• Description
• Personnel & Affiliates
• Research Projects
• Sound Minds Talks
• Graduate Program in Language Sound Structure

The Research Group in Language Sound Structure

Researchers in phonetics and phonology in the department participate in the interdepartmental "Sound Minds" group. Bringing together researchers in linguistics, anthropology, speech, French, Spanish/Portuguese, and psychology, Sound Minds encourages collaboration across disciplines in the study of linguistic sound systems. Our group meets on a regular basis and supports invited speakers and a reading group. Our central goals are to enrich our understanding of sound systems by friendly and feisty discussion across disciplines. Our meetings are open to anyone with an interest in sound systems.

Research Group Participants

Faculty with primary interests in Sound structure
• Diana B. Archangeli, Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (MIT 1984) Phonology, phonetics, morphology, Native American languages, ryphonological features and their phonetic correlates, syllable structure, templatic morphology.
• Ana Maria Carvalho, Asst. Prof. Spanish and Portuguese (UC Berkeley) Sociolinguistics, Spanish and Portuguese Linguistics.
• Richard A. Demers, Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (UWashington 1968) Structures of Native American languages, in particular those of the northwest, instrumental phonetics and its role in providing evidence for phonological theory.
• LouAnn Gerken, Assoc. Prof., Speech & Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Cognitive Science (Columbia 1987) Children's production of prosody, phonology's role in the acquisition of morpho-syntax.
• Michael Hammond, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics, Cognitive Science (UCLA 1984) Phonology, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, meter, stress/accent, and syllable structure.
• Jane Hill, Regents Prof., Anthropology (UCLA 1966) Uto-Aztecan, language & culture, language endangerment
• Norma Mendoza-Denton, Asst. Prof, Anthropology (Stanford, 1997 (Linguistics)) Sociophonetics, language variation, language & ethnicity, language & gender.
• Diane Ohala, Lecturer, Linguistics (UArizona 1996) Phonological acquisition in normal language and speech-language impaired populations, phonology, psycholinguistics.
• Yingyong Qi, Assoc. Prof., Speech & Hearing Sciences (Ohio State 1989) Electrical & Computer Engineering (UArizona 1993) Speech acoustics, speech production, and digital signal processing.
• Tim Vance, Prof. East Asian Studies (University of Chicago), Japanese Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology
• Natasha Warner, Asst Prof. Linguistics (UCBerkeley 1998) Phonetics, Experimental Phonology, Language Preservation
• Linda Waugh, Prof. French and Italian. (Indiana) French Linguistics and Phonology
• Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Research Scientist, Cognitive Science (UPennsylvania 1979) Sound change, chain shifting of vowels, disagreement strategies, prosody and interactive strategies.
• Mary Zampini, Asst. Prof., Spanish & Portuguese (Georgetown 1993) Spanish phonetics, phonology; second language (L2) speech production and perception; L2 acquisition of phonology.
Faculty with secondary interests in Sound Structure
• Ken Forster, Research Social Scientist, Cognitive Science. Lexical & sentence processing.
• Merrill Garrett, Director, Cognitive Science. Speech production.
• Rudolf Gaudio, Asst. Prof., Anthropology. Ethnographic discourse analysis, pitch & intonation.
• Theodore J. Glattke, Prof., Speech & Hearing Sciences. Physiology of the auditory system.
• Janet Nicol, Assoc. Prof., Psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive Science. Sentence production.
• Mary Willie, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics. Dine (Navajo) linguistics, Dine language program.
• Ofelia Zepeda, Assoc. Prof., Linguistics, AILDI Co-director. Lexicography, Tohono O’odham linguistics
Graduate Students Affiliates
• Luis Barragan (Linguistics)
• Sonya Bird (Linguistics)
• Deborah Cole (Linguistics)
• Rachel Hayes (Linguistics)
• Catherine Hicks Kennard (Linguistics)
• Peg Lewis (Linguistics)
• Jessica Maye (Linguistics)
• Mizuki Miyashita (Linguistics)
• Laura Moll (Linguistics)
• Peter Norquest (Linguistics)
• Heidi Orcutt (Linguistics)
• Tania Zamuner (Linguistics) <to be written>

Research Projects

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Graduate Programs in Language Sound Structure

The research group, in coordination with the department of linguistics, sponsors a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a specialization in Phonetics, Phonology, and morphophonology.

A masters degree in the phonology of Native American languages is offered by the Linguistics dept.

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