Publications (by area; preprint versions available as pdf files)

Syllable Weight and stress

A perceptually-driven account of onset-sensitive stress, 2005, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 595-653 (pdf)

Syllable weight: phonetics, phonology, typology, 2006, Routledge. (http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?sku=&isbn=9780415976091&parent_id=&pc=/shopping_cart/search/search.asp?search%3Dmatthew%2Bgordon)

Positional weight constraints in Optimality Theory, 2004, Linguistic Inquiry 35, 692-703 (pdf)

Syllable weight, 2004, in Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade (eds.), Phonetic Bases for Phonological Markedness, pp. 277-312. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pdf)

Weight-by-positon adjunction and syllable structure, 2002, Lingua 112, 901-931 (pdf)

A factorial typology of quantity insensitive stress, 2002, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 20, 491-552(pdf), Typology with References (pdf), Factorial Typology Outputs (pdf)

A phonetically-driven account of syllable weight, 2002, Language 78, 51-80 [also in UCLA Working Papers in Phonology 2 (pdf)] Appendices: Appendix 1 (pdf), Appendix 2 (pdf), Appendix 3 (pdf)

Syncope induced metrical opacity as a weight effect, 2001, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 20, 206-19 (pdf)

A typology of contour tone restrictions, 2001, Studies in Language 25, 405-444 (pdf)

Re-examining default-to-opposite stress, 2000, Berkeley Linguistics Society 26, 101-112 (pdf)

The tonal basis of final weight criteria, 2000,Chicago Linguistics Society 36 (Main Session), 141-56 (pdf)

The process specific nature of weight: the case of contour tone restrictions, 1998, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 17, 235-49

Syllable weight and the phonetics/phonology interface, 1997, Berkeley Linguistics Society 23, 111-122.

Phonetics and Phonology of Endangered Languages

A phonetic study of final vowel lengthening in Chickasaw [co-authored with Pam Munro], to appear, International Journal of American Linguistics.

Phonetic structures of Turkish Kabardian [co-authored with Ayla Applebaum], 2006, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36(2), 159-186 (pdf)

Émérillon stress: a phonetic and phonological study [co-authored with Françoise Rose, 2006, Anthropological Linguistic 48, 132-168 (pdf)

A phonological and phonetic study of word-level stress in Chickasaw, 2004, International Journal of American Linguistics 70, 1-32 (pdf)

An intergenerational investigation of Hupa stress [co-authored with ed Luna], 2004, Berkeley Linguistics Society 30 (pdf)

The intonational realization of contrastive focus in Chickasaw, 2007, in Topic and Focus: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation, edited by Chungmin Lee, Matthew Gordon, and Chungmin Lee, Springer. (pdf)

The phonology of pitch accents in Chickasaw, 2003, Phonology 20, 173-218. (pdf)

Collecting phonetic data on endangered languages, 2003, 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 207-210. (pdf)

An autosegmental/metrical model of Chickasaw intonation, to appear, in Sun-Ah Jun (ed.), Prosodic Transcription and Typology: a Unified Approach, pp. 301-330. Oxford: Oxford University Press (pdf)

A cross-linguistic acoustic study of fricatives [co-authored with Paul Barthmaier and Kathy Sands], 2002, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 32, 141-174 (pdf)

Chickasaw [co-authored with Pamela Munro and Peter Ladefoged], 2002, Journal of the International Phonetic Association 31, 287-290 (pdf)

Some phonetic structures of Western Apache, 2001, International Journal of American Linguistics 67, 415-448 [co-authored with Brian Potter, John Dawson, Willem de Reuse, Peter Ladefoged] (pdf)

Linguistic aspects of voice quality with special reference to Athabaskan, 2001, Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference, 163-178 (pdf)

Laryngeal timing and correspondence in Hupa, 2001, UCLA Working Papers in Phonology 5, 1-70 (pdf)

Some phonetic structures of Chickasaw, 2000, Anthropological Linguistics 42, 366-400. [co-authored with Pamela Munro and Peter Ladefoged].(pdf)

The intonational structure of Chickasaw, 1999, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 1993-1996 (pdf)

The phonetics of Ndumbea, 1999, Oceanic Linguistics 38, 66-90. [co-authored with Ian Maddieson] (pdf).

Chickasaw intonation: a descriptive study, 1999, Proceedings from the 2nd Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, 53-67.

The phonetic structures of Hupa, 1996, UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 93, 164-187.

The phonetics of Paici, 2004, [co-authored with Ian Maddieson], Oceanic Linguistics 43, 296-310 (pdf).

Notes on the phonetics of Sele, with particular attention to vowels, 1996, UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 93, 149-163. [co-authored with Ian Maddiesion].

Phonation

Phonation types: a cross-linguistic overview, 2001, Journal of Phonetics 29, 383-406. [co-authored with Peter Ladefoged] (pdf).

Linguistic aspects of voice quality with special reference to Athabaskan, 2001, Proceedings of the 2001 Athabaskan Languages Conference, 163-178 (pdf)

The phonetics and phonology of non-modal vowels: a cross-linguistic perspective, 1998, Berkeley Linguistics Society 24, 93-105 (pdf).

Balto-Finnic Languages

The “neutral” vowels of Finnish: How neutral are they?, 1999, Linguistica Uralica 35, 17- 21 (pdf).

A fortition-based approach to Balto-Fennic-Sámi consonant gradation, 1998, Folia Linguistica Historica 18, 49-79 (pdf).

Phonetic correlates of stress and the prosodic hierarchy in Estonian, 1997, in Ross, J. and Ilse Lehiste (eds.). Estonian Prosody: Papers from a Symposium, pp. 100-24. Tallinn: Institute of Estonian Language. (pdf)

The effect of stress and prosodic phrasing on duration, acoustic amplitude and air flow of nasals in Estonian, 1996, UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 92, 151-159.

Edited volume

Topic and Focus: Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Meaning and Intonation, 2007, Springer [co-edited by Chungmin Lee, Matthew Gordon, and Daniel Büring] (http://www.springer.com/west/home?SGWID=4-102-22-173660058-0&changeHeader=true)

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