Linguistics Webpage: http://linguistics.cornell.edu/people/Cohn.cfm
Abigail
C. Cohn, Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Cornell Phonetics Lab, received
her PhD from UCLA in 1990. Her research focuses primarily on phonetics
and phonology and their interaction. Often, phonetics and phonology
are viewed as distinct areas of study. Yet there is an implicit
relationship between phonology—the abstract patterning of
sounds as part of a sound system, and phonetics—the physical
output. The nature of this mapping has been at the center of her current
research, which investigates both processes and representations within
phonology and phonetics. She is also interested in the interaction
of phonology and morphology, which interact formally in quite different
ways from phonology and phonetics. With respect to language area,
she has a particular interest in Indonesian languages and French.
Her recent work focuses on issues of abstract timing and physical
duration. In current work in progress on French, she is investigating
the phonological patterning and phonetic realization of liaison
consonants. Are the t’s of petit ami and petite amie really
the same?
Professor Cohn teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels, primarily in the areas of phonology and phonetics. She represents
the graduate fields of Asian Studies and Cognitive Studies as well
as Romance Studies and Linguistics.
Selected publications:
- Oxford Handbook of Laboratory Phonology (with Cecile Fougeron and Marie Huffman), Oxford University Press, to appear December 2011.
- “Features, Segments, and the Sources of Phonological Primitives,” to appear in G. N. Clements and R. Ridouane (eds.) Where Do Features Come From? Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 15-41.
- “Partially-nasal segments,” (with Anastasia Riehl) in M. van Oostendorp C. Ewen, E. Hume and K. Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- “Laboratory Phonology: Past successes and current questions, challenges, and goals,” in C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. D’Imperio, N. Vallé (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 10. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 3-29, 2011.
- “Complexity in phonetics and phonology, gradience, categoriality, and naturalness,” (with Ioana Chitoran) in F. Pellegrino, E. Marsico, I. Chitoran & C. Coupé (eds.) Approaches to phonological complexity, Phonology & Phonetics Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp: 21-46, 2009.
- Is there gradient phonology? in Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives, G. Faneslow, C. Fery, R. Vogel, and M. Schlesewsky (eds.), Oxford: OUP, pp. 25-44, 2006.
- Phonology, in Handbook of Linguistics, M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds.), Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 180-212, 2001.
- "Phonetics in phonology and phonology in phonetics," Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 16, 2008.
Research interests:
Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics interface, phonology-morphology
interface
French, English, Indonesian languages
Recent courses taught:
Language and Society
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Field methods
Phonology 1, 2
Topics in Phonological Theory
Research Workshop
Graduate seminars
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