William Bennett

Lecturer

BA (Carleton College), PhD (Rutgers)

Email: w[d?t] bennett [æt] ru [d?t] ac [d?t] za

Research Interests

My research interests are mostly on the sound-related side of the field: how phonetics, phonology & morphology (and sometimes syntax) interact. My work also focuses on under-represented/minority languages (particularly African languages), and I'm also very interested in endangered language description & documentation.

My most recent work focuses mostly on long-distance consonant interactions, including dissimilation and consonant harmony; and on describing & documenting Defaka & Nkoroo, two endangered Ijoid languages spoken in the Niger Delta.

Courses Taught

Linguistics 1 Phonetics & Phonology

Linguistics 2 Phonetics & Phonology

Linguistics 3 Phonetics & Phonology

Postgraduate Phonetics & Phonology

Selected Recent publications

(2013). Dissimilation, Consonant Harmony, and Surface Correspondence. PhD dissertation, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

(2012). Dissimilation By Correspondence in Sundanese.  In Proceedings of the 30th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 30).

(2012). Two subject asymmetries in Defaka focus constructions. In Proceedings of the 29th West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 29). [With Akin Akinlabi & Bruce Connell]

(2012). Defaka and Ijo: A reassessment of the Ijoid relationship. In Proceedings of the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne 2009. [With Bruce Connell and others]