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Juliette Blevins (Née Levin)

The Graduate Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016-4309 USA

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Citizenship: USA, Australian

Education

1981-1985 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;1985 Ph.D., Department of Linguistics & Philosophy. Dissertation: A Metrical Theory of Syllabicity.

1977-1981 Barnard College, New York, NY; 1981 B.A.: Honors in French; Honors in Linguistics; Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa.

Employment

2020- Presidential Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2010- Full Professor with tenure, Linguistics Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY

2004-2010 Senior Research Scientist, Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

2002-2004 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley

2000-2001 Professor of Linguistics, University of Luton

1992-1999 Associate Professor with tenure from 1994, Centre for Linguistics, The University of Western Australia

1985-1992 Associate Professor with tenure from 1991, Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin 1 Honours, Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2020- Fellow, Linguistic Society of America

2016 Empirical Foundations in Linguistics, International Chair, French National Center for Scientific Research, LACITO, Paris

2015-2018 National Science Foundation Grant #1500186 “DDRIG: Expanding Phonological Typology through Kaco’ sound patterns”, with Emily L. Olson, The Graduate Center

2011- Fellow, International Centre for Language Revitalization,Te Ipukarea

2010 Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation, Small Grant, ‘Tsou Storybooks’

2001-2004 National Science Foundation Grant #0004081 'The Yurok language: description and revitalization’, with A. Garrett, University of California, Berkeley.

2004 Curriculum development grant, ‘Learning from the Muwekma Ohlone of the East Bay’, In Dulci Jubilo, Inc. Berkeley, CA.

1995-1999 Australian Research Council Large Grant, 'Syllable Structure in Australian Aboriginal Languages'

1996 Stanford Women's Fellowship, The University of Western Australia

1995 AIATSIS Research Grant 'The Nhanta Language: Its Structure, History, and Linguistic Affiliations'

1994 AIATSIS Research Grant 'The Nhanta Language: Its Structure and History'

1993 Research Project Grant, University of Western Australia

1987-1988 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin

1986-1987 The Dallas TACA Centennial Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin

1986 University Summer Research Award, The University of Texas at Austin

1983 The Beatrice Hall Fellowship, The Linguistic Society of America

1981-1982 The Ida M. Green Fellowship, MIT

1981-1982 The George Wellwood Murray Fellowship, Barnard College

1981 Associate Alumnae of Barnard College Fellowship

1980, 1981 The Eleanor Keller Prize, French Dept., Barnard College

1980 Institute Fellowship, The Linguistic Society of America

2 Publications

Books/Monographs

Blevins, J. 2018. Advances in Proto-Basque reconstruction with evidence for the Proto-Indo- European-Euskarian Hypothesis. New York & London: Routledge.

Blevins, J. 2004. Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Blevins, J. 2001. Nhanda: An Aboriginal language of Western Australia. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications in Linguistics, Number 30. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.

Edited Volumes

Blevins, James P. and Juliette Blevins (editors). 2009. Analogy in grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blevins, J. (editor). 2007. Phonology 24.1. Thematic issue: 'Synchrony and diachrony in phonology'.

Refereed Journal Articles

Blevins, J., A. Egurtzegi, and J. Ullrich. 2020. Final obstruent voicing in Lakota: Phonetic evidence and phonological implications. Language 96(2):294-337.

Blevins, J. and A. Egurtzegi. 2017. Unexpected obstruent loss in initial obstruent-sonorant clusters: an apparent example from Basque. Phonology 34.3: 507-522.

Blevins, J. 2012. Duality of patterning: Absolute universal or statistical tendency? Bart de Boer, Simon Kirby, and Wendy Sandler (eds.). Language and Cognition, special issue.

Blevins, J. and D. Kaufman. 2012. Origins of Palauan Intrusive Velar Nasals. Oceanic Linguistics 51: 18-33.

Blevins, J. 2010. Saving endangered languages in the United States. A Living Legacy: Preserving Intangible Culture. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. 6-10.

Blevins, J. and A. Pawley. 2010. Typological implications of Kalam predictable vowels. Phonology 27.1:1-44.

Blevins, J. 2009. Low vowel dissimilation outside Oceanic: The case of Alamblak. Oceanic Linguistics 48:2: 477-83.

3 Refereed Journal Articles (cont.)

Blevins, J. and S. Grawunder. 2009. *Kl > Tl sound change in Germanic and elsewhere: Descriptions, explanations, and implications. Linguistic Typology 13: 267-303.

Blevins, J. and John Lynch. 2009. Morphological conditions on regular sound change? A reanalysis of *l-loss in Paamese and Southeast Ambrym. Oceanic Linguistics 48: 111-29.

