Dr. Ezer Rasin

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Linguistics Department at Tel Aviv University. I completed my PhD in Linguistics at MIT in 2018. I have a BSc in Mathematics and Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics, both from Tel Aviv University. Before joining Tel Aviv University as a faculty member, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the graduate program "Interaction of Grammatical Building Blocks" (IGRA) at Leipzig University.

My main research areas are phonology, morphology, language acquisition and learnability, and computational linguistics.

• Ezer Rasin and Athulya Aravind. The Nature of the Semantic Stimulus: The Acquisition of Every as a Case Study. Natural Language Semantics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-020-09168-6
• Ezer Rasin, Itamar Shefi, and Roni Katzir. 2020. A Unified Approach to Several Learning Challenges in Phonology. In Asatryan, Mariam, Song, Yixiao, and Whitmal, Ayana (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 50, vol. 3, pp. 73-87.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. 2020. A Conditional Learnability Argument for Constraints on Underlying Representations. Journal of Linguistics, 56(4), 745-773. https:/doi.org/10.1017/S0022226720000146
• Ezer Rasin and Radan Nasrallah. 2020. Feeding-Duke-of-York Derivations in Nazarene Arabic and Their Implications for Phonological Architecture. Ms., Leipzig University and TAU.
• Ezer Rasin. 2020. Evidence Against Sonority-Driven Stress in Nanti. In Baird, Maggie and Pesetsky, Jonathan (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 49, vol. 3, pp. 59-72.
• Ezer Rasin, Nur Lan, and Roni Katzir. 2019. Simultaneous Learning of Vowel Harmony and Segmentation. In Jarosz, G., Nelson, M., O'Connor, B., and Pater, J. (eds.), Proceedings of SCiL 2019, vol. 2, pp. 353-357.
• Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur lan, and Roni Katzir. 2018. Learning Rule-Based Morpho-Phonology. Ms.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. 2018. Learning Abstract Underlying Representations from Distributional Evidence. In Hucklebridge, S. and Nelson, M., editors, Proceedings of NELS 48, pp. 283–290.
• Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur Lan, and Roni Katzir. 2018. Learning Phonological Optionality and Opacity from Distributional Evidence. In Hucklebridge, S. and Nelson, M. (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 48, pp. 269–282.
• Itai Bassi and Ezer Rasin. 2018. Equational-Intensional Relative Clauses with Syntactic Reconstruction. In Uli Sauerland and Stephanie Solt (eds.), Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 22, vol. 1, ZASPiL 60, pp. 143–159. ZAS, Berlin.
• Ezer Rasin. 2017. The Stress-Encapsulation Universal and Phonological Modularity. Ms, MIT.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. On Evaluation Metrics in Optimality Theory. Linguistic Inquiry 47:2. [code]
• Ezer Rasin. 2016. Morpheme Structure Constraints and Blocking in Nonderived Environments. Ms.
• Ezer Rasin. 2016. Two Types of Resumptive Pronouns: A Minimal Account of Hebrew Interpretive Asymmetries. In Andrew Lamont and Katerina Tetzloff (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 47, vol. 3, pp. 25–34.
• Ezer Rasin. 2016. Indexed Roots: On the Representation of Roots in Israeli Hebrew Verbal Morphophonology. In Gonen, Einat (ed.), Researching Spoken Hebrew, Teuda 27, pp. 275-294. [in Hebrew]
• Ezer Rasin. 2015. A Rule-Ordering Theory of Blocking in Nonderived Environments. In Hansson, Gunnar Ólafur, Farris-Trimble, Ashley, McMullin, Kevin and Pulleyblank, Douglas (eds.), Supplemental Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting on Phonology. Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. 2015. Compression-based Learning for OT is Incompatible with Richness of the Base. In Thuy Bui and Deniz Özyıldız (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 45, vol. 2, pp. 267–274

