Megan Crowhurst

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Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.

Career

Crowhurst earned her BA in linguistics at the University of British Columbia (1985) and the MA and PhD at the University of Arizona (1989 and 1991).[1] She has held academic positions at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.[2]

She works in the area of

Tupi-Guarani languages in Bolivia and speakers of Zapotec
in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Honors and distinctions

Crowhurst was a member of the

Selected publications

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2019. The Iambic/Trochaic Law: Nature or Nurture? Language and Linguistic Compass.

doi:10.1121/1.5025325
Megan Crowhurst. 2016. Iambic-Trochaic law effects among native speakers of Spanish and English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 7(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.42
Megan Crowhurst and Sara Trechter. 2014. Vowel-rhotic metathesis in Guarayu. International Journal of American Linguistics 80, 127–173. https://doi.org/10.1086/675421

Megan Jane Crowhurst and Lev D. Michael. 2005. Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa). Language 81(1), 47-95. https://doi.org10.1353/lan.2005.0013

References

  1. ^ University of Arizona, UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/185652
  2. ^ "UT College of Liberal Arts".
  3. ^ "Google Scholar Megan Crowhurst". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  4. ^ Foundation for Endangered Languages, https://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/74.htm
  5. ^ Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, http://www.ling.wisc.edu/wilma/history.php
  6. ^ Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty. 2007. Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women. P. 165. University of Michigan Press.
  7. ^ LSA October 2000 Bulletin, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA%20Bulletin%20170%20December%202000.pdf
  8. ^ Darlene Superville, "Half of world's 6,800 languages face extinction," Augusta Chronicle, June 21, 2001. http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/06/21/ent_314307.shtml
  9. ^ CBSNews.com staff, "The Death Of Languages," June 19, 2001 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-languages/
  10. ^ "Language".
  11. ^ "Phonological Data and Analysis".
  12. ^ "Nine to be Inducted as Fellows of the LSA | Linguistic Society of America".

External links

LSA Member Spotlight: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/january-2016-member-spotlight-megan-crowhurst

Video, "Beyond the Iambic-Trochaic Law": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wiCzy4YBA

Faculty page at UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/crowhurs

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America—South American Languages Collection of Megan Crowhurst: