Research
My research has two main focuses, prominence-driven processes (in particular positional licensing) and optionality. The items on this page are organized into these two groups, with things that don’t belong in either category at the end. When something addresses both topics, it appears twice.
This page contains published papers and their supplemental materials. For handouts, posters, and slides, see here.
Positional Licensing
Kaplan, Aaron (2008) Licensing and Noniterative Harmony in Lango. Proceedings of NELS 37.
Kaplan, Aaron (2008) Stress is the Trigger of Chamorro Umlaut. In Emily Tummons and Stephanie Lux (eds.), Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 30, 135–149.
Kaplan, Aaron (2011) Harmonic Improvement without Candidate Chains in Chamorro. Linguistic Inquiry 42.4:631–650.
Kaplan, Aaron (2015) Maximal Prominence and a Theory of Possible Licensors. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 33:1235–1270.
Kaplan, Aaron (2016) Long-Distance Licensing in Harmonic Grammar. Proceedings of AMP 2015.
Kaplan, Aaron (2018) Asymmetric Crisp Edge. In Ryan Bennett, Andrew Angeles, Adrian Brasoveanu, Dhyana Buckley, Nick Kalivoda, Shigeto Kawahara, Grant McGuire, and Jaye Padgett (eds.), Hana-bana: A Festschrift for Junko Itô and Armin Mester.
Kaplan, Aaron (2018) Positional Licensing, Asymmetric Trade-Offs, and Gradient Constraints in Harmonic Grammar. Phonology 35.2:247–286.
McCarvel, Miranda & Aaron Kaplan (2019) Positional Faithfulness in Harmonic Grammar. Journal of Linguistics 55:123–159.
Kaplan, Aaron (2019) Overshoot in Licensing-Driven Harmony. Phonology 36.4:605–626.
Kaplan, Aaron (2021) Persistence and Opacity in Eastern Andalusian Harmony. In Ryan Bennett, Richard Bibbs, Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff, Max J. Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Nicholas Van Handel & Maya Wax Cavallaro (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Kaplan, Aaron (2021) Categorical and Gradient Ungrammaticality in Optional Processes. Language 97.4:703-731. Supplemental Materials
Optionality
Kaplan, Aaron (2011) Variation through Markedness Suppression. Phonology 28.3:331–370.
Bayles, Andrew, Aaron Kaplan, & Abby Kaplan (2016) Inter- and Intra-Speaker Variation in French Schwa. Glossa 1.1:19.
Kaplan, Aaron (2016) Local Optionality with Partial Orders. Phonology 33.2:285–324. Supplemental materials
Kaplan, Aaron (2021) Persistence and Opacity in Eastern Andalusian Harmony. In Ryan Bennett, Richard Bibbs, Mykel Loren Brinkerhoff, Max J. Kaplan, Stephanie Rich, Nicholas Van Handel & Maya Wax Cavallaro (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2020 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
Kaplan, Aaron (2021) Categorical and Gradient Ungrammaticality in Optional Processes. Language 97.4:703-731. Supplemental Materials
Other
Kaplan, Aaron (2005) Long-Distance Wh-Movement in Chamorro. In Jeffrey Heinz and Dimitris Ntelitheos (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Austronesian Formal Linguistics Association (AFLA), UCLA Working Papers in Linguistics, 117–130.
Kaplan, Aaron (2006) Vowel Length and Coda Cluster Interactions in Misantla Totonac. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Penn Linguistics Club.
Kaplan, Aaron (2007) The Syllable as Contour Tone Host. Phonology at Santa Cruz 7.
Kaplan, Aaron (2008) Noniterativity is an Emergent Property of Grammar. PhD Dissertation, UC Santa Cruz.
Kaplan, Aaron (2012) Tonal and Morphological Identity in Reduplication. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 32.