Christina Y. Bethin
Department of Linguistics



Interested in the role of prosodic structure in phonology and morphology,
Christina Y. Bethin works on the syllable structure and metrical organization
of the Slavic languages. She has done research on Ukrainian and Polish,
specifically on the representation of geminates in Ukrainian, Polish nasal
vowels, voicing assimilation in Polish and Ukrainian, quantity in Czech
phonology and morphology, and syllable structure at the phonology and
morphology interface. She also works on the historical phonology of the
Slavic languages in order to understand how language structure affects
language change. This research is concerned with finding a coherent
theoretical explanation for a wide range of phonological phenomena,
including accentual developments, and with relating changes in sound structure
to those in prosody. Author of Polish Syllables: The Role of Prosody in
Phonology and Morphology (Slavica, 1992) and Slavic Prosody: Language
Change and Phonological Theory (Cambridge, 1998), she is currently
investigating the nature of prominence in East Slavic dialects, including vowel
reduction phenomena and the prominence mismatches between vowel duration,
pitch and stress. On the editorial board of several Slavic journals, she is the
recipient of three National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships,
two book awards and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Bethin also teaches Russian and Slavic linguistics in the
Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

 

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Christina Y. Bethin
Department of Linguistics, S-201 SBS Bldg.
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4376 USA
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