Blevins, J. and A. Wedel. 2009. Inhibited sound change: An evolutionary approach to lexical competition. Diachronica 26.2: 143-83.

Blevins, J. 2009. Another universal bites the dust: Northwest Mekeo lacks coronal phonemes. Oceanic Linguistics 48: 264-73.

Blevins, J. 2008a. Phonetic explanation without compromise: The evolution of Mussau syncope. Diachronica 25: 1-19.

Blevins, J. 2008b. Some comparative notes on Oceanic *mana: Inside and outside the Austronesian family. Oceanic Linguistics 47:253-74.

Blevins, J. 2008c. Hes and Kus Questions in Yurok: A case for lexeme-specific word order. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 5: 1-16.

Blevins, J. 2007a. A long lost sister of Proto-Austronesian? Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands. Oceanic Linguistics 46: 154-98.

Blevins, J. 2007b. The importance of typology in explaining recurrent sound patterns. Linguistic Typology 11:107-113.

Blevins, J. 2007c. Endangered sound patterns: Three perspectives on theory and description. Language Documentation and Conservation 1: 1-16.

Blevins, J. and Andrew Garrett. 2007. The rise and fall of l sandhi in California Algic. International Journal of American Linguistics 73: 72-93.

Blevins, J. 2006a. A theoretical synopsis of Evolutionary Phonology. Theoretical Linguistics 32:117-65.

Blevins, J. 2006b. New perspectives on English sound patterns: 'Natural' and 'Unnatural' in Evolutionary Phonology. Journal of English Linguistics 34:6-25.

Blevins, J. 2005a. The role of phonological predictability in sound change: Privileged reduction in Oceanic reduplicated substrings. Oceanic Linguistics 44:455-464.

Blevins, J. 2005b. Yurok verb classes. International Journal of American Linguistics 71:327-49.

4 Refereed Journal Articles (cont.)

Blevins, J. 2005c. Origins of Northern Costanoan ṣak:en ‘six’: A reconsideration of senary counting in Utian. International Journal of American Linguistics 71:87-101.

Blevins, J. and Victor Golla. 2005. A New Mission Indian Manuscript from the San Francisco Bay Area. Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. Volume 22:1: 33-61.

Blevins, J. 2004a. The mystery of Austronesian final consonant loss. Oceanic Linguistics 43: 179-184.

Blevins, J. 2004b. A reconsideration of Yokuts vowels. International Journal of American Linguistics. 70:33-51.

Blevins, J. 2004c. Klamath Sibilant degemination: Implications of a recent sound change. International Journal of American Linguistics. 70:279-89.

Blevins, J. 2003a. The Phonology of Yurok glottalized sonorants. International Journal of American Linguistics. 69: 371-96.

Blevins, J. 2003b. One case of contrast evolution in the Yurok vowel system. International Journal of American Linguistics. 69: 135-50.

Blevins, J. 2003c. Yurok syllable weight. International Journal of American Linguistics. 69: 4- 24.

Blevins, J. 2003d. A note on reduplication in Bugotu and Cheke Holo. Oceanic Linguistics 42. 499-505.

Blevins, J. 2001a. Klamath /sʔ/ clusters. International Journal of American Linguistics 67: 467- 474.

Blevins, J. 2001b. A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Malya kanangga! Australian Aboriginal Studies 2001/1:75-77.

Blevins, J. 1999a. Untangling Leti infixation. Oceanic Linguistics 38:383-403.

Blevins, J. 1999b. Nhanda and its position within Pama-Nyungan. Oceanic Linguistics 38: 297- 320.

Blevins, J. and S. P. Harrison. 1999. Trimoraic feet in Gilbertese. Oceanic Linguistics. 38: 203- 230.

Blevins, J. 1998. A Dutch influence on Nhanda? Wanyjidaga innga! Australian Aboriginal Studies: 43-46. 5

Refereed Journal Articles (cont.)

Blevins, J. and A. Garrett. 1998. The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis. Language 74: 508-56.

Blevins, J. 1996. Mokilese reduplication. Linguistic Inquiry, 27.3: 523-30.

Blevins, J. and D. Marmion. 1995. Nhanda glottal stop. Oceanic Linguistics 34: 139-60.

Blevins, J. 1994a. A place for lateral in the feature geometry. Journal of Linguistics, 30: 301-48.

Blevins, J. 1994b. The bimoraic foot in Rotuman phonology and morphology. Oceanic Linguistics 33: 491-516.

