Research areas
- phonology
- morphology
- South(east) Asia
- low-level prosody, sandhi, statistical phonology, poetics
- phonological interface, morphotactics, learnability, evolution
- Dravidian, Tai-Kadai, Indo-Aryan, Senaya (Aramaic) fieldwork
Teaching
- summer 2012
- summer 2012
- spring 2012
- spring 2012
- fall 2011
- fall 2011
- Ling S-101: The Science of Language: An Introduction
- Corpus Methods for Linguistics & Poetics (mini-course, LMU Munich)
- Ling 215: Phonological Theory II
- Ling 241: Practicum
- Ling 105: Sounds of Language
- Ling 115: Phonological Theory I
Recent publications
- Ryan, Kevin M. 2011. Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics.
Phonology 28.3: 413-454. [pdf]
- Ryan, Kevin M. 2010. Variable affix order: grammar and learning.
Language 86.4: 758-791. [pdf]
- Ryan, Kevin M. To appear. Contextual and non-contextual prosodic minimality.
NELS 41 Proceedings. [pdf]
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin Ryan. 2011. Hiatus avoidance and metrification in the Rigveda.
WeCIEC 22 Proceedings. [pdf]
- Ryan, Kevin M. 2011. Gradient weight in phonology. Ph.D. thesis, UCLA.
