King's College F6 King's Parade听听 海角社区 CB2 1ST
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Born in Houston, Texas. BA Chicago 1990; MA Harvard 1992; PhD Harvard 1994.
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Phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, dialectology, psycholinguistics
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Prof听Vaux is primarily interested in phenomena that shed light on the structure and origins of the phonological component of grammar, especially in the realms of psychophonology (language games, speech errors, acquisition of first, second, and toy languages, development of writing systems), historical linguistics (sound change, reconstruction, evolution of language, Indo-European, Altaic, and Northwest Caucasian languages), and sociolinguistics (dialectology, microvariation, and nanovariation). I also enjoy working with native speakers to document endangered languages, especially dialects of Armenian, Abkhaz, and English.
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The Armenian dialect of New听Julfa, Isfahan (Oxford University Press, to appear); the听Cwyzhy听dialect of听Abkhaz; the evolution of phonological scope.
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Vaux, B. and Nevins, A. (2008).听Rules and Constraints in Contemporary Phonological Theory.听Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vaux, B., Cooper, J. and Tucker, E. (2006).听Linguistic Field Methods. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
Vaux, B. (1998).听The Phonology of Armenian. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Vaux, B. (1998).听The Laryngeal Specifications of Fricatives. Linguistic Inquiry 29.3:497-512.
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