Editors & Contributors

General Editors

MARC VAN OOSTENDORP is Senior Researcher at the Department of Variationist Linguistics at the Meertens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Phonological Microvariation at the University of Leiden. He holds an MA in Computational Linguistics and a PhD from Tilburg University.

COLIN J. EWEN is Professor and Chair of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Leiden. He holds an MA in English Language and Linguistics and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. He is editor (with Ellen Kaisse) of the journal Phonology.

ELIZABETH HUME is Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She holds a PhD and MA in linguistics from Cornell University, an MA in French and Social Psychology of Language from McMaster University, and a BA in French from Université Laval.

KEREN RICE is University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds an MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Toronto and a BA in Linguistics from Cornell University.

Contributors

Akinbiyi Akinlabi is Professor of Linguistics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He is the current President of the World Congress of African Linguistics, and serves on the councils of both the West African Languages Congress and the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (USA). His expertise lies primarily in the phonologies of the Benue–Congo languages of West Africa. He has published articles in leading journals of theoretical and descriptive linguistics, including Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Linguistics, and Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. His forthcoming book is titled: Yoruba: A phonological grammar.

Adam Albright is an Associate Professor (Anshen-Chomsky Professorship in Language, and Mind Career Development Chair) at MIT. His research interests include phonology, morphology, and learnability, with an emphasis on using computational modeling and experimental techniques to investigate issues in phonological theory.

Stephen R. Anderson is Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale University. After receiving his Ph.D. from MIT in 1969, he taught at Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins Universities before coming to Yale in 1994. He is the author of numerous articles and six books, including Aspects of the theory of clitics (2005). He has done field research on several languages, most recently the Surmiran form of Rumantsch. In addition to phonology and morphology, his research interests include animal communication systems and the evolution of human language.

Diana Archangeli received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1984. She has been a faculty member at the University of Arizona since 1985 and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2007–8. She co-authored Grounded phonology (1994) with Douglas Pulleyblank, and co-edited Optimality Theory: An overview (1997) with D. Terence Langendoen. She is Director of the Arizona Phonological Imaging Lab, used for ultrasound study of the articulation of language sounds.

Amalia Arvaniti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and has held research and teaching appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Cyprus. Her research focuses on the phonetics and phonology of prosody, with special emphasis on the experimental investigation and formal representation of rhythm and intonation.

Bao Zhiming is a linguist working in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore. He has two main research interests: Chinese phonology and contact linguistics.

Outi Bat-El is Professor of Linguistics at Tel-Aviv University. She is engaged in the study of Semitic phonology and morphology. In her 1994 Natural Language & Linguistic Theory article, she initiated the Semitic root debate, arguing that there is no consonantal root in Semitic morphology. Her subsequent work within the framework of Optimality Theory (Recherches Linguistiques de Vincennes 2003) provided further support to this argument. She has also authored articles on Hebrew truncation (Language 2002) and reduplication (Linguistic Inquiry 2006), on blends (Phonology 1996) and hypocoristics (Phonology 2005), as well as on language acquisition (Language Sciences 2009).

Michael Becker received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009, and is currently a lecturer at Harvard University. His work focuses on the grammatical principles that govern lexicon organization, especially as a way to discover Universal biases in the phonological grammar. He also works on the acquisition and learning of lexical patterns.

Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Manchester. He previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the British Academy, followed by a Lectureship in Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His research focuses on the morphosyntax–phonology and phonology–phonetics interfaces, with particular attention to diachronic issues. His publications include chapters in Optimality Theory and language change (2003), The handbook of English linguistics (2006), The Cambridge handbook of phonology (2007), Deponency and morphological mismatches (2007), Optimality-theoretic studies in Spanish phonology (2007), and Morphology and its interfaces (forthcoming).

Christina Y. Bethin is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, New York, who works on prosody and syllable structure. She has written numerous articles on the diachronic and synchronic phonology of the Slavic languages, including Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, Serbian and Croatian, Czech, and Slovene, and published two award-winning books, Polish syllables: The role of prosody in phonology and morphology (1992) and Slavic prosody: Language change and phonological theory (1998).

Geert Booij is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leiden. He is the author of The phonology of Dutch (1995), The morphology of Dutch (2002), The grammar of words (2005), and Construction morphology (2010), and of a number of linguistic articles in a wide range of Dutch and international journals, with focus on the interaction of phonology and morphology, and theoretical issues in morphology.

Anna R. K. Bosch has taught linguistics at the University of Kentucky since 1990, where she is now Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and a faculty member of the Linguistics Program and English departments. She has written on Scottish Gaelic phonology and dialectology, and is currently working on a new project on the history of phonetic transcription in European dialect studies.

Bert Botma is associate professor at the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics (LUCL) and a research fellow at the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). His main research interest is segmental phonology. He has published on such topics as nasal harmony, English syllable structure, and on the phonological contrast between obstruents and sonorants.

