Diana Archangeli | |
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Awards | CASBS fellowship |
Academic background | |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) University of Texas at Austin (MA) |
Thesis | Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Morris Halle |
Other advisors | S. Jay Keyser James Harris |
Academic work | |
Discipline | linguistics |
Sub-discipline | morphology,phonetics,phonology |
Institutions | University of Arizona University of Hong Kong (2013 - 2017) |
Notable ideas | Emergent Phonology |
Website | http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dba/index.html |
Diana B. Archangeli (born in Oregon in 1953) is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
She earned her M.A. at the University of Texas-Austin in 1981,and her PhD from MIT in 1984,with a dissertation entitled,"Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology." [1] [2] Her dissertation was selected for publication in Garland's Outstanding Dissertation series (Archangeli 1988).
She taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a year before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1985. She also spent a few years teaching at the University of Hong Kong (2013-2017). [3]
She is known for a number of widely cited works on phonetics and phonology, [4] often in collaboration with Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC),within the frameworks of Grounded Phonology,Emergent Phonology and underspecification. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
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