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Overview

Andrew Nevins is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Their research spans several fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics and Language, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics covered in Nevins's scholarly work include:

  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

Nevins has frequently published in venues such as:

  • Revista Linguíʃtica
  • Linguistic Inquiry
  • Revista Linguagem & Ensino
  • JASA Express Letters
  • Sign language studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Nevins include:

  • Observações sobre a estrutura linguística da Cena: a língua de sinais emergente da Várzea Queimada (Piauí, Brasil), 2020, Revista Linguagem & Ensino
  • When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can't, 2021, Linguistic Inquiry
  • Intoxication and pitch control in tonal and non-tonal language speakers, 2022, JASA Express Letters
  • Reiterative Code-Switching: Argument-Marking in Cena, 2023, Sign language studies
  • Comparing Iconicity Trade-Offs in Cena and Libras during a Sign Language Production Task, 2022, Languages

Collaborations have played a notable role in Nevins's research output. Frequent co-authors include Anderson Almeida-Silva, Gesoel Mendes, Diane Stoianov, Mário André Coelho da Silva, and Michael Becker.

Nevins has contributed to book publications with publishers such as Cambridge University Press and BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). Notable book titles include When Minoritized Languages Change Linguistic Theory (2022), which has received multiple citations, and Contemporary research in minoritized and diaspora languages of Europe (2022).

Best Publications

  • Morphotactics: Basque Auxiliaries and the Structure of Spellout

    Andrew Nevins;Karlos Arregi

  • The representation of third person and its consequences for person-case effects

    Andrew Nevins

  • Multiple agree with clitics: person complementarity vs. omnivorous number

    Andrew Nevins

  • Shifty Operators in Changing Contexts

    Pranav Anand;Andrew Ira Nevins

  • Pirahã Exceptionality: A Reassessment

    Andrew Ira Nevins;David Pesetsky;Cilene Rodrigues

  • Locality in Vowel Harmony

    Andrew Nevins

  • The Surfeit of the Stimulus: Analytic Biases Filter Lexical Statistics in Turkish Laryngeal Alternations

    Michael Becker;Nihan Ketrez;Andrew Nevins

  • The Locus of Ergative Case Assignment: Evidence from Scope

    Pranav Anand;Andrew Ira Nevins

  • The Grammars of Conjunction Agreement in Slovenian

    Franc Marušič;Andrew Ira Nevins;William Badecker

  • The role of feature-number and feature-type in processing Hindi verb agreement violations.

    Andrew Ira Nevins;Brian Dillon;Shiti Malhotra;Colin Phillips

  • Derivations without the Activity Condition

    Andrew Ira Nevins

  • Phonologically Conditioned Allomorph Selection

    Andrew Nevins

  • Marked Targets versus Marked Triggers and Impoverishment of the Dual

    Andrew Nevins

  • Metalinguistic, Shmetalinguistic: The Phonology of Shmreduplication

    Andrew Ira Nevins;Bert Vaux

  • Asymmetries in generalizing alternations to and from initial syllables

    Michael Becker;Andrew Nevins;Jonathan Levine

  • Conditions on (dis)harmony

    Andrew Nevins

  • The Role of Contrast in Locality: Transparent Palatal Glides in Kyrghyz

    Andrew Ira Nevins;Bert Vaux

  • Cleaving the Interactions Between Sluicing and Preposition Stranding

    Cilene Rodrigues;Andrew Ira Nevins;Luis Vicente

  • Rules, Constraints, and Phonological Phenomena

    Bert Vaux;Andrew Nevins

  • Evidence and Argumentation: A Reply to Everett

    Andrew Ira Nevins;David Pesetsky;Cilene Rodrigues

  • Obliteration vs. impoverishment in the Basque g-/z- constraint

    Karlos Arregi;Andrew Ira Nevins

  • Rule Application in Phonology

    Morris Halle;Andrew Ira Nevins

  • Variable rules meet Impoverishment theory: Patterns of agreement leveling in English varieties

    Andrew Nevins;Jeffrey K. Parrott

  • Russian Genitive Plurals are Impostors

    John Bailyn;Andrew Ira Nevins

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Phillips
Colin Phillips University of Maryland, College Park
Sharon Peperkamp
Sharon Peperkamp École Normale Supérieure
René Kager
René Kager Utrecht University
Manuel Carreiras
Manuel Carreiras Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
Gereon Müller
Gereon Müller Leipzig University

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