Diane Brentari is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the ASL Program at Purdue University. She has published widely in the area of sign language phonology and morphology. She is the author of A prosodic model of sign language phonology (1998) and editor of Sign languages: A Cambridge language survey (2010). Her current research involves the cross-linguistic analysis of sign languages.

Adam Buchwald is an Assistant Professor at New York University in Communicative Sciences and Disorders. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University and had a post doctoral fellowship in the Speech Research Lab at Indiana University. His work is interdisciplinary and spans topics in linguistics, psycholinguistics, and communication sciences.

Eugene Buckley is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include metrical and syllable structure, and the proper locus of phonetic and functional explanation. Much of his work focuses on native languages of North America.

Luigi Burzio is Professor Emeritus, Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at Harvard University, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. His research interests include syntax, phonology and morphology. He is the author of Italian syntax (1986) and Principles of English stress (1994).

Patrik Bye is currently a researcher with the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. He has published scholarly articles on a variety of topics including the syllable structure, quantity, and stress systems of the Finno-Ugric Saami languages, North Germanic accentology, and phonologically conditioned allomorphy. With Martin Krämer and Sylvia Blaho he edited Freedom of analysis? (2007).

Charles Cairns is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University in 1968. Author of a number of articles in phonology, his most recent work is a co-edited volume with Eric Raimy, Contemporary views on architecture and representations in phonology (2009).

Andrea Calabrese was born in Campi Salentina in the southeastern tip of Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics at MIT in 1988 and is currently teaching at the University of Connecticut. His main interests are phonology, morphology, and historical linguistics. He has published more than 50 articles in books and journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Linguistic Review, Studies in Language, Brain and Language, Journal of Neuro-Linguistics, and Rivista di Linguistica. His recent book, Markedness and economy in a derivational model of phonology (2005), proposes a theory integrating phonological rules and repairs triggered by markedness constraints into a derivational model of phonology.

Roderic F. Casali's interests include phonetics, phonological theory, and descriptive work on the phonology of African languages. His research has focused primarily on vowel phenomena, especially vowel hiatus resolution and ATR vowel harmony. He has done linguistic fieldwork in Ghana with SIL and currently teaches linguistics at the Canada Institute of Linguistics at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia.

Young-mee Yu Cho is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Rutgers University and author of Parameters of consonantal assimilation (1999), Integrated Korean (2000), and Korean phonology and morphology (forthcoming). She has written on Korean language and culture, theoretical linguistics, and Korean pedagogy.

Abigail C. Cohn is Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Her research addresses the relationship between phonology and phonetics and is informed by laboratory phonology approaches. She also specializes in the description and analysis of a number of Austronesian languages of Indonesia. Her published work includes articles in Phonology and a number of edited volumes and she is co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford handbook of laboratory phonology.

Jennifer Cole is Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a member in the Cognitive Science group at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. She is the founding General Editor of Laboratory Phonology, and has served on the editorial boards of the journals Language, Linguistic Inquiry, and Phonology.

Bruce Connell is based at York University, Toronto. His research interests include the phonetics of African languages, the relationships between phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language endangerment and documentation. He makes regular fieldtrips to Africa for research and is an authority on languages in the Nigeria–Cameroon borderland. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1991. His publications include “The perception of lexical tone in Mambila,” Language and Speech 43, and “Tone languages and the universality of intrinsic F0: Evidence from Africa,” Journal of Phonetics 30.

Marie-Hélène Côté is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. Much of her research in phonology relates to the role of perceptual factors in phonological processes, the status of the syllable, and the treatment of variation. She also specializes in French phonology, with a focus on Laurentian (Québec) French.

Onno Crasborn is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Linguistics of Radboud University Nijmegen, where he heads the sign language research theme of the Centre for Language Studies. After completing a dissertation on phonetic variation in Sign Language of the Netherlands (2001) at Leiden University, he has broadened his research interests beyond sign phonetics and phonology to sociolinguistics, discourse, and corpus linguistics. In 2008 he published the Corpus NGT, the first open access sign language corpus in the world.

Megan J. Crowhurst is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications in theoretical phonology have concentrated on prosodic phenomena related to word stress and reduplication. In collaboration with Mark Hewitt, she has also contributed to the literature on constraint conjunction. Her current research, conducted in an experimental paradigm, explores the ways in which humans' perception of rhythm might contribute to the form and frequency of stress patterns found in natural languages.

Stuart Davis is Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University, Bloomington. His primary area of research is in phonology and phonological theory with a secondary area of research in the early history of linguistics in the USA. His work in phonology has especially focused on issues related to syllable structure and word-level prosody. His work has appeared in a wide variety of edited volumes and journals including Linguistic Inquiry, Phonology, Lingua, Linguistics, and American Speech.

Kenneth de Jong is currently Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Second Language Studies at Indiana University. He has worked extensively on questions of how prosodic organization pervades the details of speech production, and more generally how speech production and perception interact with one another and how this relates to the phonological system. He is author of more than 50 articles on aspects of phonetic behavior and is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Phonetics.

