Charles Reiss
// Linguist

Academic Positions

• Professor, Program in Linguistics, Concordia University (1995-present; promotion to Associate--June 2000; promotion to Professor--June 2009).
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology. UQAM. 2003-4.
• Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Science, Carleton University. May 1998-present.
• Teacher, 10th Central European Summer School Generative Linguistics, Lublin, Poland (August 2003).
• Teacher, 5th Central European Summer School in Generative Linguistics, Debrecen, Hungary (August 1998).
• Visiting Researcher, Institute of Phonetics, Umeå University (Summer 1997).
• Adjunct Assistant Professor, McGill University (Spring 1996).
• Lecturer, Harvard University Summer School (Summer 1995).
• Research Associate in Phonetics, Computational Linguistics Laboratory, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University (11/94 to 8/95).
• Preceptor, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University (Spring 1995).
• Lecturer, Program in Linguistics, Boston University (1994-95).
• Assistant Head Tutor, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University (1989-1994).
• Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University (1989-1994).
• Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University (Fall 1993).

Education

• Harvard University, Department of Linguistics, Ph.D. (1995).
• Harvard University, Department of Linguistics, M.A. (1989).
• Swarthmore College, Department of Mathematics, B.A. (1985).

Research Projects / Grants / Awards

• SSHRC. Too many solutions: Phonological representation of surface-identical morphemes. 2009-2012.
• SSHRC. Explicit models of phonological computation. 2004-2007.
• SSHRC. Third North American Phonology Conference. 2004.
• SSHRC, MCRI to A.M. di Sciullo, PI. Co-researcher. Asymmetry at the Interfaces. 2004-2009.
• SSHRC. Second North American Phonology Conference.
• Concordia University General Research Fund Grant, Modularity and Interfaces in the Human Language Faculty. (With Mark Hale).
• VRQ--Le traitement de langue naturelle. Co-investigator and supervisor of phonology component. $1.2 million for four years. (PI Anne-Marie di Sciullo, UQAM).
• Asymmetry Project Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Co-investigator. $2 million for five years. (PI Anne-Marie di Sciullo, UQAM).
• Concordia Faculty Teaching Development Grant for project Real World Skills and Intellectual Inquiry, (with Mark Hale) 2000-2001.
• Concordia University Faculty Research Development Program Grant, Computational Approaches to Phonological Acquisition, 1999-2001.
• Concordia University General Research Fund Grant, Computational Aspects of Phonology and Cree Phonology (1995-96, 96-97, 97-98, 98-99).
• Summer Research Travel Grant, Office of the Vice-Dean of Research, Concordia University (1997, 1998).
• Affinity MasterCard Award (Concordia University, with the Linguistics and Modern Languages Student Association), Phonetics in the Linguistics Curriculum (1996-97).
• Eva and Einar Haugen Award for Scandinavian Studies, Scandinavian Forum (1994).
• Hoopes Prize, Harvard University (1994).
• Writing Fellowship, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University (1993).
• Undergraduate Curriculum Innovation Fund, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University (1993).
• Certificate of Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Derek Bok Center, Harvard University (1993).
• Westengard Travel Grant, Harvard University (1993).
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Grant (1993).
• Undergraduate Curriculum Innovation Fund, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Education, Harvard University (1992).
• Westengard Travel Grant, Harvard University (1990).
• Howard Osborn Scholar, Swarthmore College (1984).

Books and Monographs

I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science by Daniela Isac and Charles Reiss. (2008) Oxford University Press.

The Phonological Enterprise Mark Hale and Charles Reiss (2008) Oxford University Press.

Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces edited by Gillian Ramchand and Charles Reiss. (2007) Oxford University Press.

• A theory of assimilation, with special reference to Old Icelandic phonology Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, June 1995.

