CURRICULUM VITAE Robert M. Vago

HIGHER EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles (Department of , 1966-1970) B.A. (Magna cum Laude) June 1970

Harvard University (Department of Linguistics, 1970-1974) M.A. November 1973 Ph.D. November 1974

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Administrative

Acting Chair, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, Spring 2019; Spring 2020

Associate Chair, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 2015 - 2018

Chair, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 2003 - 2015

Associate Chair, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 1997 - 2003

Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 1991 - 2015

Chair, Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, 1991-1997

Acting Chair, Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, 1987

Summer Session Supervisor, Department of Linguistics/Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 1975; 1985; 1987; 1991 – 2006; 2019; 2020

Full-Time Teaching

Professor, Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, CUNY, 1997 - present

Professor, Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, 1987-1997

Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, 1979-1986

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Queens College, CUNY, 1974-1978

(Also on the faculty of the Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 1974- present.)

Visiting and Part-Time Teaching

Adjunct Professor, , 1995

Visiting Professor, SUNY Stony Brook, 1989-1990

Associate Professor, Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, CUNY Graduate Center, Summer 1986

Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Tel-Aviv University, 1983-1984

Adjunct Professor, Queens College, CUNY Summer Session, 1987-2019

Adjunct Associate Professor, Queens College, CUNY Summer Session, 1979-1986

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY Summer Session, 1974-1978

HONORS

Honoring 45 years of scholarship on the sound structure of Hungarian, with implications for general phonological theory, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, April 3, 2018

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1991-1992

Faculty-in-Residence Award, Queens College, 1988

Senior Fulbright-Hays Scholar, Tel-Aviv University, 1983-1984

Scholar in Residence, Queens College, 1981

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., 1978

Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1971-1974

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University Scholarship, Harvard University, 1970-1972

NDEA Title VI Fellowship, UCLA, 1970

B.A. Magna cum Laude, UCLA, 1970

Phi Beta Kappa, UCLA, 1970

Departmental Scholar, UCLA, 1969

University Scholarship, UCLA, 1966-1970

GRANTS

Project Manager, New York State Department of Education Institutional Grant ($384,985), 2016

Co-Principal Investigator, New York State Department of Education Institutional Grant, ($1,552,528), 2015

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2014 - 2015

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2012 - 2013

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2011 - 2012

Workforce Development Initiative Grant, CUNY, 2008 – 2009; 2009 - 2010

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2007 - 2008

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2005 - 2006

PSC-CUNY Research Award, 2002 - 2003

PSC-CUNY Research Award (with Michael Newman), 1999 – 2000

City University of New York PSC-BHE Research Award, 1990-1991

City University of New York PSC-BHE Research Award (with Herbert W. Seliger), 1984 -1986

City University of New York PSC-BHE Award, 1977-1979

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PUBLICATIONS

Books

2010. Evelyn P. Altenberg and Robert M. Vago, English Grammar: Understanding the Basics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2009 Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago (Eds.), Approaches to Hungarian. Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1998 István Kenesei, Robert M. Vago, and Anna Fenyvesi, Hungarian. (Routledge Descriptive Series) London: Routledge.

1991 Herbert W. Seliger and Robert M. Vago (Eds.), First Attrition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1980 Robert M. Vago (Ed.), Issues in Harmony. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

1980 Robert M. Vago, The Sound Pattern of Hungarian. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.

Articles

2022 (To appear) “ in Uralic ,” (with Fejes László and Péter Siptár) in Nancy A. Ritter and Harry van der Hulst (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Vowel Harmony. Oxford: .

2018 “The Epistemic/Deontic Suffix -hat/het in Hungarian: Derivational or Inflectional?” in Huba Bartos, Marcel den Dikken, Zoltán Bánréti, and Tamás Váradi (Eds.), Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, , Pragmatics and Semantics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, pp. 67-83.

2017 “*VV in Hungarian,” in Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták (Eds.), Approaches to Hungarian. Vol. 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 239-251.

