Draga Zec

Professor
Department of Linguistics
Cornell University

Talks

• “The variable vocalic nature of syllabic consonants. ” With Martin Krämer. Manchester Phonology Meeting 27. May 23-25, 2019.
• “Serbian Pitch Accent from a Cross-Dialectal Perspective: Evidence for a Domain Generalization Effect. ” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Manchester Phonology Meeting 27. May 23-25, 2019.
• “On the Morphology of Weight in South Slavic. ” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 28. Stony Brook University, May 3-5, 2019. [Invited Talk]

• “Dialectal Variation in the Realization of Serbian Pitch Accent: Evidence for a Domain-Generalization Effect.” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Poster presented at LabPhon 16, Lisbon, Portugal, 19-22 June, 2018.
• “Syllable codas, consonantal manner and the sonority hierarchy. ” With Martin Krämer. SALT Workshop: A cross-disciplinary workshop on syllable structure and sonority. UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, May 11-12, 2018. [Invited Talk]
• “Loanword specific prosody as minimal constraint re-ranking. ” Manchester Phonology Meeting 26. May 24-26, 2018.
• “ Nasal consonants in syllable phonotactics. ” Fourth Belgrade International Meeting of English Phoneticians (BIMEP 4). March 30-31, 2018. [Invited Talk]
• “Nasal sonority and syllable phonotactics: The dual nasal hypothesis. ” 11th Annual Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium, 29th - 30th April, 2017. [Invited Talk]
• “ Think positive: Manners at the interface to suprasegmental phonology. ” With Martin Krämer. The Interface Within. GLOW Workshop. Meertens Institute, 13 March 2017.
• “Coda Typology, the Sonority Myth, and Positive Markedness. ” With Martin Krämer. OCP14, Düsseldorf, 20-22 February 2017.
• “Interactions between tone and stress: A typology of their convergence and separation.” University of Leipzig, IGRA Colloquium Series. February 1, 2017. [Invited Talk]
• “Deconstructing [continuant] in the coda – a typological survey. ” With Martin Krämer. Manchester Phonology Meeting 24. May 28-30, 2016.
• “Relativized sonority: Nasal adaptivity in syllable phonotactics. ” With Martin Krämer. CUNY Phonology Forum. Conference on Sonority. CUNY, NY. January 14-15, 2016.
• “Tone and stress in loanword phonology: Exceptional prosody or emergence of the unmarked?” Workshop on phonology/syntax interface. The Arctic University of Norway. January 23, 2016.
• “The mysterious double life of nasals in syllable phonotactics and the sonority hierarchy. ” With Martin Krämer. Manchester Phonology Meeting 23. May 28-30, 2015.
• “Tone and stress in loanword phonology. ” Prolegomena to the Prolegomena Workshop, Universiteit Utrecht, May 27, 2015 [Invited talk]
• “Patterning of tone and stress in loanword phonology: the case of Serbian. ” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 24. NYU, May 8-10, 2015.
• “At the right edge: coda segmentism and coda weight. ” Linguistics colloquium. Harvard University. November 14, 2014. [Invited talk]
• “Coda markedness and coerced weight. ” With Martin Krämer. Manchester Phonology Meeting 22. May 29-31, 2014.

