Jerold A. Edmondson, Professor of Linguistics and

Member of the Academy of Distinguished Scholars

University of Texas at Arlington

Holding lecture at the UCLA Center for SEAsian and East Asian Studies, April 2007

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ADDRESS: Dept. of Linguistics and TESOL, Box 19559
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019 USA (817) 272 3133
email: j.edmondson@sbcgobal.net

COURSES BEING TAUGHT SPRING 2008

LING 5322 Laboratory Phonology

SPECIAL PROJECTS

bai-yi-kabiye-akan

Lesser Known Languages of Northern Vietnam

Supralaryngeal cavity shape, linguistic register, and other phonetic features of Somali

Somali videoimages for "Supralaryngeal cavity shape..."

Dinka Voice Qualities

La fuerza articulatoria en la fonética del idioma Triqui de Chicahuaxtla

The power of language over the past: Tai settlement and Tai linguistics in southern China and northern Vietnam appeared in Studies in Southeast Asian languages

and linguistics, ed. by Jimmy G. Harris, Somsonge Burusphat and James E. Harris, 39–64. Bangkok, Thailand: Ek Phim Thai Co. Ltd.

A laryngoscopic study of glottal and epiglottal/pharyngeal stop and continuant articulations in Amis--anAustronesian language of Taiwan

Video images for the paper "A laryngoscopic study of glottal and epiglottal/pharyngeal stop and continuantarticulations in Amis--  an Austronesian language of Taiwan "

Voice quality and theAryepiglotticFolds in Bai and Yi   appeared in Mon-Khmer Studies 31.83-93.

Bai video images "Bai andYi voice quality and the aryepiglottic folds"

Tibeto-Burman languages of Vietnam:  Comparative Vocabulary

Sui Phonetics appeared inMon-KhmerStudies 34.47-66.

Figures for Sui phonetics

Video images of Sui phonetics

李锦芳 艾杰瑞.  2007. 中越边境的红仡佬语及其初步比较.  民族语言

 

EXPERIENCE:

2001 Visiting Fellow, National Thai Studies Centre, AustralianNational University,Canberra, Australia

1998 Visiting Professor, Institute of Language and Culturefor Rural Development, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

1997 Honorary Professor, Central Universityof Nationalities, Beijing,China

1981-present University of Texas at Arlington, currently Professor of Linguistics

1980 Texas A&M University Visiting Professor

1973-79 TechnicalUniversity Berlin, Dr.Phil. Habilitation, General Linguistics

1973-75 University of Bielefeld, Post Doc Fellow, Visiting Asst Professor

1970-73 Universityof California, LosAngeles, Ph.D. Germanic Languages 1973

1967-69 Universityof California, LosAngeles, M.A. German1969

1959-63 PurdueUniversity, B.S. Physics1963

INTERESTS:

SE Asian minority languages, China,Laos, Myanmar,Thailand, and Vietnam

historical comparative linguistics

syntactic and semantic theory

linguistic universals

biological/neurological aspects of lg.

Germanic linguistics

SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH:

李锦芳 艾杰瑞.  2007. 中越边境的红仡佬语及其初步比较.  民族语言 3.1-7.

Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 2007. The languages of Vietnam: Mosaics and expansions.  Language and Linguistics Compass 1/6 (2007):

727–749, 10.1111/j.1749-818x.2007.00033.x

 

Jerold A. Edmondson. 2007. The power of language over the past: Tai settlement and Tai linguistics in southern China and northern Vietnam. In J. G. Harris, S. Burusphat, and James E. Harris

(eds.) Studies in Southeast Asian Linguistics.  Bangkok.

 

Jerold A. Edmondson and John H. Esling.  2006. The valves of the throat and their functioning in tone, vocal register and stress: laryngoscopic case studies. Phonology 23.2.157-91.

William R. Merrifield and Jerold A Edmondson. 1999. Palantla Chinantec: Nasalization, stress, and tone. International Journal of AmericanLinguistics 65.3.303-23.

Jerold A. Edmondson and David B. Solnit (eds.)1997.Comparative Kadai: the Tai Branch. UTA/SIL No. 124. Series in Linguistics: Dallas.

Nguyen Van Loi and Jerold A. Edmondson. 1997. Tones andVoiceQuality in modern northern Vietnamese: instrumental case studies. MonKhmerStudies 28.1-18.

Jerold A. Edmondson. 1994. Change and variation in Zhuang.  K. Adams and Th. Hudak (eds.) Papers from the Second Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian LinguisticsSociety 1992. Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University,Tempi. 147-85.

Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson (eds.).1993.Tonality in Austronesian languages. Oceanic Linguistics SpecialPublications No. 24. Universityof Hawaii Press. 177 pps.ISBN 0-8248-1530-0.

Elliott D. Ross, Jerold A. Edmondson, G. BurtonSeibert,Jin-Lieh Chan. 1992. Affective exploitation of tone in Taiwanese: Anacoustical study of "tone latitude". Journal of Phonetics 20.441-56.

Complete CV


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