Articles and Chapters

1. Intermodular explanation in cognitive science: An example from phonology. In press in Pylyshyn Papers, Don Dedrick and Lana Trick, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2008. 17pp.
2. Finite State Machines in Phonology? In press in Phonological Theory: Representations and Architecture, C. Cairns and E. Raimy (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009. 10pp.
3. Constraining the Learning Path Without Constraints, or The OCP and NoBanana. In Rules, Constraints and Phonological Phenomena, A. Nevins & B. Vaux, (eds.) Oxford University Press. 2008.
4. Computing Long-distance Dependencies in Vowel Harmony Biolinguistics 1:28-48 (with F. Mailhot.) Nov. 2007.
5. Microvariation, Variation, and the Features of Universal Grammar. Lingua 117.4. 2007. With Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock.
6. Introduction. In Ramchand & Reiss (see above). 2007. (with Gillian Ramchand.)
7. Modularity in the 'sound' domain. In Ramchand & Reiss (see above). 2007.
8. Vowel Harmony. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ed. Keith Brown. Elsevier. 2006.
9. Subgrouping. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ed. Keith Brown. Elsevier. 2006.
10. Analogy. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Ed. Keith Brown. Elsevier. 2006.
11. Natural classes. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philipp Strazny. New York: Routledge,2005.
12. Rules and constraints. Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Ed. Philip Strazny. New York: Routledge,2005.
13. Romance and something else. Romance Language and Linguistics Theory 2002: 141-162. Edited by R. Bok-Bennema et al.
14. Accepting markednesslessness. Proceedings of Berkeley Linguistics Society 29. Berkeley Linguistics Society : Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: General session and parasession on phonetics sources of phonological patterns : Synchronic and diachronic explanations (February 14-17, 2003): 569-581. 2003.
15. The subset principle in phonology: Why the tabula can't be rasa (with Mark Hale). Journal of Linguistics 39: 219-244. 2003.
16. Deriving the feature-filling / feature-changing contrast: An application to Hungarian vowel harmony. Linguistic Inquiry. 34:199-224. 2003.
17. Towards a theory of fundamental phonological relations. In AM di Sciullo (ed.), Asymmetry in Grammar, Volume 2: Morphology, phonology, acquisition. John Benjamins Press, 221-244. 2003.
18. Language change without constraint reranking. E. Holt, Optimality Theory and Language Change. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2003.
19. Quantification in Structural Descriptions:Attested and Unattested Patterns The Linguistic Review 20. 2003.
20. L2 Evidence for the Structure of the L1 Lexicon. 2001.  International Journal of English Studies 1: 219-239.
21. Optimality Theory from a Cognitive Science Perspective. The Linguistic Review 17 (2000), 291-301.
22. Phonology as cognition (with Mark Hale). In Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues, N. Burton-Roberts, Philip Carr & Gerard Docherty, eds. Oxford University Press. pp. 161-184.
23. Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism: Current trends in phonology (with Mark Hale). Linguistic Inquiry 31: 157-169 (2000).
24. Towards an explanation of analogy. Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph: Indo-European Perspectives (2000).
25. Evaluating the Empirical Basis for Output-Output Correspondence (with Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock), in the Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 23: 137-147, UC-Berkeley (2000).
26. Formal and Empirical Arguments concerning Phonological Acquisition (with Mark Hale), Linguistic Inquiry 29:656-683 (1998).
27. Phonological Underspecification & the Subset Principle (with Mark Hale). Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics, UC-Santa Cruz (1996).
28. What is Output? Output-Output Correspondence in OT Phonology (with Madelyn Kissock and Mark Hale), Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVI, CSLI Publications/Cambridge University Press (1997).
29. What an OT Parser Tells Us about the Initial State of the Grammar (with Mark Hale), in A. Sorace, C. Heycock and R. Shillcock (eds.), Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition, 352-357. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh (1997).
30. How To Parse and How Not To (with Mark Hale), Proceedings of the Northeast Linguistics Society 27:159-170 (1997).
31. The origin of the nn/ð alternation in Old Icelandic. North West European Language Evolution 30:135-158 (1997).
32. Evidence in Phonological Acquisition: Implications for the Initial Ranking of Faithfulness Constraints (with Mark Hale), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Child Language Research Forum, Eve V. Clark (ed.), pp. 143-152. Cambridge University Press (1997).
33. Unifying the Interpretation of Structural Descriptions. Proceedings of West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XV:413-428, CSLI Publications/Cambridge University Press (1997).
34. Deriving an Implicational Universal in a Constrained OT Grammar, Proceedings of Northeast Linguistics Society 26: 303-17. UMass Graduate Linguistics Association, Amherst (1996).
35. The outcome of /lr/ and /nr/ in Old Icelandic. The Linguistic Review 11:329-350 (1994).

