Catherine O. Ringen

Professor

 

Co-editor Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Co-editor Phonetics & Phonology section, Language and Linguistics Compass

email: catherine-ringen@uiowa.edu

Phone: 319-335-0212

Office: 564 EPB

Office Hours

MW 2:20-3:25, W 12:00-12:50, and by appointment

 

Spring 2012 Courses

Course #
Title
Location
Time
 103:011:AAA  Language and Society  107 EPB  MW 3:30-4:20
 103:203  Introduction to Phonology  402 EPB  MW 1:00-2:15

 

Education

  • BA (Linguistics), Indiana University, 1970
  • MA (Linguistics), Indiana University, 1972
  • Ph.D., (Linguistics), Indiana University, 1975

Areas of Specialization

  • phonology
  • phonetics
  • philosophy of linguistics

Current Research Projects

  • Laryngeal features in Germanic Languages
  • Laryngeal features in Turkish
  • Laryngeal features in Russian
  • Laryngeal features in Hungarian

Some recent publications

 

To appear . "Voicing in Russian stops: Cross-linguistic implications." Journal of Slavic Linguistics. (With Vladimir Kulikov.)

 

To appear . "The voicing contrast in Fenno-Swedish stops." Journal of Phonetics. (With Kari Suomi.)

 

2011. Approaches to Hungarian 12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (Edited with Tibor Laczkó.)

 

2011. "Geminates: Heavy or long?" Handbook of the Syllable, ed. by C. Cairns and E. Raimy, pp. 155-169. Leiden: Brill.

 

2011. "Rate effects on Swedish VOT: Evidence for phonological overspecification," Journal of Phonetics 39:39-49. (With Jill Beckman, Pétur Helgason, and Bob McMurray.)

 

2011. "The features [voice] and [spread glottis]," Phonological Studies 14, 119-128.

 

2010. "Quantity in Central Standard Swedish and Fenno-Swedish," Proceedings Fonetik 2011, ed. by S. Schö and G. Ambrazaitis, pp. 47-50. Lund: Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature. (With Pétur Helgason and Kari Suomi)

 

2009. "Fenno-Swedish VOT: Influence from Finnish?" Proceedings Fonetik 2009, 60-65. (With Kari Suomi.)


2009. "German Fricatives: Coda Devoicing or Positional Faithfulness?" Phonology 26 (2009), 231-268. ©Cambridge University Press. (With Jill Beckman and Michael Jessen.)


2008. "Voicing and Aspiration in Swedish Stops," Journal of Phonetics. (With Pétur Helgason.)

 

2007. "Regressive voice assimilation in Swedish," Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences XVI, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1357-1360. (With Pétur Helgason.)

 

2006. "Phonetic Variation and Phonological Theory: German Fricative Voicing," in WCCFL 26 Proceedings. (With J. Beckman and M. Jessen.)

 

2006. "Voice and Aspiration: Evidence from Russian, Hungarian, German, Swedish, and Turkish," The Linguistic Review. (With Olga Petrova, Rosemary Plapp, and Szilárd Szentgyörgyi.)

 

2004. "Contrast and Redundancy in Optimality Theory," in WCCFL 23 Proceedings. (With Jill Beckman.)

 

2004. "Distinctive [voice] Does Not Imply Regressive Assimilation: Evidence from Swedish," in P. Boersma & J. A. Cutillas Espinosa (eds.), International Journal of English Studies: Advances in Optimality Theory. (With Pétur Helgason.)

 

2004. "Voice and aspiration in Austrian German Plosives." Folia Linguistica XXXVIII/1-2, Special issue, Voicing, Grzegorz Dogil, editor,43-62 (With Sylvia Moosmüller.) Abstract

 

2002. "Laryngeal features in German," Phonology 19.2 (2002), 189-218. ©Cambridge University Press. (With Michael Jessen.)

2001. "Are there any underlying voiced stops in German?" in Caroline Féry, Antony Dubach Green & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), Proceedings of HILP5, 66-85, University of Potsdam. (With Michael Jessen.)

2001. "On the status of [voice] in German," in the Proceedings of WCCFL 20, K. Megerdoomian and L. A. Bar-el, (eds.), Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, 304-317. (With Michael Jessen.)

2000. "Icelandic Umlaut in Optimality Theory," Nordic Journal of Linguistics 23. (With Courtenay Gibson.)

2000. "Constraint reranking in the Szeged Dialect of Hungarian," in Gabor Alberti (ed.), Approaches to Hungarian, Vol. 7, Szeged:JATE Press 3-21. (With Szilard Szentgyörgyi.)

1999. "Aspiration, Preaspiration, Deaspiration, Sonorant Devoicing, and Spirantization in Icelandic," Nordic Journal of Linguistics 22:137-156.

1999. "Variation in Finnish vowel harmony: An OT account," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 17.2: 303-337. (With Orvokki Heinämäki.)

 

Some unpublished papers

Full text available by request. Send me e-mail: catherine-ringen@uiowa.edu

 

2010. "Empirical evidence for laryngeal features: German vs. true voice languages." Paper presented at the 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK. (With Jill Beckman and Michael Jessen.)

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