Publications

Akinlabi, Akinbiyi and Nick Danis. In press. “Nonlinear representations.” To appear in Adam Jardine and Paul de Lacy (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 2nd edition.

Danis, Nick and Adam Jardine. 2019. “Q-Theory Representations are Logically Equivalent to Autosegmental Representations,” Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics: Vol. 2 , Article 5. [doi]
Danis, Nick. 2017. Major place harmony in ABC and the (reduced) role of representation: evidence from Ngbaka. In Karen Jesney, Charlie O’Hara, Caitlin Smith and Rachel Walker (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America. [doi, lingbuzz, ROA-1302]
Danis, Nick. 2017. Markedness and Complex Stops: Evidence from Simplification Processes. In Shigeki Kaji (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th World Congress of African Languages Kyoto 2015, 25–43. Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa. [ROA-1303]
Danis, Nick, Jonathan Barnes, and Catherine O’Connor. 2012. Downstep and Contour Formation in Medumba: A Prosodic Account. In Michael R. Marlo, Nikki B. Adams, Christopher R. Green, Michelle Morrison, and Tristan M. Purvis (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 22-31. [PDF]

Danis, Nick. 2017. Complex place and place identity. PhD Dissertation, Rutgers University. Chair: Akin Akinlabi. [doi, lingbuzz, ROA-1324]
Danis, Nick. 2014. Deriving Interactions of Complex Stops. Ms., Rutgers University. Second Qualifying Paper. Committee: Alan Prince (Chair), Bruce Tesar, Akin Akinlabi. [ROA-1220, ROA-1221 (OTWorkplace Supplement)]
Danis, Nick. 2011. The Phonological Word in Medumba. Ms., Boston University. Master’s project.

Danis, Nick, Kate Mesh, and Hyunsuk Sung (eds.). 2011. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Presentations

Danis, Nick. 2024. Comparing representations: Towards a strong generative capacity for phonology. Invited speaker, RULing 2024, Rutgers University, May 3, 2024. [python supplement]
Danis, Nick. 2023. Comparing representations: Towards a strong generative capacity for phonology. Invited colloquium, GSAS Circles Talk, Harvard University, February 17, 2023.
Danis, Nick. 2022. Comparing phonological representations. Invited keynote, Graduate Linguistics Expo at Michigan State (GLEAMS) 2022. Michigan State University, October 28-29, 2022.

Danis, Nick. 2022. Natural class-preserving transductions among phonological representations. Workshop on Model-Theoretic Representations in Phonology. Stony Brook University, September 22-24, 2022. [supplemental material]
Danis, Nick and Adam Jardine. 2019. Q-Theory Representations are logically equivalent to Autosegmental Representations. SCiL, co-meeting with the LSA 2019.
Danis, Nick. 2016. Major place harmony and the (reduced) role of representation: Evidence from Ngbaka. AMP 2016. USC. October 21-23, 2016.
Danis, Nick. 2016. Cross-category vowel-consonant interactions in Aghem and Vietnamese. Presented at the University of Chicago Phonology Group, May 13, 2016.
Danis, Nick. 2015. Markedness and Complex Segments: Evidence from Simplification Processes. 8th World Congress of African Linguistics. Presented Talk. Kyoto University. August 21, 2015.
Danis, Nick. 2015. A Typology of Complex Segments: Multiple Place Interactions on a Scale. Workshop on Formal Typologies. Rutgers University, May 30, 2015.
Danis, Nick. 2015. Complex Segments Made Simple: Markedness and Doubly-Articulated Stops. 46th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Presented Talk. University of Oregon. March 27, 2015.
Danis, Nick, Jonathan Barnes, and Catherine O’Connor. 2011. Downstep and Contour Formation in Medumba: A Grassfields Bantu Language. 42th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Presented Talk. University of Maryland.

Danis, Nick. 2024. Logical transductions are not sufficient for notational equivalence. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2024. Rutgers University, November 1-3, 2024.
Danis, Nick. 2024. Logical transductions are not sufficient for notational equivalence. Poster presented at the 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 4–5, 2024. (See AMP 2024 link for poster PDF.)
Danis, Nick. 2020. Phonology needs geometry: Implicit axioms in segmental representation. Poster presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the LSA.
Danis, Nick. Cross-category agreement as reference to general dominance. AMP 2018, UC San Diego. Oct 5-7, 2018. Poster. [conf. link]
Danis, Nick, Jeffrey Heinz and Adam Jardine. 2018. How constraints refer to nothing: The correct notion of substructure for phonology. Poster that was present at the 2018 LSA.
Danis, Nick. 2018. A theory of cross-category agreement and new evidence for unified place features. Poster that never made it to the 2018 LSA due to inclement weather. See the AMP 2018 version.
Danis, Nick. 2017. Phonetics of Yoruba vowel deletion: durational evidence for hidden structure. ACAL 48, Indiana University. March 30-April 2, 2017. Poster.

Duggan, Jacob. 2023. Why WUTSL? A Grammar for Wh-Movement and Tier-based Strictly Local Syntax’s Computation Tool. Senior honor’s thesis, Washington University in St. Louis. (primary advisor)
Calhoun, Adrianna. 2021. Invisible Issues: Exploring the Unspoken Rift Between the Black Community and the Field of Speech-Language Pathology. Senior honor’s thesis, Washington University in St. Louis. (reader)
Goldberg, Jack. 2021. Phonological treatment of affricates in Yiddish and segmental analysis. Poster presented at CULC 15. (directed study)
Zhang, Yutong. 2021. A phonological analysis of the word-borrowing process in Volapük. Senior honor’s thesis, Washington University in St. Louis. (primary advisor)
Goldberg, Jack. 2020. Phonological treatment of affricates in Yiddish. Poster presented at Midphon 25. (directed study)