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Articles

• Milenković, Aljoša. (submitted). “(Hyper)raising in Serbian: Experimental evidence and theoretical considerations.” PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša and Kevin Ryan. (submitted). “Stress-weight and stress-tone interaction in South Slavic folk meter.” PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2026). “Superadditive cumulativity in categorical prosodic patterns: Prosodic minimality in Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian.” Phonology 43 e4, 1-33. PDF · DOI · replication data · supplementary materials
• Milenković, Aljoša (2025). “Against strict stratum-internal transparency: Within-stratum countershifting in Gallipoli Serbian.” Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 10(1), 1-47. PDF · DOI
• Milenković, Aljoša (2025). “Hyperraising and copy raising are structurally different: experimental evidence from Serbian.” Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 10(1). PDF · DOI · replication data
• Milenković, Aljoša (2024). “Tone-sensitive vowel lengthening in BCMS monosyllables.” Proceedings of the Fifty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 319–330. PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2023). “Towards a more comprehensive theory of tone-stress interaction.” NELS 53(2), pp. 209–218. PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2021). “Optimality Theory in phonology.” (In Serbian) Svet reči 51-52, pp. 8–18. PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2020). “Between semantics and phonological theories: The origin of Proto-Slavic *jìstu u ’that, the same’.” Proceedings of the international conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies and IWoBA XII, Ljubljana 4–7 June 2019, celebrating one hundred years of Indo-European comparative linguistics at the University of Ljubljana. Hamburg: Baar-Verlag, pp. 507–526. Offprint
• Milenković, Aljoša (2019b). “Two etymological reexaminations: ščěpjàti and *velìku/veliku in Lekhitic.” *Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku 62(2), pp. 19–26. PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2019a). “Archaisms and innovations in Polabian phonology: Some comparative remarks.” Anali Filološkog fakulteta 31(1), pp. 311–330. DOI
• Milenković, Aljoša (2018). “Serbo-Croatian krd(o) ‘herd’.” Zbornik Matice srpske za filologiju i lingvistiku 61(2), pp. 7–20. PDF
• Milenković, Aljoša (2017). “Greek einai and gignesthai in the Old Church Slavonic translation of the Gospel of John.” (In Serbian) Lucida intervalla 46, pp. 127–146. url

Theses

• Milenković, Aljoša (in progress). “Metrical grammar: variation, cumulativity, and generalization.” Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University.
• Milenković, Aljoša (2021). “Acoustic correlates of stress in the Kosovo-Resava dialect of Serbian.” (In Serbian) MA Thesis, University of Belgrade. PDF

Selected presentations

See my CV for the comprehensive list.

• Stress-tone-weight interaction in poetic meter: South Slavic folk meter revisited. Talk at AMP 2025, UC Berkeley (with Kevin Ryan, Harvard) slides
• OCP-place beyond phonotactics: sandhi place restrictions in Croatian. Talk at the 31st Manchester Phonology Meeting. slides
• Hyperraising and copy raising are structurally different: against the unified base-generation account. Talk at CLS 61. slides
• Gradient similarity in antigemination: evidence from allomorph selection. Talk at OCP 22, University of Amsterdam. slides
• Inversion and remorphologization in the Šatrovački language game. Talk at RFP 2024, Université de Picardie à Amiens (with Andrew Nevins, UCL). slides
• Stratification is not enough: Within-stratum countershifting in Gallipoli Serbian. Talk at FASL 33, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. slides
• Sonority thresholds and phonological change: Presonorant Lengthening in BCMS revisited. Talk at ESHP 6, The University of Edinburgh. slides
• How powerful is too powerful? Constraint conjunction in weighted constraint grammar and its typological consequences. Talk at AMP 2023, Johns Hopkins University (Zoom). slides