Blevins, J. 1994c. A phonological and morphological reanalysis of the Maori passive. Te Reo 37: 29-53.

Blevins, J. and D. Marmion. 1994. Nhanta historical phonology. Australian Journal of Linguistics 14: 193-216.

Blevins, J. 1993a. A tonal analysis of Lithuanian nominal accent. Language 69: 237-273.

Blevins, J. 1993b. Klamath laryngeal phonology. International Journal of American Linguistics 59: 237-279.

Blevins, J. 1993c. Gilyak lenition as a phonological rule. Journal of Australian Linguistics 13: 1-21.

Blevins, J. and A. Garrett. 1993. The evolution of Ponapeic nasal substitution.Oceanic Linguistics 32: 199-236.

6 Book Chapters

Blevins, J. 2020b. Sound patterns and sound change: new threads in the panchronic tapestry. In I. Leblic et L. Souag (eds.) Du terrain à la théorie. Les 40 ans du LACITO. Villejuif: LACITO- Publications, Hors série 1: 255-274.

Blevins, J. 2020a. Derivational patterns in Proto-Basque word structure. In L. Körtvélyessy and P. Štekauer (eds.), Complex words: Advances in Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 222-243.

Blevins, J. 2019a. Deconstructing markedness in sound change typology: Notes on θ > f and f > θ. In L. Heltoft, I. Igartua, B. Joseph, K. Kragh, & L. Schøsler (eds.), Perspectives on Language Structure and Language Change. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 107-122.

Blevins, J. 2019b. Evolutionary phonology as human behavior. In N. Stern, R. Otheguy, W. Reid, and J. Ruggles-Sackler (eds), Columbia School Linguistics in the 21st Century: Advances in Sign-Based Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 281-300.

Blevins, J. 2019c. Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North South divide. In Tom Güldemann, Patrick McConvell, and Richard Rhodes (eds.), The Language of Hunter-gatherers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 198-230.

Blevins, J. 2018. Evolutionary phonology and the life cycle of voiceless sonorants. In Sonia Cristofaro and Fernando Zuniga (eds.), Typological Hierarchies in Synchrony and Diachrony. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 29-60.

Blevins, J. 2017a. Areal sound patterns. In Raymond Hickey (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 88-121.

Blevins, J. 2017b. Between natural and unnatural phonology: The case of cluster-splitting epenthesis. In Claire Bowern, Laurence Horn & Raffaella Zanuttini (eds.) On looking into words (and beyond): Structures, Relations, Analyses. Berlin: Language Science Press. 3-16.

Blevins, J. 2017c. What are grammars made of? In Bridget D. Samuels (ed.) Beyond Markedness in Formal Phonology. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 47-68.

Blevins, J. 2015. Evolutionary Phonology: A holistic approach to sound change typology. In, Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 485-500.

Blevins, J. 2014. Infixation. In The Oxford Handbook of Derivation. Shelly Lieber and Pavol Štekauer (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. 136-53.

7 Book Chapters (cont.)

Blevins, J. 2010. Phonetically-based sound patterns: Typological tendencies or. phonological universals? In C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. D'Imperio, and N. Vallée (eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology X: Variation, phonetic detail and phonological modeling. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 201-224.

Blevins, J. 2009. Phonetic explanations for recurrent sound patterns: Diachronic or Synchronic? In C. Cairns and E. Raimy (eds.), Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 325-36.

Blevins, J. 2009. Structure-preserving sound change: A look at unstressed vowel syncope in Austronesian. In A. Adelaar and A. Pawley (eds.), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Bob Blust. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. 33-49.

Blevins, James P. and Juliette Blevins. 2009. Introduction: Analogy in grammar. In J. P. Blevins and J. Blevins (eds.), Analogy in grammar: Form and Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Garrett, A. and J. Blevins. 2009. Analogical morphophonology. In Sharon Inkelas and Kristin Hanson (eds.). The Nature of the Word: Essays in Honor of Paul Kiparsky. Cambridge: MIT Press. 527-46.

Blevins, J. 2008a. Natural and unnatural sound patterns: A pocket field guide. In Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere (eds.), Naturalness and Iconicity in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 121-48.

Blevins, J. 2008b. Consonant epenthesis: natural and unnatural histories. In Jeff Good (ed.), Language universals and language change. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 79-107.

Blevins, J. 2007. Interpreting misperception: Beauty is in the ear of the beholder. In Maria Josep Sole, Pam Beddor, and Manju Ohala (eds.), Experimental Approaches to Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 144-54.

Blevins, J. 2006. Syllable typology. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, Volume 12. Keith Brown, editor. Oxford: Elsevier. 333-337.