2015 "Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic or Phonological?” (with Mária Gósy) in Eric Raimy and Charles E. Cairns (Eds.), The Segment in and Phonology, Chichester, UK: WILEY Blackwell, pp. 267-282.

2011 “Geminates: Heavy or Long?” (with Catherine O. Ringen) in Charles E. Cairns and Eric Raimy (Eds.), Handbook of the Syllable, Leiden: Brill, pp. 155-169.

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2010 “Anticipatory Coarticulation in Hungarian VnC Sequences,” (with Mária Gósy and András Beke) Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 57. 189-209.

2007 “On the Realization of /r/,” (with Mária Gósy) in Jürgen Trouvain and William J. Barry (Eds.), 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Proceedings. Saarbrücken, Germany: Saarbrücken University, pp. 505-509.

2006 “Hungarian: Phonology,” in Keith Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 5, pp. 433-440.

2006 “Biography of Harry Hoijer (1907-76),” (with Miki Makihara) in Keith Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2nd Edition, Oxford: Elsevier, vol. 5, p. 364.

2004 “The Role of Grammaticality Judgments in Investigating First Language Attrition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective,” (with Evelyn P. Altenberg) in Monika S. Schmid, Barbara Köpke, Merel Keijzer, and Lina Weilemar (Eds.), First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 105-129.

1999 "Subsyllabic Constituency in Hungarian: Implications for Moraic Phonology and Government Phonology," (with Nancy Ritter) in John Rennison & K. Kühnhammer (Eds.), Phonologica 1996. Syllables!?, The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics, pp. 219- 245.

1998 “Hungarian Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) Phonology 15. 393-416.

1998 “Hungarian Roundness Harmony in Optimality Theory," (with Catherine O. Ringen) in Caspar de Groot and István Kenesei (Eds.), Papers From the Amsterdam Conference (Approaches to Hungarian, vol. 6.), Szeged: JATE, pp. 23-39.

1998 "Pótlónyúlás a magyarban - moraelméleti tanulságokkal," ("Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian: Implications for Mora Theory") Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok 19. 215-255.

1995 "A Constraint Based Analysis of Hungarian Vowel Harmony," (with Catherine O. Ringen) in István Kenesei (Ed.), Levels and Structures (Approaches to Hungarian, vol. 5.), Szeged: JATE, pp. 309-319.

1994 "Consonant Harmony," in R.E. Asher (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Pergamon Press, vol. 2, pp. 710-712.

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1994 "Vowel Harmony," in R.E. Asher (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Pergamon Press, vol. 9, pp. 4954-4958.

1992 "The Root Analysis of Geminates in the Moraic Phonology of Hungarian," in István Kenesei and Csaba Pléh (Eds.), The Structure of Hungarian (Approaches to Hungarian, vol. 4.), Szeged: JATE, pp. 177-194.

1992 "Theories of Rule Application in Generative Phonology," in Bela Brogyanyi (Ed.), Prehistory, History, and Historiography of Language, Speech, and Linguistic Theory, (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 64.) Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 183-203.

1991 "The Study of First Language Attrition: An Overview," (with Herbert W. Seliger) in Herbert W. Seliger and Robert M. Vago (Eds.), First Language Attrition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-15.

1991 "Paradigmatic Regularity in First Language Attrition," in Herbert W. Seliger and Robert M. Vago (Eds.), First Language Attrition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 241-251.

1991 "Elméleti szempontok a t-végu" igék elemzésében," ("Theoretical Perspectives in the Analysis of t-Final Verbs [in Hungarian]") in Jeno" Kiss and László Szu"ts (Eds.), Tanulmányok a magyar nyelvtudomány történetének témaköréből, (Studies in the History of Hungarian Linguistics), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, pp. 682-690.

1989 "Empty Consonants in the Moraic Phonology of Hungarian," Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 39. 293-316.

1989 "Underspecification in Danish Suffixes," (with Carolyn P. Sobel) CUNYForum 14. 198- 203.