Published Reviews

• Review of Siptár, Péter and Miklós Törkenczy,The Phonology of Hungarian.Published electronically on the Linguist List. (2001).
• Review of Iggy Roca (ed.), Derivations and Constraints in Phonology. Journal of Linguistics 35:211-217.
• Review of John Archibald (ed.), Phonological theory and phonological acquisition, Language (1997:838-91).
• Review of Bernhardt, Barbara, John Gilbert and David Ingram (eds.), Proceedings of the UBC International Conference on Phonological Acquisition, published electronically on The Linguist List (1997).
• Review of Anthony Fox, Linguistic Reconstruction: An Introduction to Theory and Method. Language 72:387-92 (1996).

Working Papers / Technical Reports / Software

• Interface for reduplication implementation (Marc Simpson really did it all)
• Waveforms and Spectrograms, Published on the Wolfram Demonstrations Project 2007.
• Vowel features and Natural Classes, 2007.
• Articulation, spectrograms and phonological features of Turkish vowels, 2007.
• The OCP and NoBanana: Philosophical and Empirical Reasons to Ban Constraints from Linguistic Theory. Carleton University Cognitive Science Technical Report 2002-3. Available at http://www.carleton.ca/iis/TechReports/.
• Le traitement de langue naturelle: PHON. VRQ project outline. UQAM. 2001.
• Deriving the feature-filling / feature-changing contrast. VRQ project Technical Report. 2001.
• Working Papers from the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Volume II. Editor, with C. Vallejo. Concordia University. 1999.
• An Unconstrained Theory of UG. In Working Papers from the Department of Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics, Volume II. C. Reiss and C. Vallejo, eds. Concordia University. 1999.
• On the Empirical Basis of Output-Output Correspondence (with Madelyn Kissock and Mark Hale), in University of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (1997:61-75).
• On the Initial Ranking of Faithfulness Constraints in Universal Grammar (with Mark Hale), Working Papers from the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Mark Hale and Catherine Vallejo (eds.), pp. 39-64. Concordia University (1997).
• Underspecification and natural classes, Harvard University Working Papers in Linguistics, 5:128-147, eds. Höskuldur Thráinsson et al.(1995).
• Deriving a phonological universal from optimality theory. Harvard University Working Papers in Linguistics, 4:220-238, Höskuldur Thráinsson et al. (eds.) (1994).
• Syllable structure and assimilation in Old Icelandic. Harvard University Working Papers in Linguistics, 2:191-208, Samuel D. Epstein et al. (eds.) (1993).

Invited Academic Lectures

1. Cognitive Science at Concordia. Cognitio 2009. UQAM.
2. Modeling "backcopying" derivationally. Harvard, April 2009. With Marc Simpson.
3. Formal phonology. FONHISPANIA 2009, Madrid
4. I-Modularity and some -isms of cognitive science. University of Bucharest, 2008.
5. Phonological facts. University of Bucharest, 2008.
6. Phonological Acquisition and the Logic of Innateness. University of Bucharest, 2008.
7. Relating some -isms of cognitive science. Cognitive Science Speaker Series at York University. March 2008.
8. Linguistics for medical personnel. SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Infectious Diseases Unit. October 2007.
9. Vowel Harmony: Phonetic, Phonological and Computational Issues. CUNY Graduate Center. October 2007.
10. A Cellular Automaton Implementation of Vowel Harmony. Concordia Linguistics Students Association. Sep. 21, 2007.
11. Linguistics as cognitive ethology. Science Today Lecture Series. SUNY Oswego. April 2007
12. Phonological Acquisition and Phonological Change. International Conference on Historical Linguistics Montreal. August, 2007.
13. Adjacency as a long-distance relation. Precedence relations in phonology. CUNY Graduate Center. January 2007.
14. Chomsky's Syntactic Structures. Cognition Seminar. Concordia Psychology Dept. Nov. 6, 2006.
15. La nécessité logique de la Grammaire Universelle. Université de Sherbrooke. April 2006.
16. What is a phonological fact? The 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of Manchester, May 2005.
17. Phonology as cognitive science. Zenon Pylyshyn Conference. University of Guelph, 2005.
18. Formal Phonology. 13th Conference of the Student Organisation of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE XIII). Tromsø, Norway. December, 2004.
    
