Armin Mester received his Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1986 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and is currently Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research is concerned with the principles that underlie the prosodic organization of human language, as manifested in systems of syllabification, stress, and accent, as well as in the canonical prosodic forms and other templates often encountered in word formation processes. He is pursuing this work in the context of Optimality Theory, with an additional interest in the basic architecture of the theory (parallelism, opacity). His analytical work includes studies of Classical Latin, German and Japanese phonology: "The Quantitative Trochee in Latin" NLLT 12 (1994); "On the sources of opacity in OT: coda processes in German" [with Junko Ito], in C. Féry and R. v.d. Vijver (eds.) The Syllable in Optimality Theory. Cambridge University Press (2003); Japanese Morphophonemics [with Junko Ito], LI Monograph Series 41, MIT Press (2003).

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