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Teaching Experience and Service
Department of Linguistics, UF--Gainesville
8/12-5/13: Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Term Professor in CLAS
7/10-8/12: Chair, Linguistics Department
8/06 to 6/10: Director, Linguistics Program
7/05 to 8/06: Interim Director
8/01 to present: Associate Professor
8/95 to 7/01: Assistant Professor
Courses Regularly
Taught: Lin3010 Introduction to Linguistics
Lin3201 Sounds of Human Language
Lin 4320/6323 Introduction to Phonology
Lin 6084 Introduction to Graduate Research
Lin6341 Issues in Phonology
Also at UF: Graduate Exam Committee/Comprehensive
Exam Committee
Past Graduate Coordinator, Associate Chair, 8/00-7/05
Past Faculty Academic and Preview Advisor: CLAS Academic Advising Center
Past Advisor to the Linguistics Club
Before UF:
Department of Linguistics, Yale University 9/94 - 6/95: Lecturer with Ph.D.
Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University 9/93 - 6/94:
Visiting Assistant Professor
Educational Testing Service September 1992 to August 1993:
Associate Examiner Critical Reasoning Group, Schools and Higher Education
Programs
1993-1999: Consultant, Outside Review of GRE Analytical Sections
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University of Chicago, Linguistics Department
Specializations: Phonology, Phonetics, Dravidian Languages
Ph.D. with distinction, August 1992
Dissertation:
Syllabification and Rule Application in Harmonic Phonology
M.A. in Linguistics, June 1988
Thesis: Syllable Structure in IruLa:
the role of one licensing condition in IruLa phonology
Yale College Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Mathematics, June
1986
Brown University, The Center for the Advancement of College Teaching Teaching Certificate, June 1994
Intensive Telugu: University of Wisconsin, Madison, Summer
1992
Tamil: University of Chicago, 1986-1989
Tamil: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1989-1990, as
Junior Fellow,
Tamil Language Program
in Madurai, India
Intensive Malayalam: University of Texas, Austin, Summer
1988
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Supervisory
committees for Graduate Students (in Linguistics unless otherwise indicated)
| PhDs Chair: | Batais, Saleh Grad 5/2013 | Consonantal and Syllabic Repairs of Arabic and Dutch Loanwords in Indonesian: a Phonological Account |
| Al-Aghbari, Khalsa Grad 5/2012 | Noun Plurality in Jebbali | |
| Gogoi, Divya Verma Grad 8/2010 | Acquisition of Novel Perceptual Categories in a Third Language: The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness and Feature Generalization | |
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Sarmah, Priyankoo Grad
5/2009 |
Tone
Systems of Dimasa and Rabha:
A Phonetic and Phonological Study |
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Bray,
Jodi P. |
Understanding
sonority: an acoustic analysis of perceptual cues in English and Russian
consonant clusters |
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PhDs
Co-chair: |
Wohlmuth-Ramirez,
Sonia Grad
12/2008 |
Persistence
of the Latin Accent in the Nominal System of Castilian, Catalan, and
Portuguese (PhD. In Romance Languages) |
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Habib,
Rania |
A
New Model for Analyzing Sociolinguistic Variation: The Interaction of Social
and Linguistic Constraints |
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Baker,
Gary K. |
Palatal
phenomena in Spanish phonology (PhD in Romance Languages) |
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Pickering,
Lucy |
An
analysis of prosodic systems in the classroom discourse of native speaker and
nonnative speaker teaching assistants |
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Sawallis, Thomas Grad 8/1996 |
An
autonomous system for quantifying the perceptual use of acoustic speech cues:
voicing in intervocalic t/d in French |
| PhDs Member: | Jangjamras, Jirapat Grad 5/2011 | Perception and Production of English Lexical Stress by Thai Speakers |
| | Laphasradakul, Belle Grad 12/2010 | Training Native Speakers of American English to Perceive Thai Tones using High Stimulus Variability |
| | He, Yunjuan Grad 5/2010 | Perception and Production of Isolated and Coarticulated Mandarin Tones by American Learners |
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Bao, Minghzen |
Phonetic
Realization and Perception of Prominence among Lexical Tones in Mandarin
Chinese |
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Li,
Bin |
Perception
and production of English [n] and [l] by Chinese dialect speakers |
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Al-Khairy, Mohamed |
Acoustic
characteristics of Arabic fricatives |
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Park,
Heenam |
Second
language reading: the interrelationships among text adjuncts, students'
proficiency levels and reading strategies |
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Yeon, Sang-hee |
Teaching
English word-final alveolopalatals to native
speakers of Korean |
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Cesar-Lee,
Bernadette |
Quantification
of accented pronunciation by American English speakers in French-as-a-foreign
language setting (PhD in Romance Languages) |
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Lee,
Hyeran |
A
feature-based account of long-distance anaphora |
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Maranzana, Elisa M. |
Toward
a theory of reading acquisition as a synthesis of implicit and explicit
learning |
MAs
Chair, Thesis: | Chen, Si Grad 8/2010 | New Typology of Japanese Compound Accents and an Analysis in OT |
| Ballard, Lee Grad 5/2010 | Akan Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory | |
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Chappell,
Milla |
The
Role of First-Language Transfer and Universal Markedness
in Second-Language Production and Perception of Word-final Obstruents and Obstruent Clusters |
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Welch,
William |
Aspects
of Zarma-Songhay Tonal Phonology |
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Moon,
Russell |
A
comparison of the acoustic correlates of focus in Indian English and American
English |
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Hendricks,
Rodger E. |
Connectionist
modeling of tone spread in Mende |
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Anuszewski, Patricia |
Regarding
the representation and organization of the nodes larynx and tongue root in a
three-dimensional manner |
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MA
Chair, Non-Thesis: |
Gavrin, Jeong A Ahn
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Bray,
Jodi |
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MA
Member, Thesis: |
Litzenberg, Jason |
Yes/No-Question
intonation of native speakers and international teaching assistants in
academic discourse |
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Monahan,
Philip |
Backward
object control in Korean |
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Hill,
Rebecca |
Production
and perception of authentic and feigned Spanish accents |
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Gomez-Canseco,
Juan |
El
infinitivo tras verbos de movimiento en castellano medieval: reccióón directa vs. preposicional en seis texto téécnicos
de los siglos XIII, XIV, y XV (MA in Spanish) |
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Hansen,
Kathryn |
Is
there a basis for stress-timed rhythm? eight languages compared |
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Liljegren, Kristin |
Syncopation
and syllabification: how rock and popular music rhythms affect the French
schwa (MA in French) |
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Moyna, Marie Irene |
The
evolution of verbal voseo in Rio de la Plata
Spanish: Evidence from plays and popular songs between 1880 and 1930. |
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MA
Member, Non-thesis: |
Blakemore,
Heather |
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Last somewhat updated: 8/2013