19. Intermodular explanation in cognitive science: An example from phonology. Concordia Cognitive Science Group. Nov. 2004.
20. Discussant at Symposium on Phonological Theory: Representations and Architecture. CUNY Graduate Center. February, 2004.
21. Some issues in substance free phonology. Computational Linguistics at Concordia (CLaC) Research Group. November, 2003.
    
22. Phonology and the study of cognition. Concordia Linguistics students Association Colloquium Series. Oct., 2003.
23. Accepting markednesslessness. Berkeley Linguistics Society Parasession on Phonetics and Phonology. February, 2003.
24. Grammar as computation. Guest lecture in course Language and Brain, Roberto de Almeida, professor. Concordia University, Science College. January, 2003.
25. Subsumption and Distinctness in the Phonology of the Extended Baboon.  UQAM. October 2002.
26. La phonologie sans la phonétique. Université Laval. October 2002.
27. Quantification and  Substance-free Phonology. Kansas University. April 16, 2002.
28. Universaux Sonores et universaux phonologiques. III-ème Journées d'Études Linguistiques. March 21-23, 2002. Nantes, France.
29. The Phonetics and Phonology of the Extended Baboon. Ohio State University.  February 28, 2002.
30. The OCP and NoBanana.  Ohio State University.  March 1, 2002.
31. Perceptual magnets and  phonological features. Workshop on early phonological acquisition,  Carry-le-Rouet, France. October, 2001 (with Mark Hale).
32. OT and phonological acquisition: An evaluation. Workshop on early phonological acquisition,  Carry-le-Rouet, France. October, 2001.
33. Specificity in representations. Linguistics Department, Harvard University. April, 2001.
34. Mentalism, nativism and constructivism--linguistic evidence. Guest lecture in Cognition II, Concordia University Psychology Department. March 2001.
35. Issues in Phonological Theory and Phonological Acquisition. Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, EHESS-CNRS Paris. February, 2001.
36. The innateness hypothesis isn't a hypothesis. Linguistics Department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. December, 2000.
37. Quantification and identity references in phonology: A case study in Universal Grammar. Linguistics Department, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. December, 2000.
38. The implications of a theory of indices and identity in phonology. Linguistics Program Phonology Circle, MIT. November, 2000.
39. Morphological Musings. McGill Syntax and Semantics Group. February 2000.
40. Ambiguity and vagueness. Project on asymmetry, UQAM. February 2000.
41. Against Constraints. McGill Linguistics Department Invited Speaker Series. November 1999.
42. Acquisition and Post-OT Phonology. Phonology 2000: A Symposium. MIT and Harvard. May 1999.
43. Some more misconceptions concerning Optimality Theory. UC Berkeley. May 1998.
44. Analogy and Linguistic Theory. Départment de Linguistique. Université de Québec à Montréal. March 1998.
45. The Logical Necessity of Universal Grammar: Implications for the Acquisition of Phonology. Concordia Linguistics Colloquium Series. March 1998.
46. UG and the phonological learning path. Program in Linguistics, University of California, Davis. February, 1998.
47. Learnability and Acquisition. Panel discussion on phonological acquisition. Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Conference, University of Ottawa, February 1998.
48. How (and Whether) to Acquire an OT Grammar, Université de Montréal / Cercle Linguistique de Montréal (December 1997).
49. Analogy and Optimality Theory. Concordia Linguistics and Modern Languages Student Association Colloquium Series. November 1997.
50. Phonological acquisition and phonological theory, University of California, Berkeley, Linguistics Department (1997).
51. Does Phonology Need Output-Output Correspondence? (with Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock) Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto (1997).
52. Learnability and Representational UG, Stanford Phonology Workshop (1997).
53. Representational UG and the Learnability of Underlying Forms, University of Toronto Linguistics Department (1996).
54. Topics in the acquisition of phonology, University of Connecticut Linguistics Department (1996).
55. The subset principle and the acquisition of the phonological inventory, Linguistics Department, California State University, Fresno (1996).
56. A UG Interpretive Procedure for Structural Descriptions, Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop, McGill University (1996).
57. Phonological acquisition and phonological change, Harvard Symposium on Linguistic Change (1995).