1988 "Vowel Harmony in Finnish Word Games," in Harry van der Hulst and Norval Smith (Eds.), Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes (Part II), Dordrecht: Foris Publications, pp. 185-205.

1988 "Underspecification in the Height Harmony System of Pasiego," Phonology 5. 343-362.

1988 "From Segments to Autosegments: Nasalization in Sundanese," in Yishai Tobin (Ed.), The Prague School and Its Legacy, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 37-48.

1987 "A Multileveled Autosegmental Analysis of Vowel Harmony in Bari," (with K. E. Steinberger) in David Odden (Ed.), Current Approaches to African Linguistics (vol. 4), Dordrecht: Foris Publications, pp. 357-368.

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1987 "On the Autosegmental Analysis of Vowel Harmony in Turkana," (with Harry Leder) in David Odden (Ed.), Current Approaches to African Linguistics (vol. 4), Dordrecht: Foris Publications, pp. 383-395.

1987 "On the Status of /w/ in Hungarian Roots," Studia Uralica 4. 114-130.

1987 "On the Representation of Length," in Wolfgang W. Dressler, Hans C. Luschützky, Oskar E. Pfeiffer and John R. Rennison (Eds.), Phonologica 1984, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 319-324.

1986 "Paradigmatic Errors in First Language Attrition," CUNYForum 12. 204-214.

1985 "The Autosegmental Analysis of Neutral Segments in Harmony Systems," CUNYForum 11. 103-121.

1985 "The Treatment of Long in Word Games," Phonology Yearbook 2. 329-342.

1983 "Theoretical Implications of an Error Analysis of Second Language Phonology Production," (with Evelyn Altenberg) Language Learning 33. 427-447. (Reprinted in Georgette Ioup and Steven . Weinberger (Eds.), Interlanguage Phonology: The Acquisition of a Second Language Sound System, Cambridge, MA: Newbury House Publishers, 1987, pp. 148-164.)

1982 "Abstract /w/ in Hungarian," in Ferenc Kiefer (Ed.), Hungarian General Linguistics, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 589-599.

1981 "Non-Evidence for the Segmental Cycle in Klamath," (with Mark Feinstein) in D.L. Goyvaerts (Ed.), Phonology in the 1980's, Ghent: Story-Scientia, pp. 119-145.

1980 "Introduction," in Robert M. Vago (Ed.), Issues in Vowel Harmony, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. xi-xx.

1980 "A Critique of Suprasegmental Theories of Vowel Harmony," in Robert M. Vago (Ed.), Issues in Vowel Harmony, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 155-182.

1978 "The Lengthening of Final Low Vowels in Hungarian," Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 50. 144-148.

1978 "Conjunctivity in Overlapping Domains," in Wolfgang U. Dressler and Wolfgang Meid (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Linguists, Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, pp. 823-826.

1978 "Some Controversial Questions Concerning the Description of Vowel Harmony," Linguistic Inquiry 9. 116-125.

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1978 "On the Hierarchy of Boundaries," in Jeri J. Jeger et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 387-396.

1977 "On the Revised Simultaneous Rule Application Theory," in Woodford A. Beach, Samuel E. Fox and Shulamith Philosoph (Eds.), Papers from the Thirteenth Regional Meeting, Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 679-688.

1977 "In Support of Extrinsic Ordering," Journal of Linguistics 13. 25-41.

1977 "Extrinsic Ordering in Low Level Phonology," in Samuel E. Fox, Woodford A. Beach and Shulamith Philosoph (Eds.), The CLS Book of Squibs, Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, pp. 103-105.

1977 "A Study of English Second Language Phonology," (with Evelyn Altenberg) CUNYForum 3. 114-130.

1976 "Theoretical Implications of Hungarian Vowel Harmony," Linguistic Inquiry 7. 243-263.