Blevins, J. 2005. Understanding antigemination. In Linguistic diversity and language theories. Zygmunt Frajzyngier, David Rood, and Adam Hodges (eds.). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. 203-34.

Blevins, J. and A. Garrett. 2004. The evolution of metathesis. In Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade (eds.). Phonetically based phonology. Cambridge University Press. 117- 56.

Book Chapters (cont.)

Blevins, J. 2003. The independent nature of phonotactic constraints: an alternative to syllable- based approaches. In Caroline Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.). The syllable in optimality theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 375-403.

Blevins, J. 2001. Where have all the onsets gone? Initial Consonant Loss in Australian Aboriginal Languages. In Jane Simpson, David Nash, Mary Laughren, Peter Austin, and Barry Alpher (eds.) Forty years on: Ken Hale and Australian languages Pacific Linguistics 512. Canberra: The Australian National University. 481-492.

Blevins, J. 1997. Rules in Optimality Theory: two case studies. In I. Roca (ed.), Derivations and constraints in phonology, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 227-60.

Blevins, J. 1995. The Syllable in Phonological Theory, Handbook of phonological theory, ed. by John Goldsmith, Basil Blackwell, London, 206-44. [Reprinted in C. W. Kreidler 2001 (ed.), Phonology: Critical Concepts, Volume 3. London: Routledge. 75-113.]

Blevins, J. 1993. The Nature of Constraints on the Non-Dominant Hand in ASL, Phonological Structure in ASL, the American signed language of the Deaf: Current Issues, ed. by G. Coulter (Phonetics and Phonology, Vol. 3), Academic Press, New York, 43-62.

Levin, J. 1988. Bidirectional Foot Construction as a Window on Level Ordering, Theoretical Morphology, M. Hammond and M. Noonan eds., Orlando: Academic Press. 339-352.

Levin, J. and D. Massam 1988. Raising and Binding in Niuean, Studies in Austronesian Linguistics, R. McGinn ed., Ohio University Monographs in International Studies. Athens, Ohio: Southeast Asia Series No. 76. 253-274.

Levin, J. 1987. Underspecification Theory and Korean Vowels, Harvard Studies in Korean Linguistics II, S. Kuno, J. Whitman, I.-H. Lee, S.-Y. Bak, and Y.-S. Kang eds., Seoul: Hanshin Publishing Co. 404-420.

Levin, J. 1987. Constraints on Syllabification in French: Eliminating Truncation Rules. Advances in Romance Linguistics, D. Birdsong and J.-P. Montreuil eds., Publications in Language Sciences, No. 29. Dordrecht: Foris. 253-273.

Forthcoming Publications

Blevins, J. To appear. Segment inventories. In A. Adelaar and A. Schapper (eds.), The Oxford Guide to the Malayo-Polynesian Languages of Asia (and Madagascar). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

9 Reviews, Translations and Other Publications

Blevins, J. 2014. Review of ‘A dictionary of Kalam with ethnographic notes by Andrew Pawley and Ralph Bulmer’. Oceanic Linguistics 53: 191-97.

2012. Endangered Language Alliance, Endangered Language Initiative and the Unity and Humanity Foundation. Zird Zaridz. A Shughni children’s book.

Blevins, J. 2011. Review of ‘Variation and gradience in phonetics and phonology’, F. Kügler, C. Féry and Ruben van de Vijver (eds.). Language 87: 212-15.

Blevins, J. 2010a. Review of ‘Mussau grammar essentials’ by John and Marjo Brownie. Oceanic Linguistics 49: 21-24.

Blevins, J. 2010b. Review of ‘Syllable structure: The limits of variation’ by San Duanmu. Linguistic Typology 14.2. 287-91.

Blevins, J. 2009. Some remarks on the Prague School. Travaux linguistiques de Brno 5: 30-1.

Blevins, J. 2006a. Review of Klingenheben's Law in Hausa by Paul Newman. Phonology 23:459-63.

Blevins, J. 2006b. Review of Selfish sounds and linguistic evolution by N. Ritt. Studies in Language 30:632-640.

Blevins, J. 2006c. Some notes on Nhanda, as spoken by Mrs. Lucy Ryder (1919-2003). Oceanic Linguistics 45: 242-46.

Blevins, J. 2006d. Reply to commentaries. Theoretical Linguistics 32:245-56.

