Selected Publications

Books

Easterday, Shelece. 2019. Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study. Studies in Laboratory Phonology 9. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/249

Edited volumes

Kuznetsova, Natalia, Cormac Anderson, & Shelece Easterday (eds.). Forthcoming. Rarities in Phonetics and Phonology: Structural, Typological, Evolutionary, and Social Dimensions (Topics in Phonological Diversity). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/415

Moran, Steven, Shelece Easterday, & Eitan Grossman (eds.). 2023. Current Research in Phonological Typology (special issue of Linguistic Typology). Linguistic Typology 27(2). https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/27/2/html

Articles

Easterday, Shelece, & Joan Bybee. 2023. Diachronic phonological typology: Understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics. In Steven Moran, Shelece Easterday, & Eitan Grossman (eds.), Current Research in Phonological Typology (special issue of Linguistic Typology). Linguistic Typology 27(2): 405-427. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2022-0042/html

Bybee, Joan & Shelece Easterday. 2022. Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change 13(1): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10020

Easterday, Shelece, Matthew Stave, Marc Allassonière-Tang, & Frank Seifart. 2021. Syllable complexity and morphological synthesis: A well-motivated positive complexity correlation across subdomains. Frontiers in Psychology 12:638659. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod, Shelece Easterday, & Joan Bybee. 2020. Vowel reduction: a usage-based perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics 32(1): 19-44. doi: 10.26346/1120-2726-146

Bybee, Joan & Shelece Easterday. 2019. Consonant strengthening: a crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal. Linguistic Typology 23(2): 263-302. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2019-0015/html

Book Chapters

Easterday, Shelece. To appear. Diachronic typological universals. In Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É. Kiss, Joseph Salmons, & Alexandra Simonenko (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.

Conference Proceedings

Easterday, Shelece. 2023. Reconsidering favored phonotactic patterns for ejective and implosive consonants. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2941-2945. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/637.pdf