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Department
Retired both from Department of English (as professor of linguistics) and Computing and Information Technology/Office of the General Counsel (as chief privacy officer)
Secondary Title
Professor Emeritus
Biography
Some recent work
- Our new (2020) book on Cognitive Linguistics
- A pre-publication draft of my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Grammar is available in PDF format
- A recent paper (PDF format) on my thoughts about usage-based phonology is available
- A revised, full-text version of the paper originally given at Saarbrucken: Natural Phonology Special Issue Paper
- My phonology textbook. You can read about it here: Benjamins'
- Errata file containing all errors found so far in the phonology text: Phonology Text errata
Research Description
My primary research interest is how overall cognition interacts with phonology--the way we perceive, categorize and produce the sounds of language. More recent research includes how our interaction with speech sounds is related to our perception and production of music.