Dr. Nancy Hall
Title: Assistant Professor
Office Location: PSY 217
Phone Number: (562) 985- 2656
E-mail Address: nhall2@csulb.edu
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree: Johns Hopkins University, Near Eastern Studies, 1997.
Ph.D.: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Linguistics, 2003.
Teaching/Research Interests:
My research is in phonology and phonetics. Recent projects include a study of r-dissimilation in American English and an acoustic phonetic study of epenthetic vowels in several Levantine Arabic dialects. I have also worked on the phonology of intrusive vowels: phonetic transitions between consonants that sound vowel-like yet do not behave as vowels in the phonology.
I have taught courses in language acquisition and phonology.
Courses Taught:
LING 329: Language Acquisition
LING 625: Seminar in Phonetics and Phonology
Publications and Professional Presentations:
2008. (with Maria Gouskova) An acoustic study of epenthetic and underlying vowels in Lebanese Arabic. In Steve Parker, ed., Phonological Argumentation Essays on Evidence and Motivation. Equinox.
R-dissimilation in American English. Presented at Manchester Phonology Meeting, May 2007.
2006. Cross-linguistic patterns of vowel intrusion. Phonology 23: 387-429.
2007. Lexical selection for left-edge stress in children. In L. Bateman, M. O’Keefe, E. Reilly and A. Werle, eds., Papers in Optimality Theory3. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
2001. MAX-Position drives iterative footing. In K. Megerdoomian and L. A. Bar-el, eds, WCCFL 20 Proceedings, pp. 248-261. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Professional Activities, Awards, & Affiliations:
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 1998-2001.
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