Blevins, J. 2005. The typology of geminate inventories: Historical explanations for recurrent sound patterns. Seoul Linguistics Forum 2005. Seoul: Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. 121-37

Blevins, J. 2005. Some problems with Feature Economy: Labial fricatives, lone fricatives, and lost labials. Seoul Linguistics Forum 2005. Seoul: Language Education Institute, Seoul National University. 211-30.

Blevins, J. 2005. New perspectives on English sound patterns: 'Natural and 'Unnatural' in Evolutionary Phonology. Proceedings of 2005 KASELL. Seoul: Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics. 1-18.

Blevins, J. 2005. Convergence and divergence in Evolutionary Phonology: Beyond useful metaphors. Proceedings of the 3rd Seoul International Conference on Phonology. Seoul: Phonology-Morphology Circle of Korea. 32-62.

10 Reviews, Editions, Translations and Other Publications (cont.)

Blevins, J. 2005. (with A. Garrett and L. Conathan) (Compilers). Preliminary Yurok Dictionary. Klamath, CA: Yurok Tribe.

Blevins, J. 2004. Antigemination: natural or unnatural history? Proceedings of BLS 29. Pawel M. Nowak, Corey Yoquelet and David Mortensen (eds.).

Blevins, J. 2003a. Metathesis. Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd Edition. Willam Frawley, editor. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Blevins, J. 2003b. Teacher Training for Yurok Pre-school settings: Workshop for the Yurok Tribe. Yurok Tribe, Klamath, California.

Blevins, J. 2002-2004. (contributor). The Yurok Language Project at the University of California, Berkeley. www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~yurok

Blevins, J. 2002. Notes on sources of Yurok glottalized consonants. Proceedings of the Meeting of the Hokan-Penutian Workshop. L. Hinton and L. Buszard-Welcher eds. Survey of California and other Indian Languages, Report 11. 1-18.

Blevins, J. and A. Figueroa. 2002. Nee-kwech, Nee-kwech. Yurok Tribe, Klamath, California.

Blevins, J. 1998. (compiler) Nhanda Wangganhaa,Yamaji Language Centre, Geraldton.

Blevins, J. 1995. Review of Tonality in Austronesian Languages, J. A. Edmondson and K. J. Gregerson, eds., Oceanic Linguistics 34: 238-43.

Blevins, J. 1992. Review of An Essay on Stress by M. Halle and J.-R. Vergnaud, Language 68: 159-165.

Blevins, J. and A. Garrett. 1992. Ponapean Nasal Substitution: New Evidence for Rhinoglottophilia. Berkeley Linguistics Society 18, L. A. Buszard-Welcher, L. Wee and W. Weigel eds., 2-21.

Levin, J. 1988b. Generating Ternary Feet, Texas Linguistic Forum 29, D. Fruchter, J. Levin, and J. Liu eds., The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, 97-113.

Levin, J. 1988. (editor) With D. Fruchter and J. Liu, Texas Linguistic Forum 29, Department of Linguistics and The Center for Cognitive Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin.

Levin, J. 1987. Between Epenthesis and Excrescence: What Happens After Redundancy Rules," in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Volume 6, M. Crowhurst ed., The Stanford Linguistic Association. 187-201.

11 Reviews, Editions, Translations and Other Publications (cont.)

Levin, J. and D. Massam 1986. A Classification of Niuean Verbs, FOCAL I: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, P. Gerahgty, L. Carrington, and S.A. Wurm eds. Pacific Linguistics C-93, Canberra: The Australian National University.231-244.

Levin, J. 1985. Reduplication with Reference to Syllable Structure: Umpila," in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 6, D. Archangeli, A. Barss, and R. Sproat eds., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. 133-159.

Levin, J. and D. Massam. 1985. Surface Ergativity: Case/Theta Relations Reexamined. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, and J. McDonough eds., GLSA. 286-301.

Levin, J. 1984. (translator) With J. Pincus. Birth Reborn by Michel Odent , Pantheon Books, New York.

Levin, J. 1984. Case Linking, Predication and the Distribution of Empty Operators. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, C. Jones and P. Sells eds., Graduate Linguistic Students Association, Amherst. 294-305.

Levin, J. 1984. Conditions on Syllable Structure and Categories in Klamath Phonology. Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Volume 3, M. Cobler, S. MacKaye, and M. Wescoat eds., The Stanford Linguistics Assocation, Stanford. 158-169.

Levin, J. 1983. Government Relations and the Structure of INFL. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 5, I. Haik and D. Massam eds. 121-150.

Levin, J. 1983. Free Relatives and the Null-Head Parameter. Cornell University Working Papers in Linguistics, No. 4, W. Harbert ed., Cornell, Ithaca. 147-164.