• Ezer Rasin and Jochen Trommer. Iterativity in Phonology (slides). Workshop on Iterativity in Grammar, Leipzig University, December 2–3, 2019.
• Ezer Rasin, Itamar Shefi, and Roni Katzir. A Unified Approach to Several Learning Challenges in Phonology. Talk, NELS 50, MIT, October 25–27, 2019.
• Ezer Rasin and Jochen Trommer. Allomorph Selection and Phonology are Ordered: Evidence from a New Universal, The 27th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, May 25–27, 2019.
• Ezer Rasin. A Candidate for a Universal Constraint on the Interaction of Phonological Processes. Talk, Micro-Workshop on Accent, Leipzig University, January 29, 2019.
• Ezer Rasin. Feeding-Duke-of-York Derivations in Arabic and Their Architectural Consequences. Talk, OCP 2019, University of Verona, January 16–18, 2019.
• Ezer Rasin. Morphosyntactic Structure Reveals Stress Universals in Nanti. Talk, NELS 2018, Cornell University, October 5–7, 2018.
• Ezer Rasin. The Stress-Encapsulation Universal and Phonological Modularity. Rutgers University, November 17, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur Lan, and Roni Katzir. Rule-based Learning of Phonological Optionality and Opacity. Talk, NELS 2017, University of Iceland, October 27–29, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. Learning Abstract URs from Distributional Evidence. Poster, NELS 2017, University of Iceland, October 27–29, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. Information Encapsulation and the Architecture of Phonology. Stony Brook University, October 6, 2017.
• Aron Hirsch and Ezer Rasin. An Evolutionary Effect of Simplicity Bias on the Typology of Logical Operators. Poster, MIT Workshop on Simplicity in Grammar Learning, MIT, September 23, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. Minimum Description Length Subsumes Free Ride Effects in UR Learning. Poster, AMP 2017, NYU, September 15–17, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin, Iddo Berger, Nur Lan, and Roni Katzir. Acquiring Opaque Phonological Interactions Using Minimum Description Length. Poster, AMP 2017, NYU, September 15–17, 2017.
• Itai Bassi and Ezer Rasin. Intensional-Functional Relative Clauses with Syntactic Reconstruction. Talk, Sinn und Bedeutung 22, University of Potsdam, September 7–10, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. An Argument for Severing Stress from Phonology. Colloquium, Tel Aviv University, June 29, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. An Argument for Severing Stress from Phonology. Colloquium, Leipzig University, May 24, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. The Stress-Encapsulation Universal and Phonological Modularity. Talk, GLOW 2017, Leiden University, March 14–17, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. Predictions of a Phonological Architecture with Stress Encapsulation. Talk, The Interface Within Workshop, GLOW 2017, Meertens Institute, March 13, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin and Athulya Aravind. The Nature of the Semantic Stimulus: Quantifier Learning as a Case Study. LFRG, MIT, March 1, 2017.
• Ezer Rasin. Resumptive Pronouns Across Components: Evidence from Hebrew. Poster, NELS 47, UMass Amherst, October 14–16, 2016.
• Ezer Rasin. The Stress-Encapsulation Universal and Phonological Modularity. Talk, NAPhC 9, Concordia University, May 7–8, 2016.
• Ezer Rasin. Phonological Architecture and Blocking in Nonderived Environments. Poster, NELS 46, Concordia University, October 16–18, 2015.
• Ezer Rasin. Constraints on Underlying Representations and Blocking in Nonderived Environments. Poster, AMP 2015, UBC, October 9–11, 2015.
• Ezer Rasin and Roni Katzir. A Learnability Argument for Constraints on Underlying Representations. Poster, NELS 45, MIT, October 31-November 2, 2014.
• Ezer Rasin and  Roni Katzir. An Evaluation Metric for Optimality Theory. NECPhon 2013, MIT, October 26, 2013.
• Ezer Rasin and  Roni Katzir. An Evaluation Metric for Optimality Theory. LLCC Seminar, HUJI, May 21, 2013.

Fall 2020/2021:

• 0627.4067 Opacity and Phonological Architecture
• 0627.3641 The Phonology-Morphology Interface