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.]

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