• “Getting in the first word: prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian. ” With Molly Diesing. ETI 3, McGill University. 8-11 May, 2014.
• “Hosting second position clitics: the case of Serbian. ” Slavic Semantics Workshop, March 31- April 1, 2014. Bar Ilan University, Israel. [Invited talk ]
• “Coda Sonority Revisited. ” CUNY Phonology Forum. Conference on weight in phonetics and phonology, CUNY, 16-17 January, 2014. [Invited talk]
• “Culminativity effects in the interaction of stress, tone and vowel length. ” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America 2014, 2-5 January, 2014. Minneapolis, MN.
• “Liquid Syllable Nuclei in Slavic: Consonantal or Vocalic?” Universiity of Novi Sad, Serbia. 28 October, 2013. [Invited talk]
• “Tone and stress in hybrid prosodic systems. ” SINFONIJA 6, University of Ni&scaron, Serbia, 26-28 September, 2013. [Invited talk]
• “On consonantal nuclei in Slavic.” Filozofski fakultet, University Novi Sad. October 28, 2013. [Invited talk]
• “The role of prosody in clitic placement.” Workshop on Locality and Directionality at the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface. Stanford University. 12 - 14 October, 2012. [Invited talk]
• “Interactions of lexical tone, non-lexical tone, and prominence in three Neo-&scarontokavian dialects. ” With Elizabeth Zsiga. TIE 5. Oxford University, 6 - 8 September, 2012.
• “Liquid Syllable Nuclei in Slavic: Consonantal or Vocalic?” Formal Approaches to Slavic Languages 21. University of Indiana at Bloomington. 10 - 13 May, 2012.
• “Rima i asonanca u poeziji Laze Kostića. ” [Rhyme and assonance in the poetry of Laza Kostić]. Scholarly meeting on the occasion of 100th anniversary of Laza Kosti ć’s death. 10-11 November, 2010. Belgrade, Serbia.
• “Phonological Consistency and Phonetic Variation: Tonal Alignment in Three Neo-&scarontokavian Dialects. ” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Poster presented at LabPhon 12, University of New Mexico. 8-10 July, 2010.
• “On the Positions of Clitics in Discourse. ” With Molly Diesing. Syracuse University Interface Workshop. 23-24 April, 2010. [Invited talk]
• “Surface variability and underlying consistency in Serbian pitch accent. GLS 2010. Georgetown University. 13 February, 2010. [Invited talk]
• “Interaction of tone and stress in Standard Serbian: phonological and phonetic evidence.” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18. Cornell University. 15 - 17 May, 2009.
• “Contextual Evidence for the Representation of Pitch Accents in Standard Serbian. ” With Elizabeth Zsiga. Poster presented at TIE 3, Universidade de Lisboa, September 15-17, 2008.
• “Clitic placement in Serbian: Corpus and experimental evidence. ” With Diesing, Molly and Du&scaronica Filipović-Djurdjevi ć. International Conference on Linguistic Evidence. University of Tübingen, 31st January to 2nd February 2008.
• “Tone and Stress in Prominence Based Prosodic Systems. ” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 17. Yale University. May 2008.

“Phonology within morphology in South Slavic: the case of OV augmentation. ” Formal Descriptions of Slavic Languages 6.5. University of Nova Gorica. December 1-3, 2006. [Invited talk]

“On the Prosodic Status of Function Words.” 20th Annual Meeting, Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics. Gonda Brain Research Center. Bar-Ilan University, June 23-24, 2004, Tell Aviv, Israel. [Invited talk]

• “South Slavic pitch accent systems: Phonological representations and their phonetic realization.” Workshop on Typology of Tone and Intonation, April 1-3, 2004, Cascais, Portugal. [Invited talk]
• “Multiple Sonority Thresholds.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8. University of Pennsylvania. May 1999. [Invited talk]

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Publications

Diesing, Molly and Draga Zec. 2017. “Getting in the first word: prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. 2 (1):24 1-25. Zec, Draga and Du&scaronica Filipović Djurdjević. 2016. “The role of prosody in clitic placement.” In Gribanova, V. and Shih, S. (eds.) The Morphology-Syntax Phonology Connection. Oxford University Press.

Diesing, Molly and Draga Zec. 2016.“Uticaj sintakse i prozodije na mesto enklitika u re&ccaronenici.” [The impact of syntax and prosody on the sentential placement of enclitics.] In Arsenijević, Boban and Halupka Re&scaronetar, Sabina (eds.) Srpski jezik u savremenoj lingvisti&ccaronkoj teoriji. Filozofski fakultet. Univerzitet u Ni&scaronu.

Zsiga, Elizabeth and Draga Zec. 2013. &3147Contextual Evidence for the Representation of Pitch Accents in Standard Serbian.” Language and Speech 56, 69-104. 2013.

Zec, Draga. 2013. “Syllabic consonants in Slavic. Vocalic or Consonantal?” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 21. Michigan Slavic Publications.

Cooper, Adam I., and Draga Zec. 2013. Syllables. In Mark Aronoff (ed.), Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press. Available at: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199772810/obo-9780199772810-0084.xml.

Tilsen, Sam, Draga Zec, Christina Bjorndahl, Becky Butler, Marie-Josee L’Esperance, Alison Fisher, Linda Heimisdottir, Margaret Renwick, and Chelsea Sanker. 2012. “A cross-linguistic investigation of articulatory coordination in word-initial consonant clusters.” Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

Diesing, Molly and Draga Zec. 2011. “Interface Effects: Serbian Clitics.” In Jeffrey Runner (ed.) Experiments at the Interfaces, Syntax and Semantics Volume 37, Emerald.

