
Linguistics & Language Development
San José State University
One Washington Square
San José, CA. 95192 - 0093
USA


Professional Appointments:
• 2012 - present: Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San José State University.
• 2007 - 12: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Language Development, San José State University.
• 2006 - 7: Assistant Professor (Special category / Leave replacement), Department of Linguistics, McGill University.
• 2005 - 6: Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics, New York University.
• 2002: Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.
• 1997 - 2004: Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Cognitive Science Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• 1996: Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Pomona College.
• 1995 - 7: NIH post-doctoral training grant, UCLA Medical Center, Department of Surgery, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Voice Laboratory.
Education:
• Ph.D. in Linguistics, UCLA, 1995. Dissertation title: Phasing and Recoverability.
• M.A. in Linguistics, UCLA, 1991. Thesis title: Level-Ordered Loanword Phonology: Evidence from Cantonese.
• B.A. (cum laude) in Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1985; University of Edinburgh 1983-4.
Publications:
Books:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2012. Neutralization (Rhyme and Reason in Phonology). Series: Key Topics in Phonology. Cambridge University Press. [ISBN hardback 978 0521 19671 0] [ISBN paperback 978 0521 14501 5] [ISBN-10: 052119671X ]
• Silverman, Daniel. 2006. A Critical Introduction to Phonology: of Sound, Mind, and Body. Series: Critical Introductions to Linguistics. London/New York: Continuum Books. [ISBN-10: 0826486614] [ISBN-13: 978-0826486615]
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Phasing and Recoverability. Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. New York: Garland. [ISBN-10: 0815328761] [ISBN-13: 978-0815328766]
• Silverman, Daniel. 1984. Deaf Not Daft: A Reappraisal of Language for the Deaf. Edinburgh: Scottish Workshop Publications. [ISBN-10: B0007BDR52]
Journal Papers:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2012. Mikołaj Kruszewski: theory and vision, Part 2. Language and Linguistics Compass.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2012. Mikołaj Kruszewski: theory and vision, Part 1. Language and Linguistics Compass.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2010. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. Journal of Linguistics 46:453-82.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2006. The diachrony of labiality in Trique, and the functional relevance of gradience and variation. In Louis M. Goldstein, Douglas H. Whalen, and Catherine T. Best, eds., Papers in Laboratory Phonology VIII, Mouton de Gruyter. 133-54.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2004. On the phonetic and cognitive nature of alveolar stop allophony in American English. Cognitive Linguistics 15:69-93.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops. Journal of Linguistics 39:575-98.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Pitch discrimination during breathy versus modal phonation. In John Local, Richard Ogden, and Rosalind Temple, eds., Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge University Press. 293-304.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. Dynamic versus static phonotactic conditions in prosodic morphology, Linguistics 40:28-58.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2000. Hypotheses concerning the phonetic and functional origins of tone displacement in Zulu. Studies in African Linguistics 29.2:3-32.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels. Phonology 14:235-61.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Tone sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. Language 73:473-92.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Phonology at the interface of morphology and phonetics: root-final laryngeals in Chong, Korean, and Sanskrit. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 5:301-22.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1995. Optional, conditional, and obligatory prenasalization in Bafanji. Journal of West African Languages 25:57-62.
• Silverman, Daniel, Barbara Blankenship, Paul Kirk, and Peter Ladefoged. 1995. Phonetic structures in Jalapa Mazatec. Anthropological Linguistics 37:70-88.
• Silverman, Daniel, and Jongho Jun. 1994. Aerodynamic evidence for articulatory overlap in Korean. Phonetica 51:210-20.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1993. Reduplication in Kihehe: the asymmetrical enforcement of phonological and morphological
principles. Linguistic Journal of Korea 18:165-78.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1992. Multiple scansions in loanword phonology: evidence from Cantonese. Phonology 9:289-328.
Chapters in Books:
• Silverman, Daniel. To appear. Summary of Comaltepec Chinantec morpho-phonology. In Jean Léo Léonard, ed, Meso-American Inflectional Morphology.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Usage-based phonology. In Bert Botma, Nancy C. Kula, and Kuniya Nasukawa, eds., Continuum Companion to Phonology. Continuum.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Schwa. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin Ewen, Beth Hume, and Keren Rice, eds., Companion to Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2005. The phonology of Chinantecan. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Publishing House.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Why Comaltepec Chinantec is not different. In Esther Herrera and Pedro Martín Butragueño, eds., La tonía: dimensiones fonéticas y fonológicas Estudios de Lingüistica 4, Mexico. D.F.: El Colegio de México.
