Adam Ussishkin

About Adam Ussishkin

Visit my website at ussishkin.org for up to date information and my current CV. I'm a professor in the Department of Linguistics, with appointments in the UA Cognitive Science program, the UA Second Language Acquisition and Teaching program, the Department of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. My research focuses on the lexicon, and is informed by psycholinguistic experimentation, as well as formal and laboratory phonology and morphology. Much of the research I conduct centers on Semitic languages, especially Maltese and Modern Hebrew. I also work on corpus creation and evaluation.

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• Adam and Andy at University of Oregon

  Linguistics faculty members Adam Ussishkin and Andy Wedel visited the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon April 14-17. In a back-to-back double feature, each of them gave an hour-long colloquium presentation on April 15. Adam spoke... read more

Research Interests

• Phonology
• Morphology
• Psycholinguistics
• Lexical access
• Semitic

Selected Publications

Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., eds.( 2022). Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108807951  

Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., (2022). At the intersection of cognitive processes and linguistic diversity. In Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., eds. Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition, 1-28. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108807951.002  

Wray, S., and Ussishkin, A., (2022). Productivity effects on morphological processing in Maltese auditory word recognition. In Sims, A., Ussishkin, A., Parker, J., and Wray, S., eds. Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition, 56-78. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108807951.004  

Haugen, J., Ussishkin, A., and Dawson, C. (2022). Learning a typologically unusual reduplication pattern: An artificial language learning study of base-dependent reduplication. Morphology, 32:299-315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-022-09396-y  

Wedel, A., Ussishkin, A., and King, A. (2019). Crosslinguistic evidence for a strong statistical universal: Phonological neutralization targets word-ends over beginnings. Language, 95(4): e428-e446. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/743115. 

Ussishkin, A., Warner, N., Clayton, I., Brenner, D., Carnie, A., Hammond, M., and Fisher, M. (2017). Lexical representation and processing of word-initial morphological alternations: Scottish Gaelic mutation. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1), 8. http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.22  

Ussishkin, A., Dawson, C., Wedel, A., and Schluter, K. (2015). Auditory masked priming in Maltese spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 30:1096-1115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1005635