Professional Organizations

Association for Linguistic Typology (Jury Member, Greenberg Award 2007) The Australian Linguistic Society (Vice-President, 1995-97) The Linguistic Society of America Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Travel Committee, 2005-07; Program Committee 2007-08; Nominating Committee 2008-2010)

Related Professional Activities (not including media interviews)

Invited Speaker, Preserving Aboriginal Languages, Digital Video Conference, March 2013, US State Department st Co-Organizer, Language Revitalization in the 21 Century: Going Global, Staying Local CUNY and Museum of the American Indian, NYC, May 31-June 1, 2013 Co-Organizer, Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages, CUNY, 2011 Associate Director, Linguistic Society of America 2007 Summer Institute, 2005-2007 Associate Editor, Oceanic Linguistics, 2002- Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Linguistics, 2010- Editorial Board, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 1992-99, 2005-2010 Lecturer, LSA Summer Institute, Stanford, 2007 Lecturer/Mentor, Breath of Life, University of California, Berkeley 2002, 2004 Lecturer, Teacher Training workshop for the Yurok Tribe, June, 2003 Lecturer, Australian Linguistic Insitute, LaTrobe University, 1994 Co-Organizer, 'Analogy in Grammar: Form and Acquisition', MPI-EVA, 2006 Organizer, Symposium on Evolutionary Phonology, AAAS 2005 Reviewer, - journals: Anthropological Linguistics, 1992-93; Australian Journal of Linguistics, 1992-; Cognitive Science, 2009-; Diachronica, 2005-; International Journal of American Linguistics 1991-2002; Journal of Phonetics, 2003-; Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2004-; Language, 1989-; Language Documentation & Conservation, 2008-; Language, Learning and Development, 2007-; Lingua, 2008-; Linguistic Typology, 2003-; Morphology, 2006-; Oceanic Linguistics, 1990-; Phonology, 1990-; Studies in Language, 2004-; Word Structure, 2006- Reviewer, - publishers: Linguistics, Benjamins, 2008-; Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 1999-; Linguistics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990-92; Linguistics, Oxford University Press, 2002-; Linguistics, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007- Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Linguistics Program, 1990- Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1987-92, 2004- Scientific Committee, LabPhon 10-15, 2007- Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University, 1995 Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Leipzig, 2004-05, 2005-06 Forensic Consultant, Belmont C.I.B., 1994. Linguistic Consultant, Buttercup Bakeries, 1994. Forensic Consultant, Western Australian Police Department, 1993.

University and Community Service

Acting Executive Officer, Linguistics Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Fall 2019 Director, Endangered Language Initiative, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2010- Co-Director, Endangered Language Alliance, 2010-2013 Faculty Advisory Committee, The Graduate Center 2017-18 Executive Committee, Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2010-14, 2015-17, 2019- Admissions and Awards Committee, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2010-2015, 2017-18 Curriculum and Examinations Committee, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 2010-12, 2017-18 Honours Examiner, Swarthmore College, 2012-2013 Executive Committee, University of Texas, Austin, 1986-89. Admissions Committee, UT Austin, 1986-92 (Chair, 1988-91). Library Committee, UT Austin, 1987-88. Linguistic Consultant, Yamaji Language Centre, 1993-98. Speech Science and Technology Organizing Committee, UWA, 1993-95. Phonological Consultant, Kimberley Language Resource Centre, 1994. Faculty Board Member, UWA, 1994-97. Course Advisor, Faculty of Arts, UWA 1994-95. Steering Committee, Faculty of Arts, UWA, 1994-95. Selection Committee, Teaching & Research Fellowships, UWA, 1995. Faculty Research Committee, University of Luton, 2000-2001. Governor, St. Matthews School, Cambridge, 2000-2002. Yurok language and culture lessons, Berkeley Arts Magnet School, 2002-2004. Ohlone language and culture lessons, Berkeley Arts Magnet School, 2003-2004. Bancroft Library Ohlone Language Revitalization Exhibit Organizer, 2004. Consultant, Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, 2003-2004.

