Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
M/C 168
Urbana, IL 61801
Research Interests
Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Phonological Representations, Computational/Mathematical Phonology
Education
- Ph.D., Linguistics, Stony Brook University, 2024
- M.A., Linguistics, Michigan State University, 2019
- B.A., Lingustics, Michigan State University, 2017
selected publications
Nelson, S. & Baković, E. 2026. "A BMRS Analysis of Trojan (and Transparent) Vowels in Hungarian Vowel Harmony". Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America.
Nelson, S. & Heinz, J. 2026. "The Blueprint Model of Production". Phonology.
Nelson, S. 2025. "Optionality and the Phonetics-Phonology Interface". Proceedings of WCCFL.
Nelson, S. & Baković, E. 2024. "Underspecification Without Underspecified Representations". Society for Computation in Lingusitics.
Taherkhani, N. & Nelson, S. 2024. "Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect". Journal of the International Phonetic Association.
Nelson, S. 2022. "A Model-Theoretic Perspective on Phonological Feature Systems". Society for Computation in Linguistics.
Nelson, S. & Heinz, J. 2021. "Incomplete Neutralization and the Blueprint Model of Production". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology.
Nelson, S. & Durvasula, K. 2021. "Lexically-Guided Perceptual Learning does Generalize to New Contexts". Journal of Phonetics.
- Durvasula, K. & Nelson, S. 2017. "Lexical Retuning Targets Features". Proceedings of the Annual Meeting on Phonology.