Jerold A. Edmondson, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
University of
Texas Arlington
Holding lecture at The Central University of Nationalites, Beijing 2011
ADDRESS: Dept. of
Linguistics and TESOL, Box 19559
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX 76019 USA (817) 272 3133
email: edmondson@uta.edu
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Plosives and Applosives in Taiwanese and Vietnamese: Laryngoscopie Case Studies
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 articulatoría
en la fonética del idioma Triqui de Chicahuaxtla
Valves of the Throat
for describing Taiwanese and Vietnamese initials/finals :
laryngoscopic case studies
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
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 in Mon-KhmerStudies 34.47-66.
Notes on the subdivisions of Kra
EXPERIENCE:
2009 Researcher in Monsoon Asia Project Dept of Linguistics at National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
2001 Visiting Fellow, National Thai Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1998 Visiting Professor, Institute of Language and Culture for Rural Development, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
1997 Honorary Professor, Central University of Nationalities, Beijing, China
1981-present University of Texas at Arlington, currently Professor of Linguistics
1980 Texas A&M University Visiting Professor
1973-79 Technical University Berlin, Dr.Phil. Habilitation, General Linguistics
1973-75 University of Bielefeld, Post Doc Fellow, Visiting Asst Professor
1970-73 University of California, LosAngeles, Ph.D. Germanic Languages 1973
1967-69 University of California, LosAngeles, M.A. German1969
1959-63 PurdueUniversity, B.S. Physics1963
INTERESTS:
SE Asian minority languages, China,Laos,
Myanmar,Thailand, and
historical comparative linguistics
syntactic and semantic theory
linguistic universals
biological/neurological aspects of lg.
Germanic linguistics
SELECTED RECENT RESEARCH:
Jerold A. Edmondson. 2011. Notes on the
subdivisions in Kra. Published as 仡央语言分类补议 in
Journal of Guangxi University for Nationalities. 广西民族大学学报. 33.2.8-14.
Anthony V. N. Diller, Jerold A. Edmondson & Luo Yongxian. (2008). The Tai-Kadai Languages. Routledge
Language Family Series. 704pp
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.
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