Selected publications


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·         Shatzman, Keren, & René Kager (2007). "A role for phonotactic constraints in speech perception",  in J. Trouvain and W. J. Barry (eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1409-1412. Dudweiler, Germany: Pirrot. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (2007), Zoeken naar Woorden. Inaugural speech, Utrecht University. Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht. [pdf]

·         Kager, René, Suzanne van der Feest, Paula Fikkert, Annemarie Kerkhoff, & Tania Zamuner (2007), “Representations of [voice]: Evidence from acquisition”, in J.M. van de Weijer & E.J. van der Torre (eds.), Voicing in Dutch, 41-80. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

·         Kager, René, & Keren Shatzman (2007). "Phonological constraints in speech processing", in B. Los and M. van Koppen (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007, 100-111. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (2007), "Feet and metrical stress", in P. de Lacy (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 195-227. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (2005a), "Rhythmic licensing theory: An extended typology", in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Phonology, 5-31. Seoul: The Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (2005b), The factorial typology of rhythmic licensing constraints, Phonological Studies 5, 47-155. [pdf]

·         Kager, René, Joe Pater, & Wim Zonneveld (2004), “Introduction: constraints in phonological acquisition”, in R. Kager, J. Pater & W. Zonneveld (eds.), Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge University Press. [pdf]

·         Elenbaas, Nine, & René Kager (2003), "Ternary rhythm and the lapse constraint", in J. McCarthy (ed.), Optimality Theory in Phonology. 178-190. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

·         Kager, René (2003), “Intuïtieve syllabificatie bij kinderen: een optimaliteitsmodel”, in G. de Schutter & S. Gillis (eds.), Fonologische Kruispunten: Studies op het Gebied van de Nederlandse Taalkunde. 135-163. Gent: Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde. [pdf]

·         Kager, René, Wim Zonneveld, & Marina Nespor (2003), Editors'preface to Typology in Phonology. Special issue of The Linguistic Review (20.2-4). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. [pdf]

·         Cohan, Jocelyn, Hugo Quené, René Kager, & Sieb Nooteboom (2002), "Heavy constituent extraposition: evidence for parallel processing", in M. Hirotani (ed.) Proceedings of NELS. Amherst, Mass., USA, GLSA. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (2001), Optimality Theory. Chinese edition, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, Beijing.

·         Kager, René & Carlos Gussenhoven (2001), "Introduction: phonetics in phonology", Phonology 18, 1-6.

·         Kager, René (2000), “Stem stress and peak correspondence in Dutch”, in J. Dekkers, F. van der Leeuw, and J. van de Weijer (eds.), Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax, and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1999a), Optimality Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·         Kager, René (1999b), "Surface opacity of metrical structure in optimality theory", in B. Hermans & M. van Oostendorp (eds.), The Derivational Residue in Phonological Optimality Theory, 207-245. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René & Wim Zonneveld (1999a), "Introduction", in R. Kager, H. van der Hulst & W. Zonneveld (eds.), The Prosody-Morphology Interface, 1-38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René & Wim Zonneveld (1999b), "Introduction", in R. Kager & W. Zonneveld (eds.), Phrasal Phonology, 1-34. Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press. [rtf | pdf].

·         Elenbaas, Nine, and René Kager (1999), "Ternary rhythm and the lapse constraint", Phonology 16, 273-329. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1997a), "Rhythmic vowel deletion in Optimality Theory", in I. Roca (ed.), Derivations and Constraints in Phonology, 463-499. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1997b), "Generalized alignment and morphological parsing", Rivista di Linguistica 9, 245-282. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1997c), Book review of Richard Wiese, The Phonology of German, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 1, 55-72. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1996a), "On affix allomorphy and syllable counting", in U. Kleinhenz (ed.), Interfaces in Phonology, 155-171. [Studia Grammatica 41.] Berlin: Akademie Verlag. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1996b), "Stem disyllabicity in Guugu Yimidhirr", in M. Nespor & N. Smith (eds.), Dam Phonology: HIL Phonology Papers II, 59-101. Den Haag: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. [rtf | pdf].