1976 "Palatalization in Lithuanian: Evidence for the Feature [Advanced Tongue Body]," (with Joseph Di Fabio and Lawrence Sheerin) CUNYForum 1. 145-155.

1976 "On the Phonological Properties of Word Boundary," (with Mark Feinstein) CUNYForum 1. 205-215.

1976 "The OSV Construction in Aleut," (with Robert Underhill) CUNYForum 1. 216-225.

1976 "'Express' Ordering in Phonology," CUNYForum 1. 226-251.

1976 "More Evidence for the Feature [GRAVE]," Linguistic Inquiry 7. 671-674.

1973 "Abstract Vowel Harmony Systems in Uralic and Altaic Languages," Language 49. 579- 605.

Reviews

1994 Lajos Balogh and Miklós Kontra (Eds.), Studies in Spoken Hungarian: Proceedings of the Conference on Spoken Hungarian, Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, October 5-6, 1988, (Linguistica, Series A, Studia et Dissertationes, vol. 3.), Budapest: Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Studies in Applied Linguistics 1. 189-190.

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1984 Walt Wolfram and Robert Johnson, Phonological Analysis: Focus on American English, Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics; Language Learning 34. 119-124.

1978 Ronald Wardhaugh, Introduction to Linguistics, New York: McGraw Hill; The Modern Language Journal, April.

1978 Jessica R. Wirth (Ed.), Assessing Linguistic Arguments, New York: Halsted Press; The Modern Language Journal, April.

1977 Charles Wojatsek, Hungarian Textbook and Grammar, Oakville, Ontario: The Sovereign Press; The Modern Language Journal, September-October.

1975 Lóránd Benkő and Imre Samu (Eds.), The , The Hague: Mouton; Language 51. 481-489.

1973 József Tompa, Kleine ungarische Grammatik, Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó: Slavic and East European Journal 17. 360-361.

PUBLIC LECTURES

2017 “Vowel Epenthesis in Hungarian,” 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, June 29-30.

2016 Invited Speaker: “An Optimality Theoretic Account of Hungarian Inflections,” Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, May 31.

2015 “*VV in Hungarian,” 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, , The , May 22-23.

2013 Invited Speaker: "The Role of Linguistics in Teaching English as a Foreign Language," University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China, June 4.

Invited Speaker: "Hungarian Phonology and Morphology: Making the Case for Stratal Optimality Theory," Israeli Phonology Circle, Tel Aviv University, Israel, June 24.

Invited Speaker: "Stratal Optimality Theory: A Case Study of Hungarian Inflections," LACUS (Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States) Conference, Brooklyn College of CUNY, July 29-August 1.

Invited Speaker: "The Inflectional Phonology and Morphology of Hungarian in Stratal Optimality Theory," 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Piliscsaba, Hungary, August 29-31.

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2012 “Compensatory Lengthening in Hungarian VnC Sequences: Phonetic Or Phonological?” (with Mária Gósy) CUNY Phonology Forum: Conference on the Segment, CUNY Graduate Center, January 11-13.

Invited Speaker: “I am Bilingual - What Is Happening to My Native Language?” Brooklyn College, CUNY, May 1.

“Stratal Optimality Theory: The Right Model for Hungarian Inflections,” Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England, May 24-26.

Invited Speaker: “Turkish and English: Salient Differences in Sound, Word, and Sentence Structure,” Year of Turkey lecture series, Queens College, CUNY, March 7.

2011 Invited Speaker: “In Support of Stratal Optimality Theory: The x-Tier Phonology of Hungarian,” CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, December 1.

2011 “The Inflectional System of Hungarian in Stratal Optimality Theory,” 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Lund, Sweden, August 25-28.

2009 “A Case of Grounded Compensatory Lengthening,” (with Mária Gósy) 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Debrecen, Hungary, August 30 – September 1.

2008 Invited Speaker: “On the Phonology of Hungarian Inflections,” Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, April 22.

2008 “Geminates and Syllable Structure,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) CUNY Conference on the Syllable, CUNY Graduate Center, January 17-19.