14 Graduate Student Supervision

Dissertation Supervisor

Levergood, Barbara Jo. 1987. Topics in Arusa Phonology and Morphology. University of Texas at Austin [1987-1994, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, UC San Diego. MS in Library Science, 1996.] Sandler, Wendy. 1987. Sequentiality and Simultaneity in American Sign. University of Texas at Austin [Director, Sign Language Research Center, University of Haifa] Lin, Yen-Hwei. 1989. Autosegmental Treatment of Segmental Processes in Chinese Phonology. University of Texas at Austin [Professor, Dept. of Languages and Linguistics, Michigan State University] Kang, Hyunsook. 1990. Plane Separation and Plane Conflation inAutosegmental Phonology. University of Texas at Austin [Professor, English Language & Culture, Hanyang University] Mackay, Carolyn Joyce. 1991. A Grammar of Misantla Totonac. University of Texas at Austin [Professor, Languages and Linguistics, Ball State University] Lee, Borim. 1991. Issues in Takelma Phonology and Morphology. University of Texas at Austin [Professor & Director of Language Centre, Wankwang University] Rice, Curtis. 1992. Quantity Sensitivity in Metrical Theories of Stress. University of Texas at Austin [Professor & Director of Centre for Advanced Study in Theoretical Lingusitics, University of Tromsø.] Kim, Jong-Shil. 1992. Korean Lexical Phonology and Word Structure. University of Texas at Austin [Professor of English Linguistics, Inje University] Obrst, Leo. 1993. Aspects of the Syntax and Semantics of Coordination. University of Texas at Austin [Principal Scientist in Artificial Intelligence, Center for Innovative Computing Informatics, MITRE.] Henderson, John. 1998. The Phonology and Morphology of Arrernte, University of Western Australia. [Senior Lecturer, Linguistics, University of Western Australia] Li, Jian. 2013. The Rise of Disyllables in Old Chinese: The Role of Lian-Mian words. The Graduate Center, CUNY. [Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics] Cresci, Michela. 2014. The sound patterns of Camuno: description and explanation in Evolutionary Phonology. The Graduate Center, CUNY. [Distretto Culturale Valcamonica] Egurtzegi, Ander. 2014. Towards a phonetically ground diachronic phonology of Basque. UPV-EHU/University of the Basque Country. (J. Lakarra, co-sup.). [CNRS, Bayonne] Montoya, Ignacio. 2017. An investigation of the morphological root: Hebrew, Navajo, and Spanish compared. The Graduate Center, CUNY. [Department of English, University of Nevada, Reno] Olsen, Emily Long. 2018. The sound patterns of Kachok in the context of Bahnaric and North-Bahnaric Studies. The Graduate Center, CUNY. [Department of English & Linguistics, Truman State University] Kakadelis, Stephanie. 2018. Phonetic properties of oral stops in three languages with no voicing distinction. The Graduate Center, CUNY. [Mediacom Communications] Mann, Daniel. 2018. Stabilizing forces in acoustic cultural evolution: Comparing humans and birds. The Graduate Center, CUNY.

15 Dissertation Supervisor (cont.)

Hughes, Kevin. 2019. The synchronic and diachronic phonology of Nauruan. Towards a definitive classification of an understudied Micronesian language. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Pentangelo, Joseph. 2020. 360º Video and Language Documentation: Towards a Corpus of Kanien’kéha (Mohawk). The Graduate Center, CUNY. Macaulay, Benjamin K. In progress. Late-stage documentation, description and analysis of Formosan languages of Taiwan, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Barry, Daniel. In progress. The sound patterns of Kurdish: description and explanation in Evolutionary Phonology. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Nove, Chaya. (co-sup.with Bill Haddican) In progress. Phonetic contrast in New York Hasidic Yiddish peripheral vowels. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Shamim, Ahmed. In progress. Koda phonology and morphology: New perspectives on a Munda language of Bangladesh. The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Dissertation Committee Member

Kamprath, Christine. 1986. Suprasegmental Structures in a Raeto-Romansh Dialect: a Case Study of Metrical and Lexical Phonology. University of Texas at Austin Mphande, Lupenga. 1989. A Phonological Analysis of the Ideophone in ChiTumbuka , Oriental and African Languages and Literature. University of Texas at Austin Cooper, Gordon, Burns.1989. Mysterious Music: The Nature of Rhythm in Two Free Verse Poets , English. University of Texas at Austin Weeda, Don. 1991. A Formal Theory of Lexical Truncation. University of Texas at Austin McLaughlin, Fiona. 1992. Noun Classification in Seereer-Siin. University of Texas at Austin Elorrieta, Jabier. 1996. The Representation of Height Features in the Phonology. University of Texas at Austin Yu, Alan C. L. 2003. Infixation: a typology. University of California, Berkeley. Campbell, Eric. 2014. Aspects of the phonology and morphology of Zenzontepec Chatino, a Zapotecan language of Oaxaca, Mexico. University of Texas at Austin. Sabar, Nadav. 2015. A meaning hypothesis to explain speakers’ choice of the sign look. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Weaver, Christina. 2019. A multi-generational acoustic and sociolinguistic study of emphasis in Turoyo. University of Chicago.

