003 - May 2007
with Honors in College of Letters and Science
with Honors in linguistics
Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics
Bachelor of Arts, English
Minor, Music

Fellowships and Awards

Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2007 Fellowship, Linguistic Society of America, July 2007
H.W. Hill Scholarship, UC Berkeley English Department, October 2006
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Summer 2006

Research

Interests
phonology, prosody, rhythm, meter, poetics, music (esp. language-music interface), non-concatenative morphology, phonology-syntax interface, processing, quantitative and corpus methods

Current Projects

Metrical automatic annotator and corpus
Rhythm's role in predicting genitive and dative alternation choice in spoken English
Picuris stress and length effects

Papers and Presentations

Papers
in pdf format

(in prep) with Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, and Joan Bresnan. "Rhythm's role in predicting genitive and dative alternation choice in spoken English."
(2009) "Prosodic evidence for the lexical status of quasi-serial verbs."
Qualifying paper 1. Stanford University. (Paper.pdf)
(2008) "Constraint Conflict in Jazz Bop Swing Text-setting." MS.
(2007) "'Something's Gotta Give': Rethinking linguistic models of rhythm and text-setting through evidence from jazz bop swing."
B.A. (linguistics) honors thesis. University of California, Berkeley. (Paper.pdf)(Abstract.pdf)
(2006) "Possible Patterns of Prominence in Picuris." MS.
(2006) "For the Music of Love: Shelley's 'Indian Girl's Song' and Delius's Contributions."
B.A. (English) thesis. University of California, Berkeley.

Select Presentations
handouts available upon request

(2010) "Evaluating metrical theories using corpus and computational tools."
(Symposium) A comparison of models of meter: Corpora and other sources of evidence for metrical theory and method. LSA 2010 Annual Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
(2009) with Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, and Joan Bresnan. "Rhythm's role in predicting genitive and dative alternation choice in spoken English."
DGfS: Rhythm beyond the word. Osnabruck, Germany.
(2008) (invited) "Text-setting: a (Musical) Analogy to Poetic Meter."
The Linguistics of the Language Arts: New Research Programs. University of California, Berkeley.
(2007) "Rethinking linguistic models of rhythm through evidence from jazz bop swing."
International Conference on Music Communication Science. Sydney, Australia. (Abstract.pdf)

Teaching

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