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American linguist (born 1960)

Juliette Blevins
BornJuliette Levin
1960 (age 64–65)
Citizenship
  • United States
  • Australia
Children3
Academic background
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
ThesisA Metrical Theory of Syllabicity (1985)
Websitehttp://julietteblevins.ws.gc.cuny.edu/

Juliette Blevins (née Levin; born 1960) is an American linguist whose work has contributed to the fields of phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, and typology. She is currently professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Career

Blevins received her PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985.

She worked as the senior research scientist at the department of linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig from 2004-2010. She has also worked as a professor at University of California, Berkeley, University of Luton, University of Western Australia, and University of Texas at Austin before joining the faculty of CUNY in 2010.

Research

Blevins's research spans several sub-disciplines and features Austronesian, Australian Aboriginal, Andamanese, Native American languages, and more recently Basque. She is the founder of the approach of Evolutionary phonology. 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.

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

Honors

In 2020, Blevins was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.

She is the director of the Endangered Language Initiative, co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, and a co-founder of the Yurok Language Project.

Select publications

References

  1. "Faculty". www.gc.cuny.edu. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  2. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  3. "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  4. "Who | Endangered Language Alliance". elalliance.org. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
  5. "Juliette Blevins". scholar.google.com. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  6. "IE and Basque".
  7. ^ Blevins, Juliette (2004). Evolutionary Phonology: The Emergence of Sound Patterns. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521804288.
  8. "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  9. "Endangered Language Initiative". CUNY. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  10. "Yurok Language Project". UC Berkeley. Retrieved February 26, 2017.

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