Adam P Ussishkin

Interests

Research

Visit my website at ussishkin.org. My research interests center around the structure of the lexicon, and involve the application of psycholinguistic techniques to study lexical organization and processing. The languages that form the basis for this research are primarily Semitic languages, most notably Maltese and Modern Hebrew, and together with doctoral students I've also been involved in work on Amharic, Sana'ani Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Jordanian Arabic, and Khalka Mongolian. My recent NSF-funded research on Hebrew and Maltese tested the psycholinguistic reality of traditional elements of Semitic grammar such as the triconsonantal root and the word pattern. I use the auditory masked priming technique in order to investigate the extent to which language processing involves early and automatic parsing of these elements. In my lab, my students and I are also applying this methodology investigating English spoken word recognition to explore the parameters and limits of this technique. This work is connected with several collaborative corpus-building projects, in which I am building corpora and testing corpus representativeness as well as correlations between corpus measures and psycholinguistic behavior.Within formal linguistics, my principal area of interest is the intersection between phonology and morphology. My early training is in phonological theory, and within this domain, most of my work focused on prosodic morphology, or the interaction between word formation and prosodic restrictions.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Meyer, J., Kloehn, N., Carnie, A. H., Archangeli, D. B., Clayton, I., Fisher, M., Hammond, M., Ussishkin, A. P., & Warner, N. (2017). The field is not the lab and the lab is not the field: Experimental linguistics and endangered language communities. In Community Based Research. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Warner, N., Warner, N., Ussishkin, A. P., Ussishkin, A. P., Hammond, M., Hammond, M., Fisher, M., Fisher, M., Clayton, I., Clayton, I., Archangeli, D. B., Archangeli, D. B., Carnie, A. H., Carnie, A. H., Kloehn, N., Kloehn, N., Meyer, J., & Meyer, J. (2017). The field is not the lab and the lab is not the field: Experimental linguistics and endangered language communities. In Community Based Research. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Ussishkin, A., & Smith, L. (2015). The role of prosodic templates in diachrony and dialects: Prosodically-driven language change. In The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology(pp 262-288). Oxford University Press.
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  Smith, Laura C. and Ussishkin, Adam. To appear. “The role of prosodic templates in diachrony and dialects: Prosodically-driven language change.” With Laura Catherine Smith. In P. Honeybone and J. Salmons, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology.;Your Role: co-author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with external faculty;
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011). Tier segregation. Blackwell.
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  ;Your Role: Author;Full Citation: Ussishkin, Adam. 2011. “Tier segregation.” M. van Oostendorp, C. Ewan, E. Hume and K. Rice, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, 2516-2537.;Electronic: Yes;
• Ussishkin, A. P., & Twist, A. (2009). Auditory and Visual Lexical Decision in Maltese. Benjamins.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: “Auditory and Visual Lexical Decision in Maltese.” With Alina Twist. In B. Comrie, R. Fabri, B. Hume, M. Mifsud, T. Stolz, and M. Vanhove, eds., Introducing Maltese Linguistics: Proceedings of the 1st International conference on Maltese Linguistics. Studies in Language Companion Series. John Benjamins, Philadelphia/Amsterdam, 233-249.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2007). Lexical Access, Effective Contrast, and Patterns in the Lexicon. In Phonology in Perception(pp 267-292). Mouton de Gruyter.
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  Full reference: Lexical Access, Effective Contrast, and Patterns in the Lexicon. S. Hamann and P. Boersma, eds., Phonology in Perception. Phonetics and Phonology Series (A. Lahiri, series editor), Mouton De Gruyter, Amsterdam.;Your Role: co-author;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2007). Morpheme position. Cambridge Unviersity Press.
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  ;Full Citation: Ussishkin, Adam. 2007. Morpheme Position. In P. de Lacy, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology.;

