- Degenerate feet in phrasal phonology: evidence from Latin and Ancient Greek. Ms., Harvard, 2022. Under review.
- Forthcoming. Syllable weight and natural duration in textsetting popular music in English. English Language and Linguistics, special issue on Verse Structure and Linguistic Modeling.
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. 2022. Vedic Sanskrit vocatives in -an: the case for restoring two endings. Ha! Linguistic studies in honor of Mark R. Hale, eds. Laura Grestenberger, Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner & Gabriel Z. Pantillon. Wiesbaden: Reichert.
- Ryan, Kevin M. & Jeffrey Heath. 2022. Onset prominence in Wubuy reduplication. Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology, eds. Peter Jurgec, Liisa Duncan, Emily Elfner, Yoonjung Kang, Alexei Kochetov, Brittney K. O'Neill, Avery Ozburn, Keren Rice, Nathan Sanders, Jessamyn Schertz, Nate Shaftoe, & Lisa Sullivan. Washington, DC: Linguistic Society of America.
- 2021. The development of diphthongs in Vedic Sanskrit. Journal of the American Oriental Society 141.2: 289-297.
- 2020. VV > VC > V for stress: coercion vs. prominence. Linguistic Inquiry 51.1: 124-40.
- 2019. Prosodic end-weight reflects phrasal stress. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37.1: 315-56.
- 2019. Bole suffix doubling as morphotactic extension. Schuhschrift: Papers in honor of Russell Schuh, eds. Margit Bowler, Philip T. Duncan, Travis Major, & Harold Torrence. University of California: eScholarship Publishing. 139-60.
- 2019. Review of Jeffrey Heinz, Rob Goedemans, and Harry van der Hulst (eds.) (2016). Dimensions of phonological stress. Phonology 36: 180-6.
- 2019. Prosodic weight: categories and continua. Oxford University Press.
- McPherson, Laura & Kevin M. Ryan. 2018. Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs. Language 94.1: 119-156. (supplemental material)
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. 2018. Phonological evidence for pāda cohesion in Rigvedic versification. Language and Meter, eds. Gunkel, Dieter & Olav Hackstein. 34-53. Leiden: Brill.
- 2017. The stress-weight interface in metre. Phonology 34.3: 581-613.
- 2017. Attenuated spreading in Sanskrit retroflex harmony. Linguistic Inquiry 48.2: 299-340.
- 2016. Sanskrit nati: phonetics, morphoprosody, origin and fate. Handout, Harvard Indo-European Workshop.
- 2016. Phonological weight. Language & Linguistics Compass 10: 720-33.
- 2016. Strictness functions in meter. Handout, MIT Phonology Circle.
- Bross, Christoph, Dieter Gunkel, & Kevin M. Ryan. 2015. The colometry of Tocharian 4x15-syllable verse. Tocharian Texts in Context, eds. Melanie Malzahn, Michaël Peyrot, Hannes Fellner, & Theresa-Susanna Illés. 15-28. Bremen: Hempen.
- 2014. Onsets contribute to syllable weight: statistical evidence from stress and meter. Language 90.2: 309-341.
- Bross, Christoph, Dieter Gunkel, & Kevin M. Ryan. 2014. Caesurae, bridges, and the colometry of four Tocharian B meters. Indo-European Linguistics 2: 1-23.
- Gunkel, Dieter & Kevin M. Ryan. 2011. Hiatus avoidance and metrification in the Rigveda. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference, eds. Stephanie W. Jamison, H. Craig Melchert, & Brent Vine. 53-68. Bremen: Hempen.
- 2011. Gradient syllable weight and weight universals in quantitative metrics. Phonology 28.3: 413-454.
- 2010. Variable affix order: grammar and learning. Language 86.4: 758-791.