Selected Presentations
Invited
Easterday, Shelece. 2023. Can we talk? Bridging the divide between phonological typology and historical phonology. Part 1: Sound change dynamics and Part 2: Phonological (in)stability and initial conditions. Sixth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, December 4 and 5.
Easterday, Shelece. 2023. Complex segment emergence in Amazonia: a crosslinguistic perspective. AMAZONICAS IX, Bogotá, Colombia, June 5.
Easterday, Shelece. 2019. Highly complex syllable structure: A typological study of its characteristics and diachronic development. Opening plenary, 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology, Pavia, Italy, September 4.
Refereed
Easterday, Shelece. 2024. Are primal consonant inventory gaps diachronically stable? Poster presented at the 15th International Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT XV), Singapore, December 5.
Easterday, Shelece, Blaine Billings, & Clemens Mayer. 2024. Emergence of divergent phonotactics in Austronesian: a distributional typological approach. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Manila, Philippines, June 22.
Easterday, Shelece. 2023. Reconsidering favored phonotactic patterns for ejective and implosive consonants. Paper presented at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czechia, August 8.
Easterday, Shelece. 2022. Reconciling diachronic and synchronic accounts of ejectivization. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oxford, United Kingdom, August 2.