Journals/Publications

• Hammond, M., Chen, Y., Bell, E., Carnie, A. H., Archangeli, D. B., Ussishkin, A. P., & Fisher, M. (2016). Phonological restrictions on lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Language.
• Wedel, A. B., Ussishkin, A. P., & King, A. (2019). Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal: Phonological neutralization targets word-ends over beginnings.. Language, 95(4), e428-e446.
• Wedel, A. B., Ussishkin, A. P., & King, A. (2019). Incremental word processing influences the evolution of phonotactic patterns. Folia Linguistica Historica, 40(1), 231-248. doi:https://doi.org/10.1515/flih-2019-0011
• Hammond, M., Chen, Y., Bell, E., Carnie, A. H., Archangeli, D. B., Ussishkin, A. P., & Fisher, M. (2017). Phonological restrictions on lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Language, 93(2), 446--472. doi:https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2017.0020
• Hammond, M., Chen, Y., Bell, E., Carnie, A. H., Archangeli, D. B., Ussishkin, A. P., & Fisher, M. (2017). Phonological restrictions on lenition in Scottish Gaelic. Language, 93, 446--472.
• Ussishkin, A. P., Warner, N., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Carnie, A. H., Hammond, M., & Fisher, M. (2017). Lexical representation and processing of word-initial Morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation. Laboratory Phonology, 8(1). doi:http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.22
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Warner, N., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Carnie, A. H., Hammond, M., & Fisher, M. (2017). Lexical representation and processing of word-initial Morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation.. Laboratory Phonology.
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  Ussishkin, Adam, Warner, Natasha, Clayton, Ian, Brenner, Dan, Carnie, Andrew, Hammond, Michael, and Fisher, Muriel. 2017. Lexical representation and processing of word-initial Morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 8.
• Ussishkin, A. P., Dawson, C., Wedel, A. B., & Schluter, K. (2015). Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 30(9), 1096-1115. doi:10.1080/23273798.2015.1005635
• Clayton, I. D., Archangeli, D., Brenner, D., Carnie, A., Hammond, M., Ussishkin, A., & Warner, N. (2013). Perception of Scottish Gaelic alternating (leniting) consonants [Poster].
• Hume, E., Hall, K. C., Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A., Adda-Decker, M., & Gendrot, C. (2013). Anti-markedness patterns in French epenthesis: An information-theoretic approach. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Berkeley linguistics society, 37(1).
• Warner, N. L., Clayton, I., Carnie, A., Fisher, M., Brenner, D., Hammond, M., Archangeli, D., & Ussishkin, A. (2013). Perception of Scottish Gaelic alternating (leniting) consonants. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5), 4070--4070.
• Ussishkin, A., Francom, J., & LaCross, A. (2010). How specialized are specialized corpora? Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese. LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation), 421-427.
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• Ussishkin, A. (2009). Laura J. Downing (2006). Canonical forms in prosodic morphology.(Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 12.) Oxford \& New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. x+ 284.. Phonology, 26(02), 363--366.
• Ussishkin, A., & Twist, A. (2009). Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese. Introducing Maltese linguistics, 233--249.
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2009). Lexical access, effective contrast, and patterns in the lexicon. Perception in phonology, 267--92.
• Ussishkin, A., Francom, J., & Woudstra, D. (2009). Creating a Web-based Lexical Corpus and Information-extraction Tools for the Semitic Language Maltese. Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing 2009, 9-16.
• Ussishkin, A. (2006). Semitic morphology: Root-based or word-based?. Morphology, 16(1), 37--40.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2006). Affix-favored contrast inequity and psycholinguistic grounding for nonconcatenative morphology. Morphology.
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  ;Your Role: Sole author;Full Citation: Ussishkin, Adam. 2006 Affix-favored contrast inequity and psycholinguistic grounding for nonconcatenative morphology. Morphology, vol. 16, p. 107-125;
• Ussishkin, A. (2005). A fixed prosodic theory of nonconcatenative templaticmorphology. Natural Language \& Linguistic Theory, 23(1), 169--218.
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2005). Conspriracies of Contrast in Paradigm Structure. OCP-2 Tromso, handout.
• Graf, D., & Ussishkin, A. (2003). Emergent iambs: stress in Modern Hebrew. Lingua, 113(3), 239--270.
• Ussishkin, A. (2003). Templatic effects as fixed prosody: the verbal system in Semitic. AMSTERDAM STUDIES IN THE THEORY AND HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC SCIENCE SERIES 4, 511--530.
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2003). Gestural motor programs account for asymmetries in loanword adaptation patterns. Talk presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2003). Gestural motor programs and the nature of phonotactic restrictions: Evidence from loanword phonology. Proceedings of WCCFL, 22, 505--518.
• Ussishkin, A., & Graf, D. (2002). Loanword Phonology in Modern Hebrew. Workshop on “Integrating foreign words” at the 24 th Annual Meeting of DGfS, 27.
• Ussishkin, A., & Wedel, A. (2002). Neighborhood density and the root-affix distinction. PROCEEDINGS-NELS, 32(2), 539--550.
• Ussishkin, A. (2000). Root-and-pattern morphology without roots or patterns. PROCEEDINGS-NELS, 30, 655--670.
• Ussishkin, A. (1999). Head dominance in Modern Hebrew prosodic morphology. Linguistics Research Center.
• Ussishkin, A. (1999). The inadequacy of the consonantal root: Modern Hebrew denominal verbs and output--output correspondence. Phonology, 16(03), 401--442.
• Ussishkin, A. (1998). Roots and Correspondence: Denominal Verbs in Modern Hebrew.

