Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics Group
The University of Arizona
The Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics Group
Principal Investigators:
Andrew Carnie[carnie AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] | [web page] Andrew Carnie, Professor of Linguistics, is the principle investigator of the National Science Foundation funded Arizona Scottish Gaelic Phonology and Phonetics Project. He got his Ph.D. in 1995 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked at the University of California Santa Cruz, The University of Michigan, The University of Calgary, Harvard University, MIT and for the last 9 years at the University of Arizona. His interests center primarily on Syntactic Theory, with a special interests in Case, the morphology-syntax interface, phrase structure, and verb initial language. He is the author or editor of six books, including the popular textbook from Blackwell-Wiley: Syntax: a Generative Introduction, as well as numerous articles. Dr. Carnie has worked extensively on Irish through the years, but is thrilled to be able to return to his first language love Scottish Gaelic. |
Diana Archangeli[dba AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] Diana Archangeli, Professor, earned her PhD in 1984 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been a member of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona since 1985. Her research interests center on Phonological Theory, with special interests in representations, features, harmony, prosodic templates, and emergence. She directs the Arizona Phonological Imaging Lab, which uses ultrasound to image the tongue's movements during the articulation of speech sounds. Her participation in this project is her first close encounter with a Celtic language. |
Muriel Fisher[murielf AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] | [web page] Muriel Fisher is a native speaker of Scottish Gaelic and a Research Scientist Sr. |
Mike Hammond[hammond AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] | [web page] Mike Hammond, Professor and Department Head of Linguistics got his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He has worked at the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and for the last 21 years at the University of Arizona. His interests include phonology, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, morphology, poetic meter, and language games. He is the author or editor of five books, as well as numerous articles. Mike has a newfound love of Welsh and is very much enjoying working on Scots Gaelic. |
Natasha Warner[nwarner AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] | [web page] Dr. Warner is an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Arizona, Tucson. She also has appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program, and the Department of East Asian Studies. Her research is in the areas of phonetics, experimental phonology, and psycholinguistics, focusing on speech perception. Her current research is primarily on speech reduction. She directs the Douglass Phonetics Lab. She also works on language revitalization for the dormant Native American language Mutsun (Costanoan, formerly spoken in coastal California). Language interests: Japanese, Dutch, and Mutsun, as well as Scottish Gaelic. |
Graduate Student Research Assistants:
| Micaya Clymer, [mclymer AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] |
Andrea Davis[davisak AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] Andréa Davis is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is broadly interested in phonetics and phonology, and particularly in early acquisition and speech perception. She earned her MA at the University of Utrecht, where she worked on the effects of misperception on a computational model of speech segmentation. Working on the Scots Gaelic Phonology Project is her first time working with a Celtic language. |
Colin Gorrie[gorrie AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] Colin Gorrie is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He earned his B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Toronto in 2008. His main theoretical research interests are in morphosyntax and morphophonology: Colin is currently working on a project examining the theoretical status of consonant mutations cross-linguistically. He has been involved with Celtic languages since 2005. |
Lionel Mathieu[liomat AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] Lionel Mathieu is a second year graduate student in the Linguistics PhD program at the University of Arizona. He earned a B.A. in English Linguistics from St. Cloud State University (St. Cloud, MN), with minors in French and Teaching English as a Second Language. His academic interests primarily pertain to phonology with focus on metrical and prosodic phonology, prosodic morphology and the adult L2 acquisition of phonology. He is a native speaker of French. |
Jessamyn Schertz[jschertz AT u DOT arizona DOT edu] Jessamyn is a graduate student in Linguistics at the University of Arizona studying phonology and phonetics, with a minor in Second Language Teaching and Acquisition. She is currently on a leave of absence to work with the Sound to Sense project at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where she is working on the transcription and analysis of fine phonetic detail in conversational speech corpora. |
Outside Consultants:
Anna Bosch (UKY)Boyd Robertson (SMO)