2007 “On the Analysis of Lowering in Hungarian,” 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, May 24 - 27.

2007 “On the Realization of /r/,” (with Mária Gósy) 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 6-10.

2006 Invited Speaker: “The Analysis of Geminate Consonants: Heavy or Long?” Tel-Aviv University, Israel, May 25.

2004 “The Regularity of Language Loss in the Context of Bilingualism,” 29th Annual Conference of the American Hungarian Educators’ Association, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ, April 22 - 25.

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2004 Invited Speaker: “The Analysis of Geminates,” Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, January 15.

2003 "The Analysis of Geminates: Evidence from Sinhala,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England, May 24.

2003 “On the Analysis of Geminates,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) CUNY/NYU/SUNY Linguistics Mini-Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, , March 8.

2002 “The Weight vs. Length Analysis of Geminates,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) Ninth International Phonology Meeting: Structure and Melody, Vienna, Austria, November 1-3.

2002 Invited Speaker: “The Role of Grammaticality Judgments in Investigating First Language Attrition: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective,” (with Evelyn P. Altenberg) Keynote Address, International Conference on First Language Attrition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Methodological Issues, Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 22-24.

2002 “Geminates: Heavy or Long?,” (with Catherine O. Ringen) Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, January 3-6.

1996 "Subsyllabic Constituency in Hungarian: Implications for Moraic Phonology and Government Phonology," (with Nancy Ritter) Eighth International Phonology Meeting, Vienna, Austria, November 1-3.

1996 Invited Speaker: "Syllable Weight in Hungarian: Implications for Mora Theory," State University of New York at Stony Brook, October 18.

1996 "Hungarian Roundness Harmony in Optimality Theory," (with Catherine O. Ringen) Third International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 11-13.

1995 "Hungarian Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory," (with Catherine O. Ringen) Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA, January 5-8.

1995 Invited Speaker: "Basic Principles of Phonological Theory," Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary, June 6.

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1995 Invited Speaker: "Current Issues in Phonological Theory," Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary, June 7.

1995 Invited Speaker: "On the Description of English and Hungarian Sound Structure," Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary, June 8.

1995 Invited Speaker: "Bilingualism and First Language Attrition," Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen, Hungary, June 9.

1994 "A Constraint Based Analysis of Vowel Harmony in Hungarian," (with Catherine O. Ringen) Second International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Szeged, Hungary, April 12-14.

1993 "On the Root Structure of Geminates in Moraic Phonology," Linguistic Association of Great Britain, University of Birmingham, England, March 22-24.

1993 Invited Speaker: "The Analysis of Geminate Consonants in Moraic Phonology," New York University, May 6.

1993 Invited Speaker: "The Mora in Phonological Theory," International Linguistic Association, Hunter College, New York, May 8.

1993 Invited Speaker: "Vowel Epenthesis: A Moraic Solution," Research Institute of Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, November 8.

1991 Invited Speaker: "The Moraic System of Hungarian: The Evidence from Compensatory Lengthening," Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, November 7.

1991 Invited Speaker: "On the Rules of English," József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, November 6.

1991 Invited Speaker: "Syllable Structure in Hungarian," József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary, November 6.

1991 Invited Speaker: "On the Root Structure of Geminates in Moraic Phonology," University of Delaware, May 6, 1991

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1990 Invited Speaker: "On the Representation of Geminate Consonants," Ohio State University, May 4.

1989 Invited Speaker: "A Moraic Theory of Epenthesis," CUNY Graduate Center, October 19.

1988 "Underspecification Theory and the Analysis of /a/ in Height Harmony," Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, December 27-30.

1988 "On the Analysis of Vowel Quantity in Hungarian," Fifth International Congress of Hungarian Linguists, Budapest, Hungary, August 27-30.

1987 "Regularities in the History of Sranan Vocalism," (with William A. Stewart and R.M.R. Hall), 18th Conference on African Linguistics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, April 24-26.

