His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of
phonology,
historical linguistics, and
cognitive science. Along with colleague
Mark Hale, he is a proponent of substance-free phonology, the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation (see paper "Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism").
In press. Reiss, Charles. Research methods in armchair linguistics.
http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007568 In Oxford Handbook ofphilosophy of linguistics, ed. Gabriel Dupre, Ryan Nefdt, and Kate Stanton. Oxford University Press
2022. Reiss, Charles. Priority union and feature logic in phonology. Linguistic Inquiry 53:199–209
Reiss, Charles, and Veno Volenec. 2022. Conquer primal fear: Phonological features are innate and substance free. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 67:581–610
2022. Grestenberger, Laura, Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner, and Gabriel Z. Pantillon, ed. Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag
2022. Reiss, Charles. Plastics. In Grestenberger et al., 327–330.
2021. Reiss, C. Towards a complete Logical Phonology model of intrasegmental changes. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 107. doi:
https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5886
2021. Reiss, Charles, and Veno Volenec. Naturalism, internalism and nativism: <What> the legacy of The Sound Pattern of English <should be>. In Wiley-Blackwell Companion toChomsky, ed. Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey. Wiley-Blackwell
2020. Volenec, Veno, and Charles Reiss. Formal generative phonology. Radical: A Journalof Phonology 2:1–148
2020. Cuerrier, Ana¨ele, and Charles Reiss. Geminates and vowel laxing in Quebec French. In Proceedings of LSRL 47, ed. Irene Vogel, 66–76. John Benjamins
2020 Reiss, Charles, and Marc Simpson. Reduplication as projection. Revue roumaine delinguistique (Based on work presented at GLOW.)
2019 Bale, Alan, Charles Reiss, and David Ta-Chun Shen. Sets, rules and natural classes: { } vs. [ ]. Loquens 6:e065
2019. Volenec, Veno, and Charles Reiss. The intervocalic palatal glide in cognitive phonetics. In Proceedings of the 49th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society, 255–264
2014 (estimated). Hale, M., Kissock, M., & Reiss, C. An I-Language Approach to Phonologization and Lexification. Chapter 20. The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology. Edited by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons
2012. Towards a bottom-up approach to phonological typology. 2012. In Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on Interfaces, ed. A.M. di Sciullo. John Benjamins. Pages 169-191.
2009. Intermodular explanation in cognitive science: An example from phonology. In Pylyshyn Papers, Don Dedrick and Lana Trick, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009. 17pp.
2008. Constraining the Learning Path Without Constraints, or The OCP and NoBanana. In
Rules, Constraints and Phonological Phenomena, A. Nevins & B. Vaux, (eds.) Oxford University Press. 2008.
^de Lacy, Paul (2009) Mark Hale & Charles Reiss, The phonological enterprise. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xii+292.Journal of Linguistics, 45: 719-724