Junko Ito is Professor and Chair of Linguistics at the University of California , Santa Cruz . She received her Ph.D. from UMass, Amherst in 1986. Her early work deals with the principles of syllabification and their interaction with phonological and morphological processes: "A Prosodic Theory of Epenthesis," Natural Language and Linguistics Theory 7 (1989). More recently, she has worked on several research projects within the Optimality-Theoretic framework that focus on the structure of the phonological lexicon and the prosodic morphology of Japanese. Selected publications include (with Armin Mester): "The Structure of the Phonological Lexicon", in N. Tsujimura ed. The Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, Blackwell Publishers (1999), Japanese Morphophonemics, LI Monograph Series 41, MIT Press (2003).

Topics in Prosodic Morphology | LSA.202
with Armin Mester
MW 10:10-11:50
Three Week Course | Second Session