Zec, Draga. 2011. “Quantity Sensitivity.“ In van Oostendorp, Marc (ed.) Companion to Phonology. Blackwell.

Zec, Draga. 2011. “Rima i asonanca u poeziji Laze Kostića. ”[Rhyme and assonance in the poetry of Laza Kostić]. Laza Kostić. On the occasion of 100th anniversary of his death. Belgrade, SANU.

Zec, Draga and Elizabeth Zsiga. 2010. “Interaction of tone and stress in Standard Serbian: phonological and phonetic evidence.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 18. Michigan Slavic Publications 2010.

Zec, Draga. 2009. “Tone and Stress in Prominence Based Prosodic Systems.” In Reich, J., Babyonyshev, M. and Kavitskaya, D. (eds.) Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 17. Michigan Slavic Publications.

Zec, Draga. 2009. “Review of Stephen R. Anderson, Aspects of the theory of clitics.” Word Structure 2.1.

Diesing, Molly, Dušica Filipović Djurdjević and Draga Zec. 2009. “Clitic placement in Serbian: Corpus and experimental evidence.” In Featherston, Sam and Susanne Winkler (eds.) The Fruits of Empirical Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter.

Zec, Draga. 2008. “The Prosodic Word as a Unit of Poetic Meter.” In Hanson, K. & S. Inkelas (eds.), The Nature of the Word: Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge, MIT Press.

Zec, Draga. 2008. “O strukturi dveju Rakićevih pesama.” [On the structure of two poems by Rakić]. Knji&zcaronevnost 4: 78-88.

Zec, Draga. 2007. “The Syllable.” De Lacy, P. (ed.) Handbook of Phonology. Cambridge University Press.

Zec, Draga. 2007. “Slogotvorni glasovi u srpskom jeziku.” [Syllabic segments in Serbian] Zbornik matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku 50. Novi Sad.

Zec, Draga. 2006. “Rhythmic Alternation.” In Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Elsevier Press.

Zec, Draga. 2005. “Prosodic Differences among Function Words.” Phonology 22: 77-112.

Miller-Ockhuizen, Amanda and Draga Zec. 2003. “Acoustics of contrastive palatal affricates predict phonological patterning.” Fifteenth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona.

Miller-Ockhuizen, Amanda and Draga Zec. 2003. “Phonetics and phonology of contrastive palatal affricates.” Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 15. 2003.

Zec, Draga. 2003. “Prosodic Weight.” In Féry, C. and R. van de Vijver (eds.). The Syllable in Optimaity Theory. Cambridge University Press.

Zec, Draga. 2003. “O mestu palatalnih afrikata &ccaron, ć i &ccaron, d&zcaron u sistemu glasova srpskog jezika.” (On the place of the palatal affricates &ccaron, ć and &ccaron, d&zcaron in the Serbian sound system). Ju&zcaronnoslovenski filolog 59.

Zec, Draga. 2002. “Constraints on Multiple Feature Occurrence.” In Fanselow, G. and Féry, C. (eds.) Resolving Conflicts in Grammars. Linguistische Berichte. Sonderheft 11.

Zec, Draga. “O strukturi sloga u srpskom jeziku.” [On the structure of Serbian syllables] Ju&zcaronnoslovenski filolog 56/1-2. [Special issue in honor of Pavle Ivić].

Zec, Draga. 2000. “The role of prosody in morphologically governed phonotactic regularities.” Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 14: 249-276. 2000.

Zec, Draga. 2000. “Multiple Sonority Thresholds.” Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics 8. Edited by T. H. King and I. A. Sekerina. Michigan Slavic Publications. Ann Arbor, 382-413.

Zec, Draga. 2000. “Preno&scaronenje akcenta na proklitiku pod uticajem re&ccaroneni&ccaronnog fokusa.” [The shift of word accent to the proclitic induced by sentential focus] Zbornik matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku 43. Novi Sad.

Zec, Draga. 1999. “Footed Tones and Tonal Feet: Metrical Constituency in a Pitch Accent Language.” Phonology 16: 225-264.

Zec, Draga. 1997. “O prozodijskoj strukturi re&ccaroni.” [On the prosodic structure of words] Ju&zcaronnoslovenski filolog 53.

Zec, Draga. 1996. “The Role of Moraic Structure in the Distribution of Segments within Syllables.” In Durand B. and F. Katamba (eds.) New Frontiers in Phonology. Longman, 149-179.

Zec, Draga. 1995. “Sonority Constraints on Syllable Structure.” Phonology 12: 85-129.