Paul de Lacy is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University, an Associate of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, Co-director of the Rutgers Phonetics and Fieldwork Laboratory, and editor of the Cambridge handbook of phonology. He works on phonology and its interfaces with syntax, morphology, and phonetics.

Laura J. Downing is a research fellow at the ZAS, Berlin, leading projects on the phonology–focus–syntax interface in Bantu languages. She has published several articles on tone and depressor tone, morphologically-conditioned morphology, syllable structure and prosodic morphology in Bantu languages, and a book, Canonical forms in prosodic morphology (2006).

B. Elan Dresher is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He has published on phonological theory, learnability, historical linguistics, and West Germanic and Biblical Hebrew phonology and prosody. He is the author of Old English and the theory of phonology (1985) and “Chomsky and Halle's revolution in phonology” in the Cambridge companion to Chomsky (2005). His recent books include Formal approaches to poetry: Recent developments in generative metrics (co-ed., with Nila Friedberg, 2006), Contrast in phonology: Theory, perception, acquisition (co-ed., with Peter Avery and Keren Rice, 2008), and The contrastive hierarchy in phonology (2009).

San Duanmu is Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan, where he has taught since 1991. He obtained his Ph.D. in linguistics from MIT in 1990 and from 1981 to 1986 held a teaching post at Fudan University in Shanghai.

Amanda Dye is a graduate student in Linguistics at New York University. She holds a B.A. in Linguistics from Harvard University. Her past work has focused on theoretical and experimental study of the morphophonology and syntax of mutation in Welsh. Her research interests are in experimental phonology, segmental phonology, the study of Welsh, and the phonology–semantics interface.

Mirjam Ernestus is an Associate Professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Free University Amsterdam in 2000 and then held several postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.

Kathryn Flack Potts received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007. She is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Stanford University.

Stefan A. Frisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Florida. He uses the tools of laboratory phonology to examine frequency effects in the lexicon and in metalinguistic judgments of well-formedness. He is also interested in speech articulation and the use of experimentally elicited speech errors in the study of speech production processes.

Adamantios I. Gafos is an Associate Professor at New York University's Linguistics Department and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories. His interests lie at the intersection of phonology and cognitive science.

Randall Gess is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and French, and Director of the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research interests are in historical phonology, the phonetics–phonology interface, and French and Romance phonology.

Heather Goad is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at McGill University. She works principally on the acquisition of phonology. Her work has been published in Linguistic Review, Lingua, Language Acquisition, and Second Language Research. Her research is currently funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture. She has been an Associate Editor of Language Acquisition since 2004.

Matthew Gordon is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Syllable weight: Phonetics, phonology, typology (2006) and co-editor of Topic and focus: Cross-linguistic perspectives on meaning and intonation (2008). His research focuses on prosody, including stress and intonation, and the phonetic description of endangered languages.

Janet Grijzenhout is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Konstanz and director of the Baby Speech Lab there. Her research focuses on the phonological representation of voicing and stricture, the phonology–morphology interface, infant speech perception, and the acquisition of prosody and morphology.

Naomi Gurevich received a Ph.D. from the Linguistics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2003. The dissertation was published in the Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics Series in 2004 under the title Lenition and contrast: Functional consequences of certain phonetically conditioned sound changes. Recently Naomi's research interests have shifted from theoretical linguistics to neurologically-based language disorders. She is currently working on a clinical certification in Speech Language Pathology.

Carlos Gussenhoven is Professor of General and Experimental Phonology in the Department of Linguistics at Radboud University, Nijmegen and Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film at Queen Mary University of London. One of his research topics is the prosodic structure of English, including word stress and sentence intonation. Other research has focused on stress and tone in a variety of languages, including Dutch, Japanese, Nubi, and a group of Franconian dialects with a lexical tone contrast. Among his publications are The phonology of tone and intonation (2004) and Understanding phonology (1998, 2005).

Gregory R. Guy (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) is Professor of Linguistics at New York University, and has been on the faculty at Sydney, Temple, Cornell, Stanford, and York. He has taught at five Linguistic Institutes of the Linguistic Society of America, and three Institutes of the Associação Brasileira de Lingüística. He specializes in sociolinguistics and phonological variation and change, and works on Portuguese, English, and Spanish. His current research interests include the treatment of variation in linguistic theory, the relationship between individual and community grammars, and the theoretical treatment of grammatical similarity. His books include Towards a social science of language (1996) and Sociolingüística quantitativa (2007).

Daniel Currie Hall received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2007 with a thesis entitled “The role and representation of contrast in phonological theory.” He has taught on all three campuses of the University of Toronto and at Queen's University and worked as a researcher at the Meertens Instituut of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Nancy Hall is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Long Beach. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2003, and has taught at Rutgers University, the University of Haifa, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Roehampton University.

T. A. Hall is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics at Indiana University. He has published widely on a number of topics in general phonological theory and Germanic phonology in journals such as Linguistics, Lingua, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Phonology, Linguistic Review, Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, and Morphology.

