Diana B. Archangeli (born in Oregon in 1953) is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

Diana Archangeli
AwardsCASBS fellowship
Academic background
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
University of Texas at Austin (MA)
ThesisUnderspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology (1984)
Doctoral advisorMorris Halle
Other advisorsS. Jay Keyser James Harris
Academic work
Disciplinelinguistics
Sub-disciplinemorphology, phonetics, phonology
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona
University of Hong Kong (2013 - 2017)
Notable ideasEmergent Phonology
Websitehttp://www.u.arizona.edu/~dba/index.html

She earned her M.A. at the University of Texas-Austin in 1981, and her PhD from MIT in 1984, with a dissertation entitled, "Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology."[1][2] Her dissertation was selected for publication in Garland's Outstanding Dissertation series (Archangeli 1988).

She taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a year before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1985. She also spent a few years teaching at the University of Hong Kong (2013-2017).[3]

She is known for a number of widely cited works on phonetics and phonology,[4] often in collaboration with Douglas Pulleyblank (UBC), within the frameworks of Grounded Phonology, Emergent Phonology and underspecification.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Books

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  • Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 1994. Grounded Phonology. MIT Press
  • Optimality Theory: An Overview, edited with D. T. Langendoen, University of Arizona, 1997, Blackwells Publishing, Oxford
  • Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology, 1988, Garland Publishing, New York
  • Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2022. Emergent phonology. (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5721159

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  2. ^ Encyclopedia of language & linguistics. E. K. Brown, Anne Anderson (1st ed.). Boston: Elsevier. 2005. ISBN 0-08-044299-4. OCLC 61441874.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Diana B Archangeli | UA Profiles". profiles.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  4. ^ "Google Scholar - Diana Archangeli citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  5. ^ "Archangeli, Diana B." Scopus.
  6. ^ "Diana Archangeli". University of Arizona.
  7. ^ Idsardi, William (September 1998). "Diana Archangeli & Douglas Pulleyblank,Grounded Phonology (Current Studies in Linguistics 25). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Pp. xiii+502". Journal of Linguistics. 34 (2): 489–549. doi:10.1017/S0022226798217117. ISSN 1469-7742. S2CID 143008685.
  8. ^ "Diana Archangeli". Researchgate.
  9. ^ Ota, Mitsuhiko (2000). "A review of two books introducing Optimality Theory". Second Language Research. 16 (3): 281–292. doi:10.1191/026765800667661194. JSTOR 43103580. S2CID 220747830.
  10. ^ Mohanan, K. P. (1 May 1991). "On the bases of radical underspecification". Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 9 (2): 285–325. doi:10.1007/BF00134678. ISSN 1573-0859. S2CID 170249977.
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