Selected Publications

Books

Easterday, Shelece. 2019. Highly complex syllable structure: A typological and diachronic study. (Studies in Laboratory Phonology 9). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/249

Edited volumes

Kuznetsova, Natalia, Cormac Anderson, & Shelece Easterday (eds.). 2025. Rarities in Phonetics and Phonology: Structural, Typological, Evolutionary, and Social Dimensions (Topics in Phonological Diversity 5). Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/415

Moran, Steven, Shelece Easterday, & Eitan Grossman (eds.). 2023. Current Research in Phonological Typology (special issue of Linguistic Typology). Linguistic Typology 27(2). https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/lity/27/2/html

Journal Articles

Inman, David, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Marine Vuillermet, Kellen Parker Van Dam, Shelece Easterday, Françoise Rose, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kevin Baetscher, Oscar Cocaud-Degrève, Anna Graff, Selma Hardegger, Thomas Huber, Tai Hong, Diana Krasovskaya, Raphaël Luffroy, Nora Muheim, André Müller, Alexandra Nogina, David Perrot, Melvin Steiger, & Balthasar Bickel. 2025. The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas (ATLAs) database. Scientific Data 12: 933. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05169-4

Easterday, Shelece, & Joan Bybee. 2023. Diachronic phonological typology: Understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics. In Steven Moran, Shelece Easterday, & Eitan Grossman (eds.), Current Research in Phonological Typology (special issue of Linguistic Typology). Linguistic Typology 27(2): 405-427. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2022-0042/html

Bybee, Joan & Shelece Easterday. 2022. Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories. Language Dynamics and Change 13(1): 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10020

Easterday, Shelece, Matthew Stave, Marc Allassonière-Tang, & Frank Seifart. 2021. Syllable complexity and morphological synthesis: A well-motivated positive complexity correlation across subdomains. In Kilu Von Prince & Marcin Maria Kilarski (eds.), Motivations for Research on Linguistic Complexity: Methodology, Theory, and Ideology (special issue of Frontiers in Psychology). Frontiers in Psychology 12:638659. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.638659

Kapatsinski, Vsevolod, Shelece Easterday, & Joan Bybee. 2020. Vowel reduction: a usage-based perspective. Italian Journal of Linguistics 32(1): 19-44. doi: 10.26346/1120-2726-146

Bybee, Joan & Shelece Easterday. 2019. Consonant strengthening: a crosslinguistic survey and articulatory proposal. Linguistic Typology 23(2): 263-302. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/lingty-2019-0015/html

Book Chapters

Easterday, Shelece. In press. Phonological typology. In Hilary Nesi & Petar Milinz (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition. Elsevier.

Easterday, Shelece. In press. Diachronic typological universals. In Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É. Kiss, Joseph Salmons, & Alexandra Simonenko (eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics. Wiley Blackwell.

Vuillermet, Marine, David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, Kellen Parker Van Dam, Shelece Easterday, & Françoise Rose. Is there a typological profile of isolates? 2025. In Iker Salaberri, Dorota Krajewska, Ekaitz Santazilia, & Eneko Zuloaga (eds.), Investigating Language Isolates: Typological and Diachronic Perspectives (Typological Studies in Language 135). 22-47. John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.135.01vui

Conference Proceedings

Easterday, Shelece. 2023. Reconsidering favored phonotactic patterns for ejective and implosive consonants. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2941-2945. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/637.pdf

Easterday, Shelece. 2019. Manner of articulation patterns in word-initial biconsonantal sequences: The effect of morphological context. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019. 1124-1127. https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_1173.pdf

Database Contributions

Easterday, Shelece. 2025. Syllable structure. In David Inman, Natalia Chousou-Polydouri, & Marine Vuillermet (eds.), The Areal Typology of Languages of the Americas database, ATLAs (v2025.1). http://atlas.evolvinglanguage.ch/contributions/Syll