Conference Presentations

1. A Recursive Projection Model of Reduplication. Recursion: Structural Complexity in Language and Cognition, UMASS, May 26-28, 2009. Poster. With Marc Simpson.
2. Reduplication and linearization. Manchester Phonology Workshop 17. University of Manchester, May, 2009. Poster. With Marc Simpson.
3. Reduplication as iterated projection. GLOW 32, Nantes. With Marc Simpson.
4. Reduplication as iterated projection. MOT 2009, Toronto. Poster. With Marc Simpson.
5. Projection feet in reduplication. CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on the Foot, 2009. With Marc Simpson.
6. Categorical skepticism concerning gradience in Hungarian harmonic and disharmonic root vowels. GLOW 2008 Workshop on categorical phonology and gradient facts, March, 2008. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK. With Michael Gagnon, Linnaea Stockall & Alexis Wellwood.
7. The Georgian Lateral Fronting Experiment as a Basis for Rejecting Minimally Specified Rule Formulation, Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Conference, McGill University, March, 2008. With Anna Chigogidze.
8. Modeling Phonological Rules with Simple Programs. New Kind of Science 2007 Poster presentation. 2007. UVM.
9. Scientific Inquiry Beyond the Core Sciences. The Spirit of Inquiry Conference, Concordia University. May 2007. With M. Gagnon, D. Isac and H. Noguchi.
10. Epistemological Remarks on Universal Grammar. With Roberto de Almeida, Mark Hale, Daniela Isac. Biolinguistic Investigations. Santo Domingo, DR, 2007.
11. Against logophoric reflexives in picture NPs. Interface legibility at the edge. Bucharest. June 2006. With Daniela Isac.
12. What is phonology? Fourth North American Phonology Conference. May 2006. With Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock.
13. Underspecification, Markedness and the Acquisition Process. 6e Journées Internationales du Réseau Français de Phonologie. Orléans. June 2004. With Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock.
14. Qu'est-ce qu'une règle possible en phonologie? Colloque sure Fondements relationnels du traitement des langues naturelles. ACFAS 2004. UQAM. With Fred Mailhot.
15. On the form and interpretation of phonological rules. 2004 Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. February 2004. With Fred Mailhot.
16. Immediate constituent analysis in auditory perception: Implications for phonological theory. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 2004, Boston.
17. Precedence and locality in vowel harmony. Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces, UQAM, Oct. 2003. With Fred Mailhot.
18. Universal core syllabification and sonority hierarchy are unnecessary. Les 5emes Colloques du GDR Phonologie, June 2-4, 2003. Montpellier, France.
19. Anti-antigemination: syncope and epenthesis in Telugu. The 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2003. University of Manchester, England. With Madelyn Kissock.
20. Individuals, Properties, and something else. La Représentation du Sens. May 2003. UQAM. With Daniela Isac.
21. A partitive analysis of else. LSA 2003. With Daniela Isac.
22. Stressmatica Stress Generator. LSA 2003. With Sungwon Koo.
23. Romance and something else. Going Romance 16. Groningen, 2002. With Daniela Isac.
    
