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Gouskova, Maria and Suzy Ahn. 2024. Sublexical phonotactics and English comparatives. Submitted to University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics 50th Anniversary Volume. [pdf] [abstract and data]

Gouskova, Maria. 2023 (to appear). MSCs in positional neutralization: The problem of gapped inventories. Phonology. [pdf]

Gouskova, Maria. 2023. Phonological asymmetries between roots and affixes. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Morphology, eds. Peter Ackema, Sabrina Bendjaballah, Eulàlia Bonet, and Antonio Fábregas. Wiley. [pdf] [abstract][doi]

Gouskova, Maria and Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2022. The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby-diminutive -onok. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 40:4, pp.1075-1115. [pdf] [abstract][DOI]

Gouskova, Maria and Juliet Stanton. 2021. Learning complex segments. Language 97:1, pp. 151-193. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria and Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2020. Allomorphy and vocabulary insertion. Ms., NYU and Harvard. [pdf]

Gouskova, Maria and Gillian Gallagher. 2020. Inducing nonlocal constraints from baseline phonotactics. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 38:1, pp. 77-116. [DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-019-09446-x] [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2019. Phonological words in the syntax and the lexicon: A study of Russian prepositions. Journal of Slavic Linguistics 27:2, pp. 161-211. [pdf] [abstract]

Gallagher, Gillian, Maria Gouskova and Gladys Camacho Rios. 2019. Phonotactic restrictions and morphology in Aymara. Glossa 4(1), pp. 1-39. [DOI:http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.826] [pre-publication pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2018. Morphology and Phonotactics. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.613. [pdf]

Becker, Michael and Maria Gouskova. 2016. Source-oriented generalizations as grammar inference in Russian vowel deletion.  Linguistic Inquiry 47:3 pp.391-425. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria, Luiza Newlin-Łukowicz, and Sofya Kasyanenko. 2015. Selectional restrictions as phonotactics over sublexicons. Lingua 167, pp. 41-81. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria and Tal Linzen. 2015. Morphological conditioning of phonological regularization. The Linguistic Review 32:3, pp. 427-473. [pdf] [abstract]

Linzen, Tal, Sofya Kasyanenko, and Maria Gouskova. 2013. Lexical and phonological variation in Russian prepositions. Phonology 30:3, pp. 453-515. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria and Kevin Roon. 2013. Gradient clash, faithfulness, and sonority sequencing effects in Russian compound stress. Laboratory Phonology. 4:2, pp. 323-434. [pdf] [abstract/supplementary materials]

Gouskova, Maria and Michael Becker. 2013. Nonce words show that Russian yer alternations are governed by the grammar. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 31:3, pp. 735-765. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2013. A review of “The Blackwell Companion to Phonology“,  edited by Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, and Keren Rice. Phonology 30:1, pp. 173–179. [pdf]

Gouskova, Maria. 2012. Unexceptional segments. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 30:1, pp. 79-133. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria, Elizabeth Zsiga, and One Tlale. 2011. Grounded constraints and the consonants of Setswana. Lingua 121, pp. 2120-2152. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2010. The phonology of boundaries and secondary stress in Russian compounds. The Linguistic Review 27:4, pp. 387-448. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2010. Optimality Theory in phonology. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, Eds. The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 531-553. [pdf]

Gouskova, Maria. 2009. Review of Introductory Phonology (2009) by Bruce Hayes, Oxford:Blackwell. Language 85:4, pp.937-939. [pdf]

Gouskova, Maria and Nancy Hall. 2009. Acoustics of Unstressable Vowels in Lebanese Arabic. In Steve Parker (ed.), Phonological Argumentation. Essays on Evidence and Motivation. London: Equinox. pp. 203-225. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria and Kevin Roon. 2008. Interface constraints and frequency in Russian compound stress. In the Proceedings of the 17th Meeting of Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics. Edited by Jodi Reich, Maria Babyonyshev, and Darya Kavitskaya. Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publishers. pp. 49-63. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2007. The reduplicative template in Tonkawa. Phonology 24:3, pp. 367-396. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2007. DEP: Beyond epenthesis. Linguistic Inquiry 38:4, pp. 759-770. [pdf] [abstract]

Elizabeth Zsiga, Maria Gouskova and One Tlale. 2006. On the status of voiced obstruents in Tswana: Against *ND. In Christopher Davis, Amy Rose Deal, and Youri  Zabbal, (eds.) The Proceedings of NELS 36. Amherst, MA: GLSA. pp. 721-734. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2004. Relational hierarchies in OT: the case of Syllable Contact. Phonology 21:2, pp. 201-250. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2004. Minimal reduplication as a paradigm uniformity effect. In Vineeta Chand, Ann Kelleher, Angelo J. Rodríguez, and Benjamin Schmeiser, eds. The Proceedings of the 23rd West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 265-278. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2003. Deriving economy: Syncope in Optimality Theory. Ph.D. dissertation. Graduate Linguistics Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 317pp. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2002. Exceptions to sonority generalizations. In Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha & Keiko Yoshimura, eds. CLS 38: The Main Session. Papers from the 38th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. April 25-27, Chicago: CLS. pp. 253-268. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2001. Falling sonority onsets, loanwords, and Syllable Contact. In Andronis, Mary, Christopher Ball, Heidi Elston and Sylvain Neuvel, eds. CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Vol. 1. Chicago: CLS. pp. 175-186. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2001. Split scrambling: Barriers as violable constraints. (short version) In Karine Megerdoomian and Leora Anne Bar-el, eds. Proceedings of the 20th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. pp. 220-223. [pdf] [abstract]

Gouskova, Maria. 2001. Split scrambling: Barriers as violable constraints. (long version) In RuLing Papers II, eds. Graham Horwood and Se-Kyung Kim. New Brunswick: Rutgers University. pp. 49-82. [pdf] [abstract]