Research
I am primarily interested in phenomena that shed light on the structure and origins of the phonological component of grammar, especially in the realms of psychophonology (language games, speech errors, acquisition of first, second, and toy languages, development of writing systems), historical linguistics (sound change, reconstruction, evolution of language, Indo-European, Altaic, and Northwest Caucasian languages), and sociolinguistics (dialectology, microvariation, and nanovariation). I also enjoy working with native speakers to document endangered languages, especially dialects of Armenian, Abkhaz, and English.
Publications
Vaux, B. (forthcoming) The Armenian dialect of New Julfa, Isfahan. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vaux, B. and Nevins, A. (2008). Rules and Constraints in Contemporary Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vaux, B., Cooper, J. and Tucker, E. (2006). Linguistic Field Methods. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Vaux, B. (1998). The Phonology of Armenian. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vaux, B. (1998). The Laryngeal Specifications of Fricatives. Linguistic Inquiry 29.3:497-512.
Publications (from Symplectic)
2024
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/lv.23049.hop
2023
Doi: 10.1017/S0025100320000390
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1121/10.0016845
2022
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2022.9
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.013274
2019 (Accepted for publication)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.99.032305
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/128/28003
2015
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/tlr-2014-0028
2012
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Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0952675705000667
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2024
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198826804.013.72
2023
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791126.003.0002
2020
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1002/9781119540618.ch18
2018 (No publication date)
Doi: http://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.70755
2018
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506734-009
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9781501506734-009
2017 (Published online)
Doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935345.013.55
2017
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9781315675428
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1075/la.241.04vau
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110523874-021
2016
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199573776.013.8
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Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405184236.2011.x
Doi: 10.1002/9781444343069.ch22
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199553426.003.0005
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2008

Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226511.001.0001
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226511.003.0002
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2006
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-044854-2/02158-1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4324/9780203641682
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Doi: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8177018
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Doi: http://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199226511.001.0001