Juliette Blevins

Juliette Blevins
Juliette Blevins
Nationality	American
	Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Website	http://julietteblevins.ws.gc.cuny.edu/

Juliette Blevins (born 1960) is an American linguist whose work has contributed to the fields of

Graduate Center, CUNY.^[1]

Career

She worked as the senior research scientist at the department of linguistics at the

University of Luton, University of Western Australia, and University of Texas at Austin before joining the faculty of CUNY in 2010.^[4]

Blevins's research spans several sub-disciplines and features Austronesian, Australian Aboriginal, Native American, and Andamanese languages.^[5] She is the founder of the approach of Evolutionary phonology.^[6] This approach seeks to explain the cross-linguistic similarity of sound patterns by examining the regular processes of sound change. This approach argues that many common sound patterns in contemporary phonologies are not necessarily reflections of underlying universal properties of languages, but rather the result of sound changes that are guided by the common tendencies of language transmission.^[6]

In 2001, Blevins published a sketch grammar of Nhanda, based on her work with the last remaining speakers.

In 2020, Blevins was inducted as a

She is the director of the Endangered Language Initiative,[8] co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance,^[2] and a co-founder of the Yurok Language Project.^[9]

2001. Nhanda: An Aboriginal language of Western Australia. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications in Linguistics, Number 30. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.
2004. Evolutionary phonology: The emergence of sound patterns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2007. "Endangered sound patterns: Three perspectives on theory and description." Language Documentation and Conservation 1: 1-16.
2007. "The importance of typology in explaining recurrent sound patterns." Linguistic Typology 11:107-113.
2009. "Another universal bites the dust: Northwest Mekeo lacks coronal phonemes." Oceanic Linguistics 48: 264-73.
2009. "Low vowel dissimilation outside Oceanic: The case of Alamblak." Oceanic Linguistics 48:2: 477-83.
2010. "Saving endangered languages in the United States. A Living Legacy: Preserving Intangible Culture." Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. 6-10.
2012. "Duality of patterning: Absolute universal or statistical tendency? Archived 2018-02-12 at the Wayback Machine" Language and Cognition 4: 275-96. Special issue. Bart de Boer, Simon Kirby, and Wendy Sandler (eds.).

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^ "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
^ "Endangered Language Initiative". CUNY. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
^ "Yurok Language Project". UC Berkeley. Retrieved 26 February 2017.