1986 "Paradigmatic Errors in First Language Attrition," Linguistic Society of America, New York, December 27-30.

1986 "Empty Consonants in Hungarian," Annual Phonology Meeting, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, June 5-6.

1986 "On Neutral Vowels," Workshop on Phonological Features, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June 2-4.

1986 "Multitiered Harmony Planes," Workshop on Phonological Features, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, The Netherlands, June 2-4.

1986 "The Linguistic Attributes of L1 Attrition," Second Circle, New York University, April 11.

1986 "Paradigmatic Errors in First Language Attrition," Applied Linguistics Winter Conference, Hunter College, February 1.

1985 "The Autosegmental Analysis of Neutral Segments in Harmony Systems," Linguistic Society of America, Seattle, Washington, December 27-30.

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1985 Invited Speaker: "A Theory of Vowel Harmony," New York Academy of Sciences, May 6.

1985 "Finnish Word Games: Implications for the Autosegmental Treatment of Vowel Harmony," Southern California Conference on General Linguistics, University of California, San Diego, April 20-21.

1985 "A Multileveled Autosegmental Analysis of Vowel Harmony in Bari," (with K.E. Steinberger) 16th Conference on African Linguistics, Yale University, March 21-23.

1985 "Vowel Harmony in Turkana: A Multileveled Autosegmental Analysis," (with Harrry Leder) 16th Conference on African Linguistics, Yale University, March 21-23.

1985 "Nasalization in Sundanese: Linear or Nonlinear?" International Linguistic Association, New York University, March 9-10.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Morpheme Level Harmony in a Multitiered Autosegmental Framework," , December 19.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Degenerate CV Level Units and Hungarian Phonology," Cornell University, December 18.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Nonlinear Aspects of Hungarian Phonology," Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, July 18.

1984 Invited Speaker: "On Language Attrition," Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, July 10.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Autosegmental Theory and Hungarian Vowel Harmony," Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, July 6.

1984 "The Phonology of the Consonant v in Hungarian," Third Conference on Uralic Phonology, Eisenstadt, Austria, June 28-July 1.

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1984 "A Multileveled Autosegmental Theory of Vowel Harmony," Workshop on Vowel Harmony, Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Eisenstadt, Austria, June 25-28.

1984 "On the Representation of Length," Fifth International Phonology Meeting, Eisenstadt, Austria, June 25-28.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Hierarchical Autosegmental Phonology," University of Salzburg, Austria, June 22.

1984 "From Segments to Autosegments," Conference on "The Prague School and Its Legacy," The Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, May 21-22.

1984 Invited Speaker: "On the Framework of CV Phonology," Tel Aviv University, Israel, May 14.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Current Issues in Phonological Theory," University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 9.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Multileveled Harmony," University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 9.

1984 Invited Speaker: "On the CV Tier of Phonological Representations," University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 6.

1984 Invited Speaker: "An Analysis of Hungarian Native Language Attrition Data," University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 5.

1984 Invited Speaker: "Vowel Harmony and Autosegmental Phonology," Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 1.

1984 Invited Speaker: "On the Treatment of Harmony Processes," The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, February 13.

1982 Invited Speaker: "Language Attrition and Its Effects on Bilinguals," Queens College Linguistics Club, November 11.

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1982 "Cyclic Application and Multiple Application," (with Edwin Battistella) Linguistic Society of America, University of Maryland, College Park, July 30-August 1.

1982 Invited Speaker: "On Rule Formalism," University of Hawaii, July 7.

1982 "Some Issues Concerning the Application of Phonological Rules," (with Edwin Battistella) Conference on Phonological Distinctive Features, State University of New York, Stony Brook, June 13-14.

1982 "The Regular Nature of Vowel-Final Stems in Danish," (with Carolyn Sobel) International Linguistics Association, New York University, March 13-14.

