Tyler M. Heston
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tyler M. Heston plays a role.
Articles
2023 Variation in the Fataluku voiced coronal (j) Asia-Pacific Language Variation 9:2, pp. 125–155 | Article
This paper represents the first variationist investigation of the voiced coronal phone (j) in Fataluku, a Papuan language of Timor-Leste. Here, we implement the Boruta algorithm at the front end of our analysis pipeline to quantify predictor importance, then use classification trees and… read more
2018 The evolution of word prosody in the Papuan languages of Eastern Timor Diachronica 35:4, pp. 525–551 | Article
Word prosody and sentence-level intonation undergo complex interactions through time. In this study, I focus on the effects of intonation on the development of word prosody in two closely related Papuan languages, Makalero and Fataluku. Though both are very similar segmentally, Makalero’s… read more