Catherine O. Ringen

Professor and DEO
Co-editor Nordic Journal of Linguistics

Phone: 319-335-0212
Office: 564 EPB

Office Hours

M 11:30-12:30, T 10:30-12:30, and by appointment.

Fall 2009 Courses

Course #	Title	Location	Time
103:110:AAA	Articulatory & Acoustic Phonetics	203 BCSB	M 9:00-10:15
103:110:A01	Articulatory & Acoustic Phonetics	402 EPB	MW 10:30-11:20

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

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

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

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

"Phonetic Variation and Phonological Theory: German Fricative Voicing," in WCCFL 26 Proceedings (with Jill Beckman and Michael Jessen). 2006.

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

"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). 2004. Abstract

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

“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 M. 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). 2001.

"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). 2000.

"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). 1999.

Some unpublished papers

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

The Analysis of Geminates: The Evidence from Sinhala (with Robert Vago)
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Geminates: Heavy or Long? (with R. Vago)
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