Abigail
C. Cohn, Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics, 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 eaches 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 and papers:
Cohn, A. (2004, to appear) NELS "Truncation in Indonesian:
Evidence for violable minimal words and AnchorRight" Proceedings
NELS 34.
Cohn, A. (2003) "Phonological structure and phonetic duration:
The role of the mora Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory
15. [to appear in the Proceeding of North American Phonology Conference
1&2]
Cohn, A. and E. Kishel (2003) "Development of Initial Clusters
in American English by Fraternal Twins: An Acoustic Study,"
15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Proceedings (with
E. Kishel).
Cohn, A. (2001) "Phonology," In M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller
(eds.) Handbook of Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwells, pp. 180-212.
Tsuchida, A, A Cohn and M. Kumada (2000) "Sonorant devoicing
and the phonetic realization of [Spread Glottis] in English,"
Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 13: 167-181.
Lavoie, L and A. Cohn (1999) "Sesquisyllables of English: The
structure of vowel-liquid sequences." 14th International Congress
of Phonetic Sciences Proceedings, pp. 109-112.
Cohn, A. (1998) "The phonetics-phonology interface revisited:
Where's phonetics?" Texas Linguistics Society 1998 Conference
Proceedings, pp.25-40.
Cohn, A. and J. McCarthy (1998) "Alignment and parallelism
in Indonesian phonology," Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics
Laboratory 12: 53-137 and ROA 25-0894.
Research interests:
Phonology, phonetics, phonology-phonetics interface, phonology-morphology
interface
French, English, Indonesian languages
Recent courses taught:
Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
Field methods
Phonology 1
Topics in Phonological Theory
Research Workshop
Graduate seminars
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