Conference Proceedings:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Phonetics and function in diachronic conflict: the case of rising tones. Proceedings of CLS 39. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 690-701.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops. In Mary Andronis, Erin Debenport, Anne Pycha and Keiko Yoshimura, eds., Proceedings of CLS 38. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2000. Dynamic Versus Static Phonotactic Constraints in English Truncation. In Roger Billerey and Brook Daniel.le Lillehaugen, eds., Proceedings of WCCFL XIX. Cascadilla Press. 466-78.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1998. English alveolar stops, and the nature of allophony. Proceedings of NELS 28.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Tone sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. Proceedings of WCCFL XV.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Voiceless nasals in auditory phonology. In J. Johnson, M.T. Juge, and J.L. Moxley, eds., Proceedings of BLS 22.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1994. A case study in acoustic transparency: [spread glottis] and tone in Chinantec. In M. Gonzalez, ed, Proceedings of NELS 24, 559-72.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1991. The representation of English loanwords in Cantonese. Proceedings of the 1991 University of Arizona Phonology Conference.
Book Reviews:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. Review of 'Phonology and Language use' by Joan Bybee, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 31.2:213-16.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. Review of 'Theoretical Aspects of Kashaya Phonology and Morphology' by Eugene Buckley, International Journal of American Linguistics 67.1:92-6.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1998. Review of 'Vowel quality and phonological projection' by Marc van Oostendorp, Glot International 3.3:12-4.
Working Papers:
• Silverman, Daniel. 1995. Phasing and Recoverability. UCLA Dissertation Series 1.
• Silverman, Daniel, Barbara Blankenship, Paul Kirk, and Peter Ladefoged. 1994. Phonetic structures in Jalapa Mazatec. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 87:113-30.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1994. On optional and obligatory prenasalization in Nchufie. In H. Koopman and M. Kural, eds., Aspects of Nchufie grammar, UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics 14:37-46.
• Silverman, Daniel, and Jongho Jun. 1993. Aerodynamic evidence for articulatory overlap in Korean. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics 85:97-112.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1993. Labiality in Mixtecan--a unified treatment. In D. Silverman and R. Kirchner, eds., UCLA Occasional Papers in Linguistics 13:109-23.
Upcoming projects:
• Silverman, Daniel. F-Tube.
• Silverman, Daniel. When you see a fork in the road, take it: binarity, ambiguity, and the origins of linguistic complexity.
• Silverman, Daniel. Licencing licencing by cue.
• Silverman, Daniel. The trills of Northern Hindi.
• Silverman, Daniel. On the typology of laryngeally specified consonants.
Conference Presentations:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2012. Licensing licensing by cue. 20th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2010. Mikołaj Kruszewski in the 21st century. 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Release and reduction: two origins of schwa. 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. 15th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. MOT2007, Ottawa.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2004. The emergence of symmetry/dispersion in a self-organized phonology. 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Phonetics and function in diachronic conflict: the case of rising tones. 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Phonetics and function in diachronic conflict: the case of rising tones. CLS 39.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops. 10th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. On the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. LabPhon 8, Yale University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. On the rarity of pre-aspirated stops. CLS 38.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. On the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. MCWOP 7, University of Iowa.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. On the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. On the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. 9th Manchester Phonology Meeting.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2000. On the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. NELS 31, Poster session on phonetics and phonology. Georgetown University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2000. Dynamic versus static phonotactic constraints account for over-, under-, and regular application in reduplicative and truncatory morphology. WCCFL 19, UCLA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1999. Theories of categorization and their relevance to the acquisition of phonology. Special Workshop, LSA Summer Institute, University of Illinois.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1999. Sound-meaning relations in prosodic morphology, and the fallacy of underspecification. MCWOP 5, Illinois State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1999. On allophonic relations: phonetic similarity or functional identity? GLOW Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, Potsdam.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1998. The plot against Harry: The facts about New York truncation. MCWOP 4, University of Michigan.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1998. Pitch discrimination during breathy versus modal phonation. LabPhon6, York University, UK.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. English alveolar stops, and the nature of allophony. NELS 28, Toronto, Canada.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. English alveolar stops, and the nature of allophony. MCWOP 3, Indiana University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Pitch discrimination during breathy versus modal phonation final results, ASA 134, San Diego, CA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Pitch discrimination during breathy phonation. ASA/ASJ 132, Honolulu, HI.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Towards a conflation of form and function: tone sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. 23rd annual UWM linguistics symposium: functionalism and formalism in linguistics.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Tone sandhi in Comaltepec Chinantec. WCCFL XV, Irvine, CA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Voiceless nasals in auditory phonology. BLS 22, Berkeley, CA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Tone displacement in Zulu, and the maintenance of contrasts. LSA annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1995. Optimal and sub-optimal timing relations among stops, vowels, and vocal fold spreading. NELS 26, Cambridge, MA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1994. Phonology at the Interface of Morphology and Phonetics: on the distinct synchronic origins of creaky vowels in two Mon-Khmer languages. LSA annual meeting, Boston, MA.