1981 "Foreign Accents: A Pilot Study of Second Language Phonology Acquisition," (with Evelyn Altenberg) Applied Linguistics Winter Conference, Columbia University, February 13.

1979 "Vowel Deletion in Klamath: Implications for Rule Application," Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, December 27-30.

1979 Invited Speaker: "Vowel Deletion in Klamath: Implications for Rule Application," CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, October.

1979 "Vowel Deletion in Klamath: Implications for Rule Application," Fifth Annual Minnesota Regional Conference on Language and Linguistics, University of Minnesota, May.

1979 Invited Speaker: "Non-Linear Rule Application in Phonology," Language Colloquium Series, University of Iowa, May.

1978 Invited Speaker: "Some Problems in Current Phonological Theory," University of California, Los Angeles, January.

1978 Invited Speaker: "Topics in the Theory of Phonology," University of Southern California, January.

1977 "The Application of Rule Schemata," Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, December 27-30. 16

1977 "Conjunctivity in Overlapping Domains," International Congress of Linguists, Vienna, Austria, September.

1977 Invited Speaker: "How to Expand Abbreviated Rules," Tel Aviv University, Israel, August.

1977 "A Critique of Suprasegmental Theories of Vowel Harmony," Conference on Vowel Harmony, CUNY Graduate Center, May.

1977 "On the Revised Simultaneous Rule Application Theory," Chicago Linguistic Society, April.

1977 Invited Speaker: "On Theories of Rule Application in Phonology," University of Southern California, January.

1974 "Theoretical Implications of Hungarian Vowel Harmony," Linguistic Society of America, New York, December 27-30.

1974 Invited Speaker: "Theoretical Implications of Hungarian Vowel Harmony," CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, April.

1974 Invited Speaker: "Local Ordering in Hungarian," CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, November.

1973 "The OSV Construction in Aleut," (with Robert Underhill) American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November.

1973 "In Defense of Extrinsic Ordering in Phonology," Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, December 27-30.

1972 "Abstract Vowel Harmony Systems in Uralic and Altaic Languages," North East Linguistic Society, Amherst, MA, October.

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Director of Teacher Certification Office Search Committee, School of Education (College), Spring 2017

Dean of Arts and Humanities Search Committee (College), 2012-2013

Executive Committee, School of Education (College), 2010 - 2011

Quantitative Reasoning Task Force (College), 2009 - 2010

Subcommittee on Tenure and Promotion of the Personnel and Budget Committee (College), 2009 - 2011

Provost Search Committee (College), 2008 – 2009

Strategic Planning Committee (College), 2008

Ad Hoc Committee on Certificate of Continuous Employment (College), 2007-2008

Ad Hoc Committee on Half Year / Full Pay Fellowship Leaves (College), 2005 – 2009

Secretary, Division of Arts and Humanities Personnel and Budget Committee (College), 2006- 2007

Search Committee, Dean of Graduate Studies (College), 2006 - 2007

Academic Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Languages (College) 2005 - 2006

Professional Education Council (College), 2005 - 2006

Search Committee, Dean of Education (College), 2003

Undergraduate Scholastic Standards Committee (College), 1996 - 1998 18

Search Committee, Dean of Education (College), 1997 - 1998

Task Force on Administration and Organization, Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (College), 1994-1995

Publications Committee (Program), 1993-1994

Executive Committee of the Personnel and Budget Committee (College), 1992-1995

Graduate Admissions Committee (Department), 1992-2015

Curriculum and Examination Committee (Program), 1988-1994

Ad Hoc Retention Committee (Program), 1988

Executive Officer Search Committee (Program), 1987

Colloquia and Social Affairs Committee (Program), 1985-1986

Publications Committee (Program), 1985-1987; 1990-1991

Phi Beta Kappa Liaison (Department), 1985-2022

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Department), 1982-1984

Faculty Group for Research in Applied and Urban Linguistics (Program), 1981-1983

Faculty Membership Committee (Program), 1981-1983

First Examination Committee (Program), 1980-1982

Faculty Committee on Research and Sponsored Programs (College), 1978-1981

Second Examination Committees (Program), 1976-1978

Executive Committee (Program), 1976-1980; 1986-1990; 1993-1995

Foreign Students Affairs Committee (College), 1976

Admissions and Awards Committee (Program), 1975-1981; 1985-1988; 1990-1991; 1993-1994