Michael Hammond is Professor of Linguistics and Department Head at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 1984. He is the author of numerous books and articles. His research interests are broad, including the metrical theory of stress, Optimality Theory, poetic meter, language games, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, mathematical linguistics, syllable structure, probabilistic phonotactics, English phonology generally, and Welsh.

S. J. Hannahs is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Newcastle University. Co-author of Introducing phonetics and phonology (2005), much of his research has focused on prosodic structure, particularly at the interface between phonology and morphology. His recent and ongoing work has concentrated on the phonology and morpho-phonology of modern Welsh.

John Harris, Professor of Linguistics at University College London, writes on various topics connected with phonology, including phonological theory, the interface with phonetics, language impairment, and variation and change in English. Among his publications are the books Phonological variation and change (1985) and English sound structure (1994).

Jeffrey Heinz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware and has held a joint appointment with the department of Computer and Information Sciences since 2009. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2007 and is keen to help bridge divides between theoretical phonology, computational linguistics, theoretical computer science, and cognitive science.

Ben Hermans is a senior researcher at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. He was trained as a Slavist and Germanicist. In 1994 he defended his thesis “The composite nature of accent” at the Free University. He now focuses on the tonal accents of the Limburg dialects, for example, “The phonological structure of the Limburg tonal accents” (2009), and is particularly interested in their formal representation. He also publishes on the history of the phonology of Dutch and its dialects.

José Ignacio Hualde (Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1988, University of Southern California) is Professor in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of Basque phonology (1991) and The sounds of Spanish (2005), co-author of The Basque dialect of Lekeitio (1994) and co-editor of Generative studies in Basque linguistics (1993), Towards a history of the Basque language (1995), A grammar of Basque (2003) and Laboratory phonology 9 (2007), among other books. He has also published a number of articles on synchronic and diachronic issues in Basque and Romance phonology.

Harry van der Hulst is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. He has published four books, two textbooks, and over 130 articles, and has edited 20 books and six journal theme issues in areas including feature systems and segmental structure, syllable structure, word accent systems, vowel harmony, and sign language phonology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the international linguistic journal The Linguistic Review since 1990 and he is co-editor of the series Studies in Generative Grammar.

Elizabeth Hume is Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Ohio State University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Linguistics from Cornell University, an M.A. in French and Social Psychology of Language from McMaster University (Canada), and a B.A. in French from Université Laval (Quebec). Her research interests lie in language sound systems, cognitive science, language variation, and language change. She has published widely on topics including consonant–vowel interaction, feature theory, geminates, markedness, metathesis, sound change, the interplay of speech perception and phonology, and Maltese phonetics and phonology.

Brett Hyde received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rutgers University in 2001 and currently has an appointment at Washington University in St. Louis. His primary research interests are in metrical stress theory and related areas.

Larry M. Hyman is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 1972. He has published several books (e.g. Phonology theory and analysis, A theory of phonological weight) and numerous theoretical articles in such journals as Language, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, Phonology, Studies in African Linguistics, and Journal of African Languages and Linguistics.

Sharon Inkelas is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the phonology–morphology interface and has branched out in recent years into child phonology. With co-author Cheryl Zoll she published Reduplication: Doubling in morphology in 2005.

Gregory K. Iverson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Research Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language. His research interests span the fields of historical linguistics, especially Germanic, the phonetics and phonology of laryngeal systems, especially Korean, and the acquisition of second language phonological patterns.

Jongho Jun is Professor of Linguistics at Seoul National University. His research interests are phonetics in phonology, variation in phonology, and the formal properties of Optimality Theory.

Bariş Kabak is currently an Assistant Professor of English and General Linguistics at the University of Konstanz.

Ellen M. Kaisse is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She has co-edited the journal Phonology since 1988. Her research concentrates on the interactions of phonology with morphology and syntax, on distinctive features, and on the phonology of Modern Greek, Turkish, and Spanish.

Yoonjung Kang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Toronto, Scarborough and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. Her area of specialization is phonology and its interface with phonetics and morphology, with a special focus on Korean.

Shigeto Kawahara is an Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCs) at Rutgers University. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2007. His research focuses on the phonetics–phonology interface, experimental investigations of phonological judgments, corpus-based studies of verbal art, and studies on intonation and accents.

Robert Kennedy is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His areas of expertise include reduplication, prosodic morphology, hypocoristics, vowel systems of English varieties, and articulatory phonology.

John Kingston is a Professor in the Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His publications include: “Phonetic knowledge,” Language (with R. L. Diehl, 1994); “Lenition,” Proceedings of the Third Conference on Laboratory Approaches to Spanish Phonology (2007); “The phonetics–phonology interface,” Cambridge handbook of phonology (2007); “On the internal perceptual structure of distinctive features: The [voice] contrast,” Journal of Phonetics (with R. L. Diehl, C. J. Kirk, and W. A. Castleman, 2008); “Contextual effects on the perception of duration,” Journal of Phonetics (with S. Kawahara, D. Chambless, D. Mash, and E. Brenner-Alsop, 2009); “Auditory contrast versus compensation for coarticulation: Data from Japanese and English listeners,” Language and Speech (with S. Kawahara, D. Mash, and D. Chambless, in press).

