Publications

Ben Eischens and Ryan T. Bennett (to appear). The Mixtec couplet is not a consistent grammatical unit. At Glossa.

Andrew Hedding, Ben Eischens, Natalia Gracida Cruz, Roselia Durán Cruz, and Juan Gracida Ortiz (to appear). Saá nìkì'vi brecha: Análisis de una narrativa mixteca. At Tlalocan. Audio and a reader-friendly PDF of the story can be found here.

Ben Eischens and Andrew Hedding (2025). San Martín Peras Mixtec An Illustration of the IPA at the Journal of the International Phonetic Association. Accompanying audio files can be downloaded here.

Ben Eischens (2025). Laryngealization and word reduction in Mixtec: Phonetics in phonology At Phonological Data & Analysis.

Ben Eischens (2024). Classifying negated nominals across Mixtec. At International Journal of American Linguistics.

Ben Eischens (2023). Rate-sensitive differences between modal and non-modal vowels in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS).

Nick Van Handel, Dan Brodkin, and Ben Eischens (2023). Constraining subcategory-sensitive Match constraints. In Ito, J. and Mester, A. (eds.) Syntax Prosody in Optimality Theory.

Ben Eischens (2023). Polar question formation in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 25.

Ben Eischens (to appear). Decomposing negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA) 24, edited by Daniel Reisinger. University of British Columbia Working Papers in Linguistics.

Ben Eischens (2020). Negative features in San Martín Peras Mixtec. In Proceedings of the 50th meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS).

Presentations

Ben Eischens and Jahnavi Narkar (2025). La sonoridad de las vocales no modales en el mixteco de San Martín Peras. Simposio internacional de fonología Indoamericana (Sinfonía) I.

Ben Eischens and Jian-Leat Siat (2025). Non-generalization of a phonetically natural pattern in Mixtec tone sandhi. Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2025.

Ben Eischens and Jian-Leat Siat (2025). Una prueba wug de la propagación tonal en el mixteco de San Martín Peras. Encuentro de Lingüística Formal (ELF) VI.

Ben Eischens and Jahnavi Narkar (2024). The production of phonation type in San Martín Peras Mixtec. Sound Systems of Latin America (SSLA) 2024. Diapositivas en español.

Ben Eischens, Eric W. Campbell, Simon Peters, and Inî Mendoza (2024). Tonally-conditioned laryngogenesis in San Martín Peras Mixtec. Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) 2024.

Ben Eischens (2024). Sandhi tonal excepcional en el mixteco de San Martín Peras. Encuentro de Lingüística Formal (ELF) V.

Ben Eischens and Ryan Bennett (2024). The Mixtec couplet is morphologically and prosodically defined. Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) 2024. Diapositivas en español

Ben Eischens (2023). Rate-sensitive differences between modal and non-modal vowels in San Martín Peras Mixtec. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2023.

Ben Eischens (2021). Phonology is phonetically grounded but not phonetically detailed. Annual Meeting of Phonology (AMP) 2021.

Ben Eischens (2021). Polar question formation in San Martín Peras Mixtec. 25th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas.

Ben Eischens (2021). Speech rate in phonology: Word reduction in San Martín Peras Mixtec. Winter Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).

Ben Eischens (2020). Root shortening in Mixtec: Phonetics in phonology. Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020.

Ben Eischens (2020). Decomposing negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec. Winter Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA).

Andrew Hedding and Ben Eischens (2020). Filling in the Gaps: Animacy and Resumption in San Martín Peras Mixtec. LSA 2020 annual meeting.

Ben Eischens (2019). A puzzle of ko-occurrence: negative indefinites in San Martín Peras Mixtec. North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 50.

Ben Eischens, Paula Ledesma, Maxwell Kaplan, Fe Silva-Robles, Kelsey Sasaki, and Maziar Toosarvandani (2019). Nido de Lenguas: Collaborative language education in Monterey Bay's Oaxacan diaspora. First annual Symposium on Linguistic Research with Diaspora Communities.

Ben Eischens (2019). Tonal negation and negative elements in San Martín Peras Mixtec. 24th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas (WSCLA).