Assistant Chair for School of General Studies (Department), 1975

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Library Committee (Program), 1974-1975; 1984-1986

Library Liaison (Department), 1971-1997

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Ad Hoc Referee, Reader, or Consultant: City University of New York PSC-BHE Research Program; National Science Foundation; Research Council of Canada; Language; Phonology; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistics; National Endowment for the Humanities; Oxford University Press; Nelson Canada; Edward Arnold Publishers; West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics; Eastern States Conference on Linguistics

Founding Editor, CUNYForum, Ph.D. Program in Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center, 1976- 1987

Session Chair, Queens College Summer Conference on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning, 1975

Chair and organizer, Conference on Vowel Harmony, CUNY Graduate Center, 1977

Session Chairman, Ninth Meeting of the North-East Linguistic Society, CUNY Graduate Center, 1978

Outside Examiner, Critical Languages Program, Kent State University, 1978-1992

Special Assessment Evaluator, Regents External Degree Program, The University of the State of New York, Albany, 1980

Outside Evaluator, Empire State College, State University of New York, 1986

Session Chair, Winter Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, 1986

Member, Dictionary of American English Pronunciation Planning Group, CUNY Graduate Center, 1985-1987

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Session Chair, Winter Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, 1988

Examiner, FOLA (Critical Languages), University of Maryland, 1988

Chair, Session on Second Language Acquisition, American Association for Applied Linguistics, New York, 1991

Chair, Session on Language Attrition, American Association for Applied Linguistics, New York, 1991

Panelist, Fellowships for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993; 1996; 1997

Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America, New York, 1998

Session Chair, 28th Annual Conference of New York State Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Buffalo, 1998

Panelist, TESL National Screening Committee, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, 2003-2004

Session Chair, CUNY Symposium on Phonological Theory, CUNY Graduate Center, 2004

Session Chair, 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, May 24 - 27, 2007

Session Chair, CUNY Phonology Forum Conference on Precedence Relations, CUNY Graduate Center, 2007

Co-organizer, 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, CUNY Graduate Center and New York University, May 24 - 27, 2007

Editorial Committee, Beszédkutatás [Speech Research], 2007 - 2013

Advisory Committee, CUNY Phonology Forum, CUNY Graduate Center, January 17-19, 2008 21

Session Chair, CUNY Conference on the Syllable, CUNY Graduate Center, January 17-19, 2008

Session Chair, 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, Debrecen, Hungary, August 30 – September 1, 2009

Linguistics Program Outside Evaluator, Office of the Provost, Brooklyn College of CUNY, December 2009

Session Chair, Conference on the Word in Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center, January 14-15, 2010

Session Chair, CUNY Conference on the Phonology of Endangered Languages, CUNY Graduate Center, January 12-14, 2011

Session Chair, CUNY Phonology Forum: Conference on the Segment, CUNY Graduate Center, January 11-13, 2012

Search Committee, Dean of Arts & Humanities, Queens College, 2012-2013

Session Chair, CUNY Phonology Forum: Conference on the Feature, CUNY Graduate Center, January 16-18, 2013

Session Chair, 43rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, CUNY Graduate Center, April 17-19, 2013

Linguistics Program Outside Evaluator, Brigham Young University, November 2013

Session Chair, CUNY Phonology Forum: Conference on Weight in Phonetics and Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center, January 16-17, 2014

Session Chair, CUNY Phonology Forum: Conference on Multilingual Phonology, CUNY Graduate Center, January 15-16, 2015

Search Committee, Director of Accreditation, School of Education, Queens College, January 2017

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