Charles W. Kisseberth has just retired from his position as Professor of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University (where he taught from 1996 to 2010) and is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois (where he taught from 1969 to 1996). He is best known for his work in theoretical phonology, where his work on “conspiracies” laid the foundations for Optimality Theory, and his work on Chimwiini prosody helped to lead the way to current studies in the phonology–syntax interface. His work over the last 30 years has focused on Bantu tonal systems, and Optimal Domains Theory has evolved out of that work. He is co-author with Michael Kenstowicz of Generative phonology (1979), a standard introduction to classical generative phonology.

Alexei Kochetov is currently an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto with the thesis “Production, perception, and emergent patterns of palatalization” (published in 2002). His research deals with various issues in the phonetics- phonology interface, cross-language speech production, and Slavic phonology and phonetics.

Astrid Kraehenmann holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Linguistics from Konstanz University, Germany. Her main research interests are phonology, phonetics, the phonology–phonetics interface, historical linguistics, and Germanic languages.

Haruo Kubozono is Professor and Director at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics in Tokyo. His main publications include The organization of Japanese prosody (1993), “Mora and syllable” (in The handbook of Japanese linguistics, 1999), and “Where does loanword prosody come from?” (Lingua 116, 2006).

Darlene LaCharité is Professor of Phonetics and Phonology at Laval University. Her areas of research include loanword phonology (in collaboration with Carole Paradis), the L2 acquisition of phonetics and phonology, and creole phonology and morphology (in collaboration with Silvia Kouwenberg). She has published in a variety of linguistics journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Phonology, Journal of Linguistics and Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

William R. Leben is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Stanford University. He has worked on the phonology of tone in languages of West Africa and has also co-authored pedagogical works on Hausa. He continues to work on phonology in Kwa languages of Côte d'Ivoire. The second edition of English vocabulary elements, a textbook he co-authored, was published in 2007.

Clara C. Levelt is Associate Professor at the Linguistics Department of Leiden University, and affiliated to the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC). She received her Ph.D. in 1994, and has worked on child language phonology ever since. In 2007 she received a prestigious research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), which enabled her to set up a baby lab. Combining insights from perception and production data, phonology and phonetics, she tries to uncover the source of children's deviating productions.

Susannah V. Levi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders at New York University. She received her Ph.D. in 2004 from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington. She then completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. She has worked on glides, Turkish stress and intonation, and most recently on speech perception and language processing in children and adults.

Yen-Hwei Lin is Professor of Linguistics at Michigan State University, and taught at the 1997 and 2003 Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institutes. Her research has focused on phonological representations and constraints in the theoretical context of non-linear phonology/morphology and Optimality Theory. She is author of The sounds of Chinese (2007) and editor of Special Issue on Phonetics and Phonology (Language and Linguistics 5.4, 2004).

Anna Łubowicz is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. Her research interests lie in the investigation of the role of contrast in phonology and morphology, lexical phonology, and the morphology–phonology interface. She specializes in Slavic languages and holds a Courtesy Appointment in the Department of Slavic Languages at the University of Southern California.

Andrew Martin received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCLA in 2007. His research is focused on understanding early phonological and lexical learning. He is also interested in how a language's lexicon changes over time, and how a word's phonological properties affect that word's ability to survive and spread in a speech community. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Language Learning and Development in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute near Tokyo.

Joan Mascaró studied at the Universitat de Barcelona and at MIT where he got his Ph.D. in linguistics in 1976. He has taught at Cornell University and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is currently full professor. His main research areas are linguistic theory, phonological theory, the phonology–morphology interface, and the phonological and morphological analysis of Romance languages.

April McMahon is Forbes Professor of English Language, and Vice Principal for Planning, Resources and Research Policy, at the University of Edinburgh. She co-edits the journal English Language and Linguistics. Her research focuses on the interaction of phonological theory and sound change, and methods for the comparison and classification of accents and languages.

Jacques Mehler is the director of the Language, Cognition, and Development laboratory at the International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy (SISSA). After obtaining a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1964, he worked at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France, from 1967 until 2001. In 1972, he founded Cognition, an international journal of cognitive science, and acted as Editor-in-Chief until 2007. He became Directeur de Recherche at CNRS in 1980 and was elected Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in 1982. He has published influential experimental studies of language acquisition in the first year of life, and has also explored early bilingualism. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), the American Philosophical Society (2008) and the Academic Europaea. He was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from Utrecht University (2009), and from Université Libre de Bruxelles (1995). His publications are available at: www.sissa.it/cns/lcd/publications.html.

