Sharon Inkelas
Professor and Chair
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
email: inkelas@berkeley.edu

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Research interests

My research interests center on phonology, morphology and their interaction. Since my 1989 dissertation I have focused on the ways in which morphology conditions phonology and the ways in which phonology conditions morphology. In recent years this has led to an exploration of cophonologies, or phonological grammars associated with individual morphological constructions. This interest, applied to reduplication, led to my 2005 book, with Cheryl Zoll, called Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology, published by Cambridge University Press. Within morphology proper, I have pursued issues of affix ordering and, in collaboration with Gabriela Caballero, the question of multiple exponence in morphology. An independent line of research in recent years has been child phonology, as reflected in my 2003 article 'J's rhymes' in Journal of Child Language and in a 2007 Language article with Yvan Rose. I have also collaborated with Prof. Kemal Oflazer, of Sabanci University in Istanbul, on computational tools for the analysis of Turkish, building in part on my NSF-funded TELL (Turkish Electronic Living Lexicon) database.

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Education