Proceedings Publications

• Ussishkin, A., Hume, E., Kathleen, C., Adam, U., & Gendrot, C. (2013, Fall). Anti-Markedness Patterns in French Epenthesis: An Information Theoretic Approach. In Berkeley Linguistics Society, 104-123.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Hume, E., Kathleen, C., Adam, U., & Gendrot, C. (2012). Anti-Markedness Patterns in French Epenthesis: An Information Theoretic Approach.
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  ;Your Role: co-author;Full Citation: Proceedings of BLS.;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: international collaborators;

Presentations

• Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Fall). Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphological structure in lexical access. Invited talk. Department of English, Mohammed V University of Rabat, Morocco.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Fall). When morphology is more than mere form. Invited talk. Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Spring). Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access. Invited talk. Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Spring). Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access. Invited talk. Department of Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Summer). Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access. Invited talk. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin.
• Wedel, A. B., & Ussishkin, A. P. (2018, Summer). Phonological grammars evolve to preserve information at word beginnings. LabPhon 16 Satellite Workshop: The role of predictability in shaping human sound systems. University of Lisbon, Portugal: LabPhon 16.
• Hammond, M., Anderson, S., Archangeli, D. B., Bell, E., Brooks, H. L., Carnie, A. H., Ohala, D. K., Ussishkin, A. P., Webb-Davies, P., Wedel, A. B., Hammond, M., Anderson, S., Archangeli, D. B., Bell, E., Brooks, H. L., Carnie, A. H., Ohala, D. K., Ussishkin, A. P., Webb-Davies, P., & Wedel, A. B. (2017, july). Grant ar dreigladau’r Gymraeg: adroddiad interim (Interim report on the grant on the mutations of Welsh). Seminar Ieithyddiaeth y Gymraeg Gregynog. Newtown, Wales.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2016, June). Creating and running auditory masked priming experiments. Invited 3 hour workshop. Department of Linguistics, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2016, June). Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological: Exploring lexical access using auditory masked priming. Invited talk. Department of Linguistics, Univerisity of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2016, June). Maltese Root Priming is Morphological, Not Phonological: Exploring lexical access using auditory masked priming. Invited talk. Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.
• Webb-Davies, P., Hammond, M., Bell, E., Anderson, S., Archangeli, D. B., Brooks, H. L., Carnie, A. H., Ohala, D. K., Ussishkin, A. P., & Wedel, A. B. (2016, Summer). The Arizona-Wales mutation grant: introducing the project. 23ain Seminar Ieithyddiaeth y Gymraeg, Gregynog.
• Webb-Davies, P., Webb-Davies, P., Hammond, M., Hammond, M., Bell, E., Bell, E., Anderson, S., Anderson, S., Archangeli, D. B., Archangeli, D. B., Brooks, H. L., Brooks, H. L., Carnie, A. H., Carnie, A. H., Ohala, D. K., Ohala, D. K., Ussishkin, A. P., Ussishkin, A. P., Wedel, A. B., & Wedel, A. B. (2016, ?). The Arizona-Wales mutation grant: introducing the project. 23ain Seminar Ieithyddiaeth y Gymraeg, Gregynog.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, December). Abstract morphological structure facilitates lexical access: evidence from Semitic using auditory masked priming. Cog Sci Conclave. UA: Cog Sci at UA.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, January). The phonological status of Maltese word patterns: Evidence from auditory priming. LSA Annual Meeting. Portland, OR.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Maltese root priming is morphological, not phonological. University of Edinburgh Linguistics Colloquium. University of Edinburgh.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Maltese templates and vocalic melodies are phonological: Evidence from auditory priming. 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. University of Torino.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Morphological and phonological aspects of Maltese spoken word recognition. University of Cologne Institute for Phonetics colloquium. University of Cologne.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Morphological decomposition in Hebrew spoken word recognition. Newcastle University. Newcastle University.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Morphological priming in Scottish Gaelic initial consonant mutation. Newcastle University. Newcastle University.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, June). Root priming in Maltese: form-based or morphological?. 5th International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. University of Torino.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, May). Maltese root priming is morphological, not phonological. University of York, linguistics colloquium. University of York.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, May). Morphological and phonological aspects of Maltese spoken word recognition. Newcastle University. Newcastle University.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, November). Maltese root priming is morphological, not phonological. University of Souther California, Department of Linguistics colloquium. University of Southern California.