·         Drachman, Gaberell, René Kager, & Angeliki Malikouti-Drachman (1996), "Greek allomorphy: an optimality account", in: M. Dimitrova-Vulchanova & L. Hellan (eds.), Papers from the First Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic Languages, Plovdiv, October 1995, 345-361. [University of Trondheim Working Papers in Linguistics 28.] [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1995a), "The metrical theory of word stress", in J. Goldsmith (ed.), The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 367-402. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

·         Kager, René (1995b), "Consequences of catalexis", in H. van der Hulst & J. van de Weijer (eds.), Dam Phonology: Leiden in Last: HIL Phonology Papers I, 269-298. Den Haag: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1995c), "On foot templates and root templates", in M. den Dikken and K. Hengeveld (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1995, 125-138. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1995d), Book review of Bruce Hayes, Metrical Stress Theory: Principles and Case Studies. Phonology 12, 437-464. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1995e), "Reinventing the paradigm", review article of Luigi Burzio, Principles of English Stress. GLOT International 9/10, 19-21. [rtf | pdf].

·         Kager, René (1994a), "On defining complex templates", in E. Duncan, D. Farkas, & P. Spaelti (eds.), The Proceedings of the Twelfth West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 19-34. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1994b), "Ternary rhythm in alignment theory", unpublished ms. Utrecht University. [Revised version, 1997, in pdf.]

·         Kager, René (1993a), "Alternatives to the iambic-trochaic law", Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 11, 381-432. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1993b), "The moraic iamb", in L. Dobrin, L. Nichols, & R. Rodriguez (eds.), CLS 27: Papers from the 27th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Volume One: The General Session, 291-305. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

·         Quené, Hugo & René Kager (1993), "Prosodic sentence analysis without parsing", in V.J. van Heuven & L.C.W. Pols (eds.), Analysis and Synthesis of Speech: Strategic Research towards High-Quality Text-to-Speech Generation, 115-130. [Speech Research 11.] Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1992a), "Are there any truly quantity-insensitive systems?", in L.A. Buszard-Welcher, L. Lee, & W. Weigel (eds.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 123-132. Berkeley: University of California Press. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1992b), "Shapes of the generalized trochee", in J. Mead (ed.), The Proceedings of the Eleventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 298-312. Stanford: CSLI Publications. [pdf]

·         Quené, Hugo & René Kager (1992), "The derivation of prosody for text-to-speech from prosodic sentence structure", Computer Speech and Language 6, 77-98.

·         Kager, René (1991), "Strict binarity and destressing rules", unpublished ms. Utrecht University.

·         Kager, René (1990), "Dutch schwa in moraic phonology", in M. Ziolkowski, M. Noske and K. Deaton (eds.), CLS 26: Papers from the 26th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Volume 2: The Parasession on the Syllable in Phonetics and Phonology, 241-255. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. [pdf]

·         Kager, René (1989), A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in English and Dutch. [Linguistic Models, 14.] Dordrecht: Foris Publications. [Walter de Gruyter, Berlin.]

·         Kager, René & Ellis Visch (1988), "Metrical constituency and rhythmic adjustment", Phonology 5, 21-71.

·         Kager, René & Wim Zonneveld (1986), "Schwa, syllables, and extrametricality in Dutch", The Linguistic Review 5, 197-221.

·         Den Os, Els & René Kager (1986), "Extrametricality and stress in Spanish and Italian", Lingua 69, 23-48.

Forthcoming publications

·         Kager, René (to appear),  “Stress” in K. Versteegh, M. Eid, A. Elgibali, M. Woidich, & A. Zaborski (eds.), Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics, Volume 4. Leiden: Brill. [2008]

·         Kager, René (to appear), “Lexical irregularity and the typology of contrast”, in K. Hanson & S. Inkelas (eds.), The Nature of the Word: Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [2008] [rtf | pdf]

Volumes edited

·         Coetzee, Andries, Joe Pater & René Kager (eds. 2009), Relations Between Phonological Models and Experimental Data, Special issue of Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·         Kager, René, Joe Pater, & Wim Zonneveld (eds. 2004), Constraints in Phonological Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·         Kager, René, Wim Zonneveld, & Marina Nespor (eds. 2003), Typology in Phonology. Special issue of The Linguistic Review (20.2-4). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

·         Gussenhoven, Carlos, & René Kager (eds. 2001), Phonetics in Phonology. Special issue of Phonology (18.1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·         Kager, René, Wim Zonneveld, & Harry van der Hulst (eds., 1999), The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

·         Kager, René & Wim Zonneveld (eds.,1999), Phrasal Phonology. Nijmegen: Nijmegen University Press.

·         Bezooijen, Renée van & René Kager (eds., 1999), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999. [AVT Publications 16.] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

·         Bezooijen, Renée van & René Kager (eds., 1998), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998. [AVT Publications 15.] Amsterdam: John Benjamins.