David R. Mortensen is a new Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, with a PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation was entitled Logical and Substantive Scales in Phonology [PDF]. His research is centered around the diachronic and synchronic phonology and morphology of human languages, especially languages of Southeast Asia. His curriculum vitae is available here.

His recent papers include:

• (2006). “Diachronic universals and synchronic parochialisms: explaining tone-vowel interactions.” ms. University of California, Berkeley/University of Pittsburgh. In preparation for submission. [PDF]
• (2006). “Tonally conditioned vowel raising in Shuijingping Hmong.” Handout from the LSA 80th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 6, 2006. [PDF]
• (2005). “The emergence of obstruents after high vowels: a maladaptive sound change.” ms. University of California, Berkeley. To be submitted. [PDF]
• (2005). “The phonology of coordinate compounds.” ms. University of California, Berkeley. In revision for publication.
• (2004). “Abstract scales in phonology.” [ROA-667-0604]. In revision for publication. [PDF]
• (2004). “The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu” To appear in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. [PDF]
• (2004). “Preliminaries to Mong Leng (Hmong Njua) Phonology” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2004). “The Development of Tone Sandhi in Western Hmongic: A New Hypothesis” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2004). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Submitted: Rose-Marie Déchaine & Martina Wiltschko (eds.), Pronouns as Epiphenomena, Oxford University Press (pre-review version). [PDF]
• (2004). “The emergence of dorsal stops after high vowels in Huishu” Handout from BLS 30, Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2004). “Semper Infidelis: Anti-identity in A-Hmao and Jingpho tone sandhi chains” Handout from LSA Annual Meeting, Boston. [PDF]
• (2003). “Comparative Tangkhul” Unpublished Qualifying Paper, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2003). “Hmong Elaborate Expressions are Coordinate Compounds” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2003). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Handout from UBC Pronouns Workshop. [PDF]
• (2003). “Two Types of Variable Elements in Hmong Anaphora.” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2003). “Post-Verbal Modifiers in Tangkhul.” Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2003). “Chain-shift, schmain-shift: Anti-Identity and Tone Sandhi in Hmong, A-Hmao, and Jingpho.” Handout from TREND 2003. [PDF]
• (2002). “Semper Infidelis: Theoretical dimensions of tone sandhi chains in Jingpho and A-Hmao”. Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PDF]
• (2002). “The morph is a hard mistress: on the convoluted life and origins of Mong Leng quas”. Unpublished, UC Berkeley. [PS] [PDF]
• (2000). “Sinitic loanwords in two Hmong dialects of Southeast Asia”. Unpublished Honors Thesis, Utah State University. [PDF]