16 M.A. Supervisor

At the University of Texas at Austin

Bohrer, William G. 1987. Desano Nasal Harmony and Lexical Phonology. Obrst, Leo. 1987. Stress and Related Phenomena in Djinang: Towards a Characterization of Metrical Structure. Kang, Hyunsook. 1987. Glide Formation and Compensatory Vowel Lengthening in Korean. Lai, Huann-jang. 1987. Anguthimri Vowel Harmony. Betlem, Yvonne. 1988. Issues in Frisian Phonology. Kim, Jong-Shil. 1988. Lexical Phonology and Morphology of Southeastern Tepehuan. O'Leary, Thomas. 1989. A Computational Perspective on Intra-word Bracketing. Elorrieta, Jabier. 1990. The Feature Specification of Uvulars. Anderson, Stephanie. 1991. Stress and Syllabification in Laz.

At The Graduate Center, CUNY

Reutzel, Meghan. 2010. The Role of Speaker Attitudes in Language Revitalization, Shamim, Ahmed. 2011. A reanalysis of Bengali vowel assimilation with special attention to metaphony. Hoss, Adam. 2011. The emergence of epenthetic consonants: A cross-linguistic survey. O’Donnell, Kyle. 2012. Ikota vowel hiatus patterns. Dorsett, Wendy. 2013. Comparing Japanese and Italian syllable structure. Graif, Peter. 2013. Grammar fluidity in Nepali Sign Language. Dobui, Bien. 2013. The morphophonology of Amuzgo plurals. Napodano, Justine. 2013. Reassessing directional typology. Hughes, Kevin. 2014. Tense, aspect and modality in the Garifuna verb. Macaulay, Benjamin K. 2014. Representational implications of the phonologization of contour tones. Albany, Katie. 2015. /n/: /r/ Correspondences in Albanian Dialects: Understanding the n > r sound change. Ronkos, Danielle. 2015. Obstruent voicing and tone in Siklis Gurung. Zalite, Linda. 2015. The incidence and evolution of palatalized consonants in Latvian. Gabriele, Jennifer C. 2018. English influence on L2 speakers' production of palatalization and velarization. Camacho, Lluvia. 2018. Purepecha aspirated consonants and their phonetic variants.

At other institutions

Lapiashvili, Keti. 2001. A comparative analysis of Georgian and English syllable structure. University of Luton.

Some Invited Talks

2019 Austronesian Formal Linguistic Association 26, University of Western Ontario

Recent Advances in Comparative Linguistic Reconstruction, SOAS, London

2018 Workshop on Emergence of Universals, The Ohio State University. “Phonological sonority scales as emergent properties of grammar”

Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania. “Evidence for the Proto- Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis”

Linguistics Colloquium, The University of Texas at Austin. “Advances in Proto- Basque Reconstruction”

2017 Phonology in Evolutionary Linguistics Seminar, The University of Tokyo (declined)

Workshop on the regularity principle in sound change: Approaching the Neogrammarian controversy in the 21st century. “The regularity of sound change in internal reconstruction: The case of Proto-Basque”, University of Cologne.

2016 Indo-European Seminar, University of Cambridge, England. “Advances in Proto- Basque Reconstruction and the Proto-Indo-European-Euskara Hypothesis”

International Chair, Labex EFL, 2016, Paris. Lecture series: "Evolutionary Phonology and Sound Change Typology".

LACITO's 40th Anniversary Conference: From Field to Theory, Paris. Keynote address "Sound Patterns and sound change: New Threads in the Panchronic Tapestry"

2015 Harvard Linguistics Circle, Cambridge, MA. “Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and the Proto-Indo-European-Euskara Hypothesis”

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Leipzig, Germany. “Phonological diversity: some implications for models of grammar”

2014 Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea /University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. “*m and *ph in Proto-Basque”

Encuentro International de Lingüística en el Noroeste XIII, University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico. “Areal sound patterns: perceptual magnets and stone soup” st 2013 21 International Conference of Historical Linguistics, Oslo, Norway. “Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction: Extensions of the CVC Root Theory” (with Ander Egurtzegi)

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Linguistics (for majors and non-majors) • Introduction to Phonetics (for majors and non-majors) • Phonology (all levels, including graduate seminars on the syllable, feature theory, metrical theory, Australian Aboriginal languages, Austronesian languages, Evolutionary Phonology) • Morphology (all levels) • Linguistic Typology (all levels) • Historical Linguistics • North American Indian Languages • Structure of English (for majors and non-majors) • The Yurok Language