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2015, October). Maltese root priming is morphological,not phonological. University of Ottawa. University of Ottawa.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2013, 2013-03-01). Morphological decomposition in Hebrew spoken word recognition. Linguistics Circle, Institute of Linguistics. University of Malta.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2013, May). Morphological Decomposition in Hebrew Spoken Word Recognition. Univ of Wisconsin Judaic Studies and Linguistics Colloquium. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2013, May). Morphological Decomposition in Hebrew Spoken Word Recognition. University of Malta Institute of Linguistics Colloquium. University of Malta.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2013, Septeber). When Morphology Helps but Phonology Hurts. UC Merced Cognitive Science Colloquium. UC Merced: Dept of Cog Sci.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-02-01). Subliminal Speech Priming and Maltese Lexical Access. Dept of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-03-01). Psycholinguistics of under-studied languages: The case of subliminal speech priming in Maltese. Wake Forest University.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-03-01). Subliminal Speech Priming and Maltese Lexical Access. Dept of Psychology, U. of North Carolina.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-05-01). Subliminal speech priming and Maltese lexical access. Univ of Canterbury, Christchurch New Zealand.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-06-01). Maltese psycholinguistics: the state of the art. Inaugural weekend of the Univ of Bremen Maltese Studies Center. University of Bremen, Germany.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-06-01). Maltese spoken word recognition and the structure of the Semitic lexicon. Inauguration of the Malta Centre, University of Bremen. University of Bremen, Germany.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012, 2012-06-01). Subliminal speech priming/auditory masked priming. Univ of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, 2011-03-01). Speech perception and lexical access in Semitic: The case of Maltese. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, 2011-03-01). Speech perception and lexical access in Semitic: The case of Maltese. Workshop on phonology: learnability, acquisition, and processing. University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, 2011-03-01). The contribution of corpus-based research and psycholinguistic experiments to lexical access in Maltese. Arabic Linguistics Symposium. Univ of AZ, Tucson.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, 2011-09-01). Lexical access and two types of priming in Maltese. Basque Center for Brain, Cognition, and Language, Spain.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, 2011-09-01). Lexical access and two types of priming in Maltese. Laboratoire pour les Sciences Cognitives and Psycholinguistiques, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Francom, J. (2011, 2011-01-01). Predicting word frequency effects from corpora: an investigation of corpus size and sampling methods. LSA. Pittsburgh, PA.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Francom, J. (2011, 2011-10-01). Converging methodologies: assessing corpus representativeness through psycholinguistic measures. American Association of Corpus Linguistics. Georgia State University.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Schluter, K. (2011, 2011-01-01). Supraliminal and subliminal root priming in Maltese. LSA. Pittsburgh, PA.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Schluter, K. (2011, 2011-04-01). Supraliminal and subliminal root and binyan priming in Maltese. 3rd International Maltese Linguistics Conference. Valletta, Malta.
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  ;Your Role: principal author;Refereed: Yes;Interdisciplinary: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Ussishkin, A. P., Hume, E., Mailhot, F., Wedel, A., Hall, K. C., Kim, D., Adda-Decker, M., Gendrot, C., & Fougeron, C. (2011, 2011-02-01). Anti-markedness patterns in French deletion and epenthesis: An information-theoretic approach. BLS. UC Berkeley.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Schluter, K., Wedel, A., & Dawson, C. (2011, 2011-01-01). The psychological reality of the consonantal root in Maltese: evidence from supraliminal and subliminal auditory priming. Old World Conference in Phonology 8. Marrakech, Morocco.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2010, 2010-01-01). Lexical access in Maltese and Hebrew: the intersection of corpus linguistics and psycholinguistics. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Word. CUNY Graduate Center.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2010, 2010-10-01). Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition. Arizona Linguistics Circle 4. Univ of AZ, Tucson.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2010, 2010-11-01). Roots and patterns in Maltese spoken word recognition. Ohio State University.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Francom, J., & LaCross, A. (2010, 2010-05-01). How specialized are specialized corpora? Behavioral evaluation of corpus representativeness for Maltese. Language Resources Evaluation Conference. Malta.
