Elizabeth Zsiga

Elizabeth Zsiga
Academic background
Alma materYale University
ThesisFeatures, gestures, and the temporal aspects of phonological organization (1993)

Elizabeth Cook Zsiga (/ˈziːɡə/)[1] (b. 1964) is a linguist whose work focuses on phonology and phonetics. She is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Education and career

Zsiga completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1993 as a student of Louis M. Goldstein, and affiliated with Haskins Laboratories, with a dissertation titled Features, gestures, and the temporal aspects of phonological organization.[2] She has been on the faculty at Georgetown since 1994, as Assistant Professor (1994-1999), Associate Professor (1999-2011), and Professor (since 2011).[3][4]

Zsiga's research interests have been wide-ranging and have been supported by numerous awards and federal grants from the National Science Foundation, including projects on the conservation of endangered languages (2007-2008),[5] on the phonetics of consonants in Setswana and Sebirwa (2010 and 2011–2014),[6][7] and as director for doctoral projects on the phonetics of Burmese tones (2009),[8] consonant weakening in Florentine Italian (2007),[9] acquisition of tone in a second language (2015),[10] neutralization of phonemic contrasts in Dutch and Afrikaans (2019),[11] and iconicity in American Sign Language (2020).[12]

She is the author of a well-received introductory textbook to phonetics and phonology (Zsiga 2013),[13][14] as well as a textbook on the phonology-phonetics interface (Zsiga 2021).

Selected publications

Books

  • Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2013). The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-9103-6.
  • Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2021). The Phonology/Phonetics Interface. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-54264-7.
  • Zsiga, Elizabeth C.; Kramer, R.; Boyer, O., eds. (2015). Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Education, and Language Policy. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-62616-153-5.

Selected articles

  • Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2011). "External Sandhi in a Second Language: The Phonetics and Phonology of Obstruent Nasalization in Korean-Accented English". Language. 87 (2): 289–345. doi:10.1353/lan.2011.0031. S2CID 144944548.
  • Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2000). "Phonetic alignment constraints: consonant overlap and palatalization in English and Russian". Journal of Phonetics. 28 (1): 69–102. doi:10.1006/jpho.2000.0109.
  • Zsiga, E. (1995). "An acoustic and electropalatographic study of lexical and postlexical palatalization in American English". In Connell, B.; Arvaniti, A. (eds.). Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: Papers in Laboratory Phonology IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 282–302. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511554315.020. ISBN 978-0-521-48259-2.

References

  1. ^ Zsiga, Elizabeth C. (2013). The Sounds of Language: An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 25. ISBN 978-1-4051-9103-6.
  2. ^ "Ph.D. Alumni". Yale Linguistics. 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
  