24. Something else on something else. Northeast Linguistics Society 33, MIT (with Daniela Isac). November, 2002.
25. Phonological accounts of microvariation in pronunciation. GLOW 25. Amsterdam (with Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock). 2002.
26. Constraining the learning path without constraints.  3rd International  Meeting of the Phonology GDR (CNRS). May-June, 2001. Nantes, France.
27. Rich specification at the initial state. 9th Manchester Phonology Meeting.May 2001. University of Manchester, England. [poster]
28. Towards a theory of fundamental phonological relations. Asymmetry Conference. UQAM. May, 2001.
29. Interpreting structural descriptions. Acme Balkanica Conference. Concordia University. April 2001.
30. Homophony and the structure of the lexicon. 2nd International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Montréal. October 18-20, 2000. [poster].
31. Quantification and identity references in phonological processes. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 2001. Washington, DC.
32. Possible and Impossible Conditions on Rules. 4th Utrecht Biannual Phonology Workshop: Typology in phonology. Utrecht, The Netherlands. June 22-23, 2000.
33. Quantification in phonological rules. Les Journées de Phonétique. Université du Québec à Montréal, May 13-14, 2000.
34. Tonal patterns in Fongbe (with Andrea Gormley). Les Journées de Phonétique, Université du Québec à Montréal, May 13-14, 2000.
35. Homophony. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Workshop. University of Toronto and York University. February 2000.
36. Should Output-Output Correspondence be Invoked to Account for Analogy? Xth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1998.
37. Grammar Optimization (with Mark Hale), Xth Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 1998.
38. Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism: Current trends in phonology (with Mark Hale), Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Conference, University of Ottawa, February 1998.
39. Explaining Analogy (with Mark Hale), Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, 1998, New York.
40. What an OT Parser tells us about the Initial State of the Grammar (with Mark Hale), GALA '97, Language Acquisition: Knowledge Representation and Processing, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 1997 [poster].
41. What is Output? Output-output Correspondence in Optimality Phonology (with Madelyn Kissock and Mark Hale), West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics XVI, Seattle, February 1997.
42. Evaluating the Empirical Basis for Output-Output Correspondence (with Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock), Berkeley Linguistic Society 23, Berkeley, February 1997.
43. Empirical Evidence and Output-output Correspondence in Optimality Theory (with Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock),Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology Conference, Toronto, February 1997.
44. Phonological Underspecification & the Subset Principle (with Mark Hale),Western States Conference on Linguistics, Santa Cruz, October 1996.
45. How To Parse and How Not To in OT Phonology (with Mark Hale), Northeast Linguistics Society 27, McGill University, Montréal, October 1996.
46. The Comprehension-Production Dilemma in Child Language (with Mark Hale), What Children Have to Say About Linguistic Theory (WCHSALT), Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 1996.
47. The Subset Principle in Phonological Acquisition (with Mark Hale), Formal Linguistic Society of Mid-America, Ohio State University, May 1996.
48. Phonological Acquisition and the Initial Ranking of Faithfulness Constraints (with Mark Hale), 28th Annual Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, April 1996 [poster].
49. Underspecification and Natural Classes, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics at UC Irvine (1996).
50. Deriving an Implicational Universal in Two Theories of Phonology, Northeast Linguistics Society 26 at Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, MA. (1995).
51. Lexical and Phonological Allomorphy Northeast Linguistics Society 26 (IE workshop) at Harvard/MIT, Cambridge, MA. (1995).
52. Stepwise assimilation and optimality theory, The Derivational Residue in Phonology, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. (1995).
53. A rule ordering paradox in Old Icelandic (with Madelyn Kissock), East Coast Indo-European Conference XIV, Harvard University (1995).
54. Sources of phonological rules, Linguistic Society of America, Boston, MA. (1994).
55. Relative clauses in Old Icelandic and Germanic (with Madelyn Kissock), East Coast Indo-European Conference XII, Cornell University, Ithaca (1993).
56. Old Icelandic maðr: Sound change or analogy? East Coast Indo-European Conference XII, Cornell University, Ithaca (1993).
57. Syllable structure conditions on assimilation, Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop 8, University of Tromsø, Norway. (1992).
58. Root Allomorphy, University of California Third Annual Indo-European Conference (1990).