• Silverman, Daniel and Jongho Jun. 1994. Aerodynamic evidence for articulatory overlap in Korean. LSA annual meeting, Boston, MA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1993. A case study in acoustic transparency: [spread glottis] and tone in Otomanguean languages. NELS 24, Amherst, MA.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1992. Reduplication in Kihehe: the asymmetrical enforcement of phonological and morphological principles. Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, Seoul, Korea.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1991. Level-ordered loanword phonology: evidence from Cantonese. University of Arizona phonology conference, Tucson, AZ.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1991. English loanwords in Cantonese: the rites of passage. LSA annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Invited Lectures:
• Silverman, Daniel. 2012. When you see a fork in the road, take it: binarity, ambiguity, and the origins of linguistic complexity. University of Edinburgh.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Summary Of Comaltepec Chinantec Morpho-Phonology. University of Paris.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Alternation not Segmentation, University of Canterbury.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Alternation not Segmentation. Hebrew University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2011. Alternation not Segmentation. Ben-Gurion University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2010. Neutralization: Rhyme and Reason In Phonology. Fresno State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2010. Alternation not Segmentation. University of Victoria.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2010. Alternation not Segmentation. Simon Fraser University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Boundary signals: 'reason' over 'rhyme' in phonology. Fresno State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Give my regards to broad 'a'. University of California, Berkeley.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Acoustic dispersion, and the functional relevance of speech variation. Tel Aviv University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. University of California, Los Angeles.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2009. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. University of California, Santa Cruz.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. On sound alternation. Fresno State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Acoustic dispersion, and the functional relevance of speech variation. University of California, Berkeley.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Neutralizing aplosivization and anti-homophony in Korean. University of California, Berkeley.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. Acoustic dispersion, and the functional relevance of speech variation. McGill University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2007. On sound alternation, San José State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2006. Neutralization and anti-homophony in Korean. Concordia University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2005. Timing and Recoverability: Laryngeal and oral speech events. University of Toronto at Scarborough.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2005. On the functional relevance of gradience and variation to the acoustic dispersion of phonological contrasts. University of Toronto.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Labiality in Trique, and the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. University of Kansas.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2003. Labiality in Trique, and the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. University of Minnesota.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. Why Comaltepec Chinantec is not different. El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. Labiality in Trique, and the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. Ohio State University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. Labiality in Trique, and the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. University of Edinburgh.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2002. Why Comaltepec Chinantec is not different. Edinburgh Linguistics Circle, University of Edinburgh.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2001. Labiality in Trique, and the categorical nature of coarticulation and other interpolative gestures. University of Leiden.
• Silverman, Daniel. 2000. The phonology, phonetics, and function of tone displacement in Zulu. Northwestern University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1999. The Phonology, phonetics, and function of tone displacement in Zulu. Invited Plenary Lecture, 30th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of Illinois.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Phasing and recoverability. Colloquium, Speech Research Laboratory, Indiana University.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1997. Phasing and recoverability. Colloquium, Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Phasing and recoverability: laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels. University of Connecticut.
• Silverman, Daniel. 1996. Phasing and recoverability: laryngeal complexity in Otomanguean vowels. University of Pennsylvania.
Laboratory Experience:
• Builder and Head, Phonology Laboratory, San José State University, 2007-present.
• Builder and Head, Phonetics Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2004.
• Member, Voice Laboratory, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, School of Medicine, UCLA, 1995-7.
• Member, Phonetics Laboratory, UCLA, 1989-97.
• Research Assistant to Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, authors of Sounds of the World's Languages, Blackwell, 1995, UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. 1994.
• Research Assistant to Peter Ladefoged and Ian Maddieson, NSF Dying Languages Project, UCLA Phonetics Laboratory. 1993.
Dissertation Committees Chaired:
• Gurevich, Naomi 2003. Lenition and Contrast: The Functional Consequences of Certain Phonetically Conditioned Sound Changes. [Published 2004 in Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics series, Routledge.]
Masters Committees Chaired:
• Arden, Michelle 2010. A Phonetic, Phonological, and Morphosyntactic Analysis of the Mara Language. San José State University. [1st place, CSU Statewide Research Competition, Graduate Humanities and Letters.]


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