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  ;Your Role: Primary author;Submitted: Yes;Refereed: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Other co-author is faculty is Wake Forest Univ.;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2009, 2009-09-01). The PsyCoL Maltese lexical corpus. Second International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. University of Bremen.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & LaCross, A. (2009, 2009-01-01). The root in Semitic languages. Interdisciplinary colloquium speaker, Institute of Linguistics and Department of Maltese. University of Malta.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & LaCross, A. (2009, 2009-09-01). Word frequency and familiarity in Maltese: a psycholinguistic and corpus-based comparison. Second International Conference on Maltese Linguistics. University of Bremen.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Francom, J., & Woudstra, D. (2009, 2009-10-01). Electronic corpora for two Semitic Languages. American Association of Corpus Linguistics. University of Alberta (Edmonton).
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• Ussishkin, A., Francom, J., & Woudstra, D. (2009, 2009-09-01). Creating a web-based lexical corpus and information-extraction tools for the Semitic language Maltese. Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages. University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2008, 2008-02-01). Psycholinguistic evidence for a hybrid model of the Semitic lexicon. UA/ SLAT colloquium series.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2008, 2008-09-01). How often do you visit your relatives? Family size and word frequency in Hebrew lexical access.. UCSC Linguistics Alumni Conference. UC Santa Cruz.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & LaCross, A. (2008, 2008-12-01). A Hybrid Model of the Semitic lexicon: Psycholinguistic Evidence. Tel-Aviv University Dept of Linguistics.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & LaCross, A. (2008, 2008-12-01). Semitic morphology: root-based and word-based. Workshop on the Root. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., Brewer, J., & LaCross, A. (2008, 2008-01-01). Morphological family size in Hebrew auditory lexical decision. LSA Annual Meeting. Chicago.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2007, 2007-03-01). Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew and Maltese.. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2007, 2007-10-01). Experimental evidence for a hybrid theory of lexical access in Semitic. UC San Diego.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Twist, A. (2007, 2007-10-01). Auditory and visual lexical decision in Maltese. First meeting of the International Society of Maltese Linguistics. University of Bremen, Germany.
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• Ussishkin, A. P. (2006, 2006-01-01). Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese. This was an invited colloquium talk.. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Twist, A. (2006, 2006-01-01). Bases of affixation in Semitic: Psycholinguistic evidence from Hebrew and Maltese. LSA Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Twist, A. (2006, 2006-11-01). Lexical access in Semitic: Theoretical and experimental results in Hebrew, Arabic, and Maltese. UA.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Wedel, A. (2006, 2006-01-01). Conspiracies of contrast in paradigm structure. This was an invited colloquium talk.. University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
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• Ussishkin, A. P., & Wedel, A. (2005, 2008-01-01). Conspiracies of contrast in paradigm structure. Old World Conference in Phonology. Tromso, Norway.
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Poster Presentations

• Ussishkin, A. P., Galea, L., & Wray, S. (2015, May). Phonology vs. morphology: How auditory lexical decision in Maltese resolves the conflict. Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of Manchester.

Reviews

• Ussishkin, A. P. (2009. Review of Laura J. Downing, Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology (Oxford University Press).
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Others

• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011). Maltese Electronic Dictionary project: in cooperation with Midsea Books Publishing and the National.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012). Consultant on Dr. Jerid Francom's NEH "digital technologies" grant on Spanish corpus and p.
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  Consultant on Dr. Jerid Francom's NEH "digital technologies" grant on Spanish corpus and psycholinguistics.
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2012). Visiting academic, New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain, and Behavior, University of Canterbury.
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  Visiting academic, New Zealand Institute for Language, Brain, and Behavior, University of Canterbury, May 12 - June 4, 2012
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2011, June). Consultant, Google Summer of Code/Apertium ProjectI consulted with Sagie Maoz on a Maltese and H.
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  Consultant, Google Summer of Code/Apertium ProjectI consulted with Sagie Maoz on a Maltese and Hebrew morphological analyzer. Final report available at: http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Maltese_and_Hebrew/Final_report
• Ussishkin, A. P. (2000). The emergence of fixed prosody.