Jill Beckman
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Co-editor Phonetics & Phonology section, Language & Linguistics Compass
email: jill-beckman@uiowa.edu
Phone: 319-335-0214
Office: 555 EPB
Office Hours
W 10:00-1:00, and by appointment
Spring 2012 Courses
| Course
# |
Title |
Location |
Time |
| 103:020 | Introduction to the Study of Language | 104 EPB | TTh 12:30-1:45 |
| 103:161 | Practical Phonetics | 402 EPB | TTh 9:30-10:45 |
Education
- BA (Linguistics) Michigan State University, 1989
- MA (Linguistics) The Ohio State University, 1991
- Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1998
Areas of Specialization
- Phonology
- Phonetics
- Optimality Theory
Current Research Projects
- Positional neutralization and positional faithfulness in Optimality Theory
- The Coda Condition
- Laryngeal features and laryngeal contrast
Some recent publications
2011 (With P. Helgason, B. McMurray and C. Ringen) "Rate Effects on Swedish VOT: Evidence for Phonological Overspecification," Journal of Phonetics 39:39-49.
2009 (With M. Jessen and C. Ringen) "German Fricatives: Coda Devoicing or Positional Faithfulness?" Phonology 26 (2009), pp. 231-268. ©Cambridge University Press.
2006 (with M. Jessen and C. Ringen) "Phonetic Variation and Phonological Theory: German Fricative Voicing," in WCCFL 26 Proceedings.
2004 (with Catherine Ringen) "Contrast and Redundancy in Optimality Theory," in WCCFL 23 Proceedings.
2004 "The Case for Local Conjunction: Evidence from Fyem," in WCCFL 22 Proceedings, ed. by M. Tsujimura & G. Garding, pp. 56-69.
2004 "Positional Faithfulness," in Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader, ed. by J. McCarthy, pp. 310-342.
2002 "Partial Reduplication and Emergent Unmarkedness in Igbo Reduplication," in WCCFL 20 Proceedings, ed. by K. Megerdoomian & L.A. Bar-el, pp. 68-81.
1999 (With John Alderete, Laura Benua, Amalia Gnanadesikan, John McCarthy and Suzanne Urbanczyk.) "Reduplication and Segmental Markedness," Linguistic Inquiry 30:327-364.
1997 "Positional Faithfulness, Positional Neutralisation, and Shona Vowel Harmony," Phonology 14.1.
