Bruce Tesar is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

1. Characterizing surface orientedness in phonology; 2. Output-driven maps; 3. Output-driven maps in optimality theory; 4. Analysis of constraint behavior; 5. Learning phonotactics; 6. Learning with paradigmatic information; 7. Exploiting output-drivenness in learning; 8. Paradigmatic subsets; 9. Linguistic theory and language learnability.