- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. To appear. Vedic Sanskrit vocatives in -an: the case for restoring two endings.
- 2020. VV > VC > V for stress: coercion vs. prominence. Linguistic Inquiry. 51.1: 124-40.
- To appear. The development of diphthongs in Vedic Sanskrit. Journal of the American Oriental Society.
- 2019. Prosodic end-weight reflects phrasal stress. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 37.1: 315-56.
- 2019. Bole suffix doubling as morphotactic extension. Schuhschrift: Papers in Honor of Russell Schuh, eds. Margit Bowler, Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, Harold Torrence. University of California: eScholarship Publishing. 139-60.
- 2019. Review of Jeffrey Heinz, Rob Goedemans, and Harry van der Hulst (eds.) (2016). Dimensions of phonological stress. Phonology 36: 180-6.
- 2019. Prosodic weight: categories and continua. Oxford University Press.
- McPherson, Laura & Kevin M. Ryan. 2018. Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs. Language 94.1: 119-156. (supplemental material)
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. 2018. Phonological evidence for pāda cohesion in Rigvedic versification. Language and Meter, eds. Gunkel, Dieter & Olav Hackstein. 34-53. Leiden: Brill.
- 2017. The stress-weight interface in metre. Phonology 34.3: 581-613.
- 2017. Attenuated spreading in Sanskrit retroflex harmony. Linguistic Inquiry 48.2: 299-340.
- 2016. Sanskrit nati: phonetics, morphoprosody, origin and fate. Handout, Harvard Indo-European Workshop.
- 2016. Phonological weight. Language & Linguistics Compass 10: 720-33.
- 2016. Strictness functions in meter. Handout, MIT Phonology Circle.
- Bross, Christoph, Dieter Gunkel, & Kevin M. Ryan. 2015. The colometry of Tocharian 4x15-syllable verse. Tocharian Texts in Context, eds. Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Hannes Fellner, & Theresa-Susanna Illés. 15-28. Bremen: Hempen.
- 2014. Onsets contribute to syllable weight: statistical evidence from stress and meter. Language 90.2: 309-341.
- Bross, Christoph, Dieter Gunkel, & Kevin M. Ryan. 2014. Caesurae, bridges, and the colometry of four Tocharian B meters. Indo-European Linguistics 2: 1-23.
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. 2011. Hiatus avoidance and metrification in the Rigveda. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, eds. Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, & Brent Vine. 53-68. Bremen: Hempen.
- 2011. Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics. Phonology 28.3: 413-454.
- 2010. Variable affix order: grammar and learning. Language 86.4: 758-791.