Jeff Mielke is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa and Co-director of the Sound Patterns Laboratory. He completed his Ph.D. at Ohio State University in 2004 and undertook postdoctoral research at the Arizona Phonological Imaging Laboratory at the University of Arizona before moving to Ottawa in 2006. His work focuses on the way phonological patterns reflect influences such as physiology, cognition, and social factors. He is the author of The emergence of distinctive features (2008).

Amanda Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on the phonetics and phonology of African languages, particularly Khoesan languages. She has studied gutturals, complex segments (clicks and labial-velars), and contour segments (affricates and airstream contours). She has investigated acoustic voice quality cues and the role of acoustic similarity in a Guttural Obligatory Contour Principle constraint; as well as tongue root retraction in clicks and labial-velars, and its role in C-V co-occurrence patterns. She has also published papers on reduplication and the tonal phonology of Khoesan languages.

Brett Miller is a graduate student at the University of Cambridge. His interests include Indo-European phonology, especially stops; the phonetics–phonology interface; feature contrast, representations, and interaction in rules and constraints; and typology vis-á-vis the comparative method.

Bruce Morén-Duolljá is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Tromsø. He has published on synchronic and diachronic phonology, including Slavic palatalization, Icelandic preaspiration and Thai tones. He is the author of Distinctiveness, coercion and sonority: A unified theory of weight (2001).

Marina Nespor is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. She has focused her research on how the phonological shape of an utterance conveys information about its syntactic structure, the so-called theory of prosodic phonology. She has also investigated how prosody is used in comprehension and during language acquisition. Her book Prosodic phonology (co-authored with I. Vogel, 1986) is a citation classic and she has numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Andrew Nevins is a Reader in Linguistics at University College London. His research has primarily focused on phonological and morphological theory, and the relations between different modules of the grammar. He has worked on locality, markedness, contrast, reduplication, the nature of underlying representations, and the structure of the morphological component. He is the author of Locality in vowel harmony (2010) and the co-editor of two books, with Bert Vaux, Rules, constraints, and phonological phenomena (2008), and with Asaf Bachrach, Inflectional identity (2008).

David Odden is Professor of Linguistics at Ohio State University. His areas of research specialization include phonological theory and language description, especially the structure of African languages. He served as Editor of Studies in African Linguistics from 2003 to 2009 and was Associate Editor of Phonology from 1998 to 2008. Recent publications include Introducing phonology (2005), “Ordering,” in Vaux and Nevins, Rules, constraints, and phonological phenomena (2008), and “Tachoni verbal tonology,” Language Sciences (2009).

Jaye Padgett is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. At the broadest level his research is on the interplay of phonology and phonetics, with special attention to the role that perception plays in shaping phonological patterns. Though his research bears on larger questions it often focuses particularly on Russian phonetics and phonology.

Carole Paradis is Professor of Phonology at Laval University. She proposed a theory of constraints in 1987, as a visiting scholar at MIT. She co-edited a book on the special status of the coronals with J.-F. Prunet in 1991. With R. Béland's collaboration, she has drawn a parallel between aphasic errors and loanword adaptations. This study, extended to other speech error types, has been published in journals such as Aphasiology and has led to the construction of more optimal speech pathology exercises.

Steve Parker is a Professor with the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics (GIAL) in Dallas. He graduated from the doctoral program in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2002. He has served as a teacher and consultant with the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL International) for 30 years. In that capacity he has carried out direct fieldwork and research on a number of indigenous languages of South America and Papua New Guinea, two of which are now extinct.

Sharon Peperkamp is a senior researcher in the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her main research interests are in experimental and computational approaches to speech perception and phonological acquisition.

Marianne Pouplier obtained her Ph.D. from Yale Linguistics in 2003 and is now a principal investigator of an Emmy-Noether Research Group funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, University of Munich. She has also been affiliated with Haskins Laboratories for a number of years. Her research focuses on the interaction of speech planning and motor control and the phonetics–phonology interface. In particular, she has worked on speech errors, phonetic correlates of syllable structure, and word boundary assimilation.

Pilar Prieto holds a Ph.D. in Romance Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is currently working as the coordinator of the Grup d'Estudis de Prosòdia at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her main research interests focus on how melody and prosody work in language and how they interact with other types of linguistic knowledge. She is also interested in how babies acquire sounds and melody together with grammar, and how these components integrate in the process of language acquisition.

Douglas Pulleyblank is Professor of Linguistics at the University of British Columbia. His research has focused on the phonology and morphology of Nigerian languages, particularly Yoruba. He has worked extensively in auto-segmental and optimality-theoretic frameworks, examining phenomena such as tone and vowel harmony.

Eric Raimy is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware in 1999. He is the author of The phonology and morphology of reduplication (2000) and co-edited Contemporary views on architecture and representations in phonology (2009) and Handbook of the syllable (in press) both with Charles Cairns.

Anthi Revithiadou is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Theory, with emphasis on the structure of phonological representations and the issue of parallel grammars, and has published in journals (Lingua, Linguistic Review, Journal of Greek Linguistics) and edited volumes.

