Colin J. Ewen

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ISBN 978-0521359146. Cambridge University Press.
  • The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume and Keren Rice (eds.), Wiley Blackwell, London. ISBN   978-1-4051-8423-6
  • Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological Papers in Honour of John Anderson (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005
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    Colin J. Ewen
    Academic background
    Alma mater University of Edinburgh (PhD)
    Thesis Aspects of phonological structure with particular reference to English and Dutch  (1980)
    Doctoral advisor John Mathieson Anderson