Other Professional Activities

• Acting Director, Special Individualized Programs, School of Graduate Studies, Concordia. Winter 2009.
• Member of Advisory Committee of the CUNY Phonology Forum
• CLOUT---Concordia Linguistics Outreach Project, cofounder. For partial list of presentations see http://linguistics.concordia.ca/clout/
• CLAM---Cognition of Language and Mathematics---development of math teaching materials based on linguistics; cooperation with high school math program
• Social Science and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant Ajudication Committee Member. 2006
• Advisory Panel Member for National Science Foundation (USA), 2004
• Member of Nominating Committee, Canadian Linguistics Association, 2004
• Reviewer for National Science Foundation (USA), 2008, 2003
• Reviewer for SSHRC Committee for Aid to Research and Transfer Journals, 2001
• Conferences
• Co-organizer of the Fifth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC5), Concordia University. May 2008.
• Co-organizer of the Fourth North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC4), Concordia University. May 2006.
• Co-organizer of the Third North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC3), Concordia University. May 2004.
• Co-organizer of the North American Syntax Conference (NASC), Concordia University. May, 2003.
• Co-organizer of the Second North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC2), Concordia University. April 2002.
• Co-organizer of the Acme Balkanica Conference, Concordia University. April, 2001.
• Co-organizer of the First North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC1), Concordia University. April 2000.
• Guest expert on CBC's C'est la vie (January, 2000).
• Manuscript Referee: Language Acquisition, Linguistic Inquiry, Canadian Journal of Linguistics, Syntax, Laboratory Phonology VII,  International Journal of English Studies,  Journal of Linguistics, Oxford University Press.
• Guest expert on CBC's Radio Noon call-in program. January, 1999.
• PhD students (co-)supervised
• The Structure of Phonological Theory. Bridget Samuels, Harvard University, April 2009.
• Language and cognition in an evolutionary perspective. Linda Cochrane, SIP, Concordia University (in progress)
• External Reader, PhD Committee
• Aspects of the Morphology and Phonology of Phases. Heather Newell, McGill Linguistics.Fall 2008.
• Word learning. Marina Katerelos. , Concordia (Psychology), 2006.
• Memory and Language: Insights from Picture Description and Past Tense Production in a Native and Second Language in Bilingual Alzheimer and Parkinson Patients, Luisa Cameli, Concordia (Psychology), 2006.
• Semitic Morphology and Phonology, Ali Idrissi, UQAM, 2001.
• Acquisition of Québec French Phonology, Yvan Rose, McGill University, 2000.
• Prosodic Domains in Optimality Theory, Dominique Rodier, McGill University, 1998.
• A prosodic theory of prominence and rhythm, Evan Mellander, McGill University, 2002.
• MA theses--(co-)supervisor or reader
• Acquisition of phonological rule systems. Marc Simpson. In progress. Concordia SIP.
• How to Stop Thinking: A Massively Modular Response to the Frame Problem Robert Stephens. 2008. Concordia Philosophy.
• Clause typing in Gascon. Annick Morin. 2006. Concordia SIP.
• Locality in syntax. Frédéric Mailhot. 2005. Concordia SIP.
• Committee Member, Concordia University: Departmental Curriculum, Personnel and Ethics Committees; School of Graduate Studies, Special Independent Programmes Advisory Board and Admissions Board; Faculty Computing Resources Committee.

Courses Taught

 Clinton County Correctional Facility, Dannemora NY

• Workshop on Linguistics and Cognitive Science for Teaching Staff
• Language and Human Nature (one day seminar for inmates in GED program)

 Concordia University

• Introduction to Linguistics
• Syntax
• Graduate Seminar on Phonological Theory
• Graduate Seminar on Cognitive Science
• Language and Mind: The Chomskyan Program
• Seminar on Formal Semantics
• Linguistic Field Methods
• Introduction to Cognitive Science
• Phonological Analysis
• Language Acquisition
• Structure of a Native American Language
• Theories of Grammar
• Comparative Romance Linguistics
• Descriptive and Instrumental Phonetics
• Non-Indoeuropean Language Structures
• Comparative Phonetics of French and English
• Morphology
• Psycholinguistics
• Morphosyntax
• Advanced Phonology
• Historical Linguistics

• Cognition and Language

• Linguistics and Cognitive Science
• Phonological Theory and Phonological Acquisition
• Phonological Acquisition

• Linguistic Field Methods

• Introduction to Phonetics
• Historical Linguistics

• Freshman Expository Writing
• Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (Summer School)

• Phonological Theory

Contact

Charles Reiss
Linguistics Program
Concordia University
H663	
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., W.
Montréal, Québec
H3G 1M8 Canada
(514) 848-2424 x2310 (office)
(514) 848-2424 x8679 (fax)
reiss(at)alcor(dot)concordia(dot)ca