Curt Rice is the Vice President (Prorektor) for Research and Development at the University of Tromsø in Tromsø, Norway. He was the founding Director of the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics: A Norwegian Center of Excellence (CASTL) from 2002 to 2008, at the same university.

Keren Rice is University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Linguistics and Aboriginal Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Toronto and a B.A. in Linguistics from Cornell University. Her research interests lie in language sound systems, contrast and markedness, interfaces with phonology, language variation and language change, and Athabaskan languages as well as ethics and responsibilities of linguists in fieldwork. She has published on topics including feature theory, sonorants, markedness, language change, and Athabaskan phonology and morphology.

Anastasia K. Riehl is Director of the Strathy Language Unit at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada, where she also teaches in the Linguistics Program. She received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University. Her research interests include the phonology–phonetics interface, endangered language documentation, Austronesian languages, and varieties of English.

Jason Riggle is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago, and his main research areas are phonology, learnability, and computational linguistics. Much of his research focuses on the ways that specific models of grammar, learning, and communication interact to make predictions about linguistic typology with special emphasis on the frequencies with which patterns are observed within and across languages.

Sharon Rose is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. She has published journal articles covering topics such as consonant harmony, syllable contact, Semitic root structure, reduplication, phonotactics, and the interaction between tone and syllable structure. She specializes in African languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan; her current research is an investigation of the Sudanese language, Moro, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Jerzy Rubach holds an appointment as Professor of Linguistics at two universities: the University of Iowa in the United States and the University of Warsaw in Poland. His expertise is primarily in Germanic and Slavic languages. He has published six books and 75 articles. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Linguistic Inquiry, Language, Phonology, and Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Joseph C. Salmons is Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Executive Editor of Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics. His research interests include language change, sound systems, language contact, and language shift, all often involving data from the Germanic languages.

Wendy Sandler has been investigating the phonology, morphology, and prosody of American Sign Language and Israeli Sign Language for many years, beginning with her graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her Ph.D. Sandler has authored or co-authored three books on sign language linguistics. Currently, with colleagues Mark Aronoff, Irit Meir, and Carol Padden, she is investigating a new sign language that arose in an insulated Bedouin community in the Negev desert of Israel.

Tobias Scheer is currently Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in France. He works at the laboratory Bases, Corpus, Langage (UMR 6039) in Nice, of which he is the director. Being a phonologist, his main interests lie in syllable structure thematically speaking, in the (Western) Slavic family as far as languages are concerned, and in diachronic study. In 2004, he published a book on a particular development of GP, so-called CVCV (or strict CV), and a book on the (history of the) interface of phonology and morpho-syntax.

Misun Seo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hannam University in Daejeon, Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at Ohio State University; her research interests include phonology, its interface with phonetics, and L2 acquisition.

Kimary Shahin is a phonetician/phonologist who specializes in Arabic and Salish. She also investigates first language acquisition and contributes to the documentation and revitalization of indigenous languages in Canada.

Mohinish Shukla has a background in molecular genetics, and holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Italy. He is currently doing postdoctoral work at the University of Rochester, New York. He is interested in human cognition, with a focus on infant cognitive development, particularly the development of linguistic abilities from phonology to syntax. He is also interested in the neural bases of cognitive behavior, which he primarily explores using near-infrared spectroscopy in infants and adults.

Daniel Silverman earned his degree at UCLA in 1995 under the tutelage of Donca Steriade and Peter Ladefoged. He has published widely on phonology and phonetics, including A critical introduction to phonology: Of sound, mind, and body (2006), and Neutralization: Rhyme and reason in phonology (forthcoming). He is currently on the faculty of San José State University.

Jennifer L. Smith teaches phonology, phonetics, and Japanese linguistics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research explores the ways in which interfaces between phonology and other domains of linguistics affect phonological constraints and representations.

Péter Szigetvári gives courses on phonology, linguistics, information technology, and typography at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His main research areas include phonotactics and consonant lenition.

Nina Topintzi has taught as a Teaching Fellow in England and Greece (2006–2010) and will soon commence her appointment as Assistant Professor in Phonology at the English Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published in journals including Natural Language & Linguistic Theory and the Journal of Greek Linguistics. Beyond onsets, her research interests include stress, the syllable, and various weight-based phenomena from a typological perspective.

Miklós Törkenczy is a Professor at the Department of English Linguistics and the Theoretical Linguistics Department of Eötvös Loránd University Budapest and a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is co-author of The phonology of Hungarian (2000).

Jochen Trommer received his Ph.D. from the University of Potsdam, has worked as lecturer at the University of Osnabrück and is currently Lecturer in Phonology at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Leipzig. His work focuses on the theoretical and typological aspects of phonology and morphology, especially prosody, non-concatenative morphology, hierarchy effects in agreement morphology, and affix order. His publications include “Case suffixes, postpositions, and the phonological word in Hungarian,” Linguistics 46(1) (2008); “Hierarchy-based competition and emergence of two-argument agreement in Dumi,” Linguistics 44(5) (2006); and “The interaction of morphology and syntax in affix order,” Yearbook of Morphology 2002 (2003).

Suzanne Urbanczyk is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Victoria. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has published on Salish reduplication and non-concatenative morphology in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory and Linguistic Inquiry. Her current research focuses on the role repetition plays in structuring language, and she is developing a model of morphology which is grounded in the mental lexicon, with an empirical focus on word-formation in Salish and Wakashan languages.

Adam Ussishkin is an Associate Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Arizona, where he also holds joint appointments in Cognitive Science and Near Eastern Studies. His areas of research include phonology, morphology, and lexical access, with an empirical focus on Semitic languages.

Bert Vaux is University Reader in Phonology and Morphology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is primarily interested in phenomena that shed light on the structure and origins of the phonological component of the grammar, especially in the realms of psychophonology, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. He also enjoys working with native speakers to document endangered languages, especially dialects of Armenian, Abkhaz, and English.

Rachel Walker is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Nasalization, neutral segments and opacity effects (2000) and Vowel patterns in language (forthcoming). She has published widely on topics involving long-distance assimilation and copy, as seen in systems of harmony and reduplication. Her current research investigates the interaction of vowel patterns with positions of prominence in the word.

Natasha Warner has been a faculty member in Linguistics at the University of Arizona since 2001 and has worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Her interests are in the three-way interface of phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, with language interests in Dutch, Japanese, Korean, and English. She also works on revitalization of the Mutsun language.

Janet C. E. Watson is Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the University of Salford, UK. She has previously worked at the universities of Edinburgh and Durham, and held visiting posts at the universities of Heidelberg and Oslo. She has published extensively on Yemeni Arabic, and since 2006 has been working on the documentation of the Modern South Arabian language, Mehri. She is currently preparing a syntax of Mehri for publication. Her publications include Phonology and morphology of Arabic (2002) and A syntax of San'ani Arabic (1993).

Andrew Wedel is on the faculty of the Department of Linguistics and the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona. His primary interests lie in exploring the causes for, and the interaction of, two opposing tendencies evident in language change: a tendency toward pattern-coherence, and a tendency to preserve semantically relevant contrasts. Relevant work in this domain includes “Feedback and regularity in the lexicon,” Phonology 24, and with Juliette Blevins, “Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition,” Diachronica 26 (2009).

Jeroen van de Weijer is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University (College of English Language and Literature) within the Chinese “211-Project.” He is a Distinguished University Professor of Shanghai (Oriental Scholar), an award bestowed by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. He has published widely on segmental structure, Optimality Theory, English phonology, and East Asian languages. His current research is focused on combining phonological and psycholinguistic theories.

Richard Wiese has been a Professor of German Linguistics at the Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany, since 1996. His work concentrates on theoretical linguistics, phonology, and psycholinguistics. He has written a monograph, The phonology of German (2000) and numerous articles on issues of (German) phonology, morphology, psycholinguistics, and orthography, and is Co-editor of the book series Linguistische Arbeiten.

Ronnie Wilbur, Professor and Director of Linguistics and Professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, received her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has taught at the University of Southern California, Boston University, University of Amsterdam, University of Graz, Austria, and University of Zagreb. Her 1973 dissertation “The phonology of reduplication” was reissued as a “Classic in Linguistics” in 1997. She was Founding Editor of the journal Sign Language & Linguistics and Editor from 1998 to 2006.

Matthew Wolf received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. After having been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University, he is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale. His research has focused primarily on aspects of the phonology–morphology interface, including process morphology, allomorph selection, and paradigm gaps, as well as on opacity and serial versions of Optimality Theory.

Moira Yip is Professor of Linguistics (Emerita) at University College London. Previously she was at the University of California, Irvine, and Brandeis University. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in 1980, studying under Morris Halle. She has published extensively on tone, reduplication, distinctive feature theory, and loanword phonology. Much of her work has been on Chinese languages. Recently she has become interested in comparisons between birdsong and human phonology, and is now publishing in this area.

Alan C. L. Yu is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He is the author of A natural history of infixation (2007) and co-editor (with John Goldsmith and Jason Riggle) of the Handbook of phonological theory, 2nd edition (forthcoming). His work on phonetics and phonology has appeared in Language, Phonology, Journal of Phonetics, and PLoS One.

Draga Zec is Professor of Linguistics at Cornell University. She has worked in several areas of phonology and its interfaces: the moraic theory of syllable structure, the representation of pitch accent, and both the phonology-morphology and the phonology–syntax interfaces.

Elizabeth C. Zsiga is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research primarily addresses the phonetic and phonological patterns that occur at and across word boundaries in connected speech. Her publications have examined a range of processes in different languages, including final consonant deletion and palatalization in English, vowel assimilation in Igbo, palatalization in Russian, tone simplification in Thai, voicing in Setswana, pitch accent in Serbian, and most recently nasalization and voicing in Korean and Korean-accented English.