Ellen Kaisse, currently Divisional Dean of
Arts and Humanities, has been a professor of linguistics at the
University of Washington since 1976. She received her PhD in linguistics
from Harvard University in 1977. Her research is in the area of
phonology (the sound patterns of human languages) and she concentrates
her work on Modern Greek, Spanish (especially the dialects of
Argentina), and Turkish. She is the author of the book Connected
Speech: the interaction of syntax and phonology, joint editor
of two volumes, and the author of numerous articles, most recently
‘Word formation and phonology’ (2005) in Handbook
of word-formation. She has co-edited the journal Phonology (Cambridge
University Press) since 1988 and serves on the executive committee
of the Linguistic Society of America. In her spare time she sings
alto in the Seattle Chamber Singers and takes care of her dog,
cats, and, the most recent arrivals, 3 Chilean chickens (Dulcinea,
Huerita, and Lucita).
Work with a lab component includes research on a falling intonational
contour in Argentinean Spanish. [The long fall: an intonational
melody of Argentinian Spanish, in Features and interfaces in Romance,
Herschensohn, Mallen and Zagona eds., 2001, 147-160.]
For a full cv, please go to : http://faculty.washington.edu/kaisse/
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