Jill Beckman

Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies

Phone: 319-335-0214
Office: 555 EPB

Office Hours

W 11:30-2:30, and by appointment.

Spring 2009 Courses

Course #	Title	Location	Time
103:100:001	Introduction to Linguistics	204 EPB	TTh 9:30-10:45
103:112	Phonological Analysis	106 EPB	TTh 1:05-2:20

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
Constraint conjunction in Fyem
Contrast in Optimality Theory (with Catherine Ringen)

Some recent publications

To appear (with M. Jessen and C. Ringen) "German Fricatives: Coda Devoicing or Positional Faithfulness?" Phonology.

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.

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Revised February 2, 2009.