Email: apetrovic549 [at] gmail [dot] com (contact for full CV)
I am a Ph.D. graduate from Stony Brook University’s Department of Linguistics.
My primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and their interfaces. More specifically, I work on the stress system of Kuikuro (Cariban), morphophonological vowel fronting in Serbo-Croatian, and morphologically conditioned segment insertion in different languages. In my dissertation, I provide a characterization of morphological processes as logical transductions on strings, and focus on the architecture of the morphological module, specifically as it pertains to the interfaces with phonology and syntax.
I am an editor of All Things Morphology: Its independence and its interfaces, with Sedigheh Moradi, Marcia Haag, and Janie Rees-Miller. The volume is dedicated to Mark Aronoff.
I am also a part of the Epenthesis research group led by Lori Repetti. We organized a workshop on epenthesis (and beyond) in September 2021: the program can be found here, and we have also published a volume of selected papers.
Research
The incoherent stress of Kuikuro. With Michael Becker, Bruna Franchetto, Arawa Didi Kuikuro and Yanapa Mehinaku Kuikuro. abstract, handout. accepted, NLLT
Vowel fronting in Serbo-Croatian nominal inflection. CLS 57 Proceedings, 2022, pp. 345–359.
Morphological epenthesis in Serbo-Croatian neuter nouns (co-advised by Mark Aronoff and Jeff Heinz):
- characterized as logical transductions on strings: Morphology, 2023.
- analyzed with PFM: abstract, slides
Where do they belong: Serbo‐Croatian noun stems need leading forms. abstract, poster. manuscript under review
Formalizing syntactically conditioned morphological processes over strings. abstract, slides. manuscript under review
Modeling morphological epenthesis. abstract, slides
Syntactic epenthesis and the Russian N-factor. With John F. Bailyn. abstract, handout
Projects
- What’s in a Song? A music genre classification project, with Subhash Bose and Jonathon Hales. The Erdős Institute Data Science Bootcamp, May 2021
- Fieldwork on Kuikuro, Brazil. With Michael Becker and Bruna Franchetto
- Fieldwork on Istro-Romanian, Croatia. With Michele Loporcaro and Francesco Gardani
Teaching
Primary instructor
- Winter 2024: Introduction to Morphology, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI)
- Summer 2022: LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words, Stony Brook University
- Spring 2022: LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words, Stony Brook University
- Winter 2022: LIN 200 Language in the U.S., Stony Brook University (co-taught with Scott Nelson)
- Fall 2021: LIN 530 Introduction to General Linguistics, Stony Brook University
- Summer 2021: LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words, Stony Brook University
- Fall 2019: LIN 522 Graduate Phonetics, Stony Brook University
- Summer 2019:
- SLAV-S511 Intensive Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I, Indiana University
- SLAV-S512 Intensive Elementary Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II, Indiana University
Teaching assistant
- Fall 2022: LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words, Stony Brook University (Instructor: Andrei Antonenko)
- Winter 2022:
- Introduction to Morphology, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructor: Maria Gouskova)
- Universals in Phonology, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructor: Shanti Ulfsbjorninn)
- Summer 2021:
- Infixation: Typology and Theory, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructor: Laura Kalin)
- What’s a problem in phonology?, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructor: Noam Faust)
- Spring 2021: LIN 110 The Anatomy of English Words, Stony Brook University (Instructor: John F. Bailyn)
- Winter 2021: The Afterlife of a Socialist Military, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructor: Tanja Petrović)
- Fall 2020: LIN 356 Language and Life in Eastern Europe, Stony Brook University (Instructor: John Bailyn)
- Summer 2020: Words and other things: what do you need to list in your head?, St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture (NYI) (Instructors: Asia Pietraszko, Omer Preminger)
- Spring 2020: LIN 431 Structure of an Uncommonly Taught Language, Stony Brook University (Instructor: Daniel Finer)
- Spring 2019: LIN 200 Language in the U.S., Stony Brook University (Instructor: Paola Cépeda)
- Spring–Fall 2018: LIN 201 Phonetics, Stony Brook University (Instructor: Marie Huffman)
- Fall 2017: LIN 355 Language and Life in Brazil, Stony Brook University (Instructor: Michael Becker)
Other
- Winter 2022: North American Computational Linguistics Open (NACLO) practice session, Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), Stony Brook University.
- Summer 2021: Summer Youth Camp in Computational Linguistics (SYCCL) assistant instructor, Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), Stony Brook University.
- Winter 2021: North American Computational Linguistics Open (NACLO) practice session, Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), Stony Brook University.
Professional services
- Reviewer for Morphology, The Linguistic Review (TLR), Glossa, FASL 30 Proceedings, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics (DiaCom)
- SBU Department of Linguistics Graduate programs recruitment video
- SBU Department of Linguistics Graduate student representative (Fall 2020 – Spring 2021)
- SBU Fulbright Campus Committee member (2019)
- SBU Three Minute Thesis competition, moderator (2019)
Membership & Awards
- Slavic Linguistics Society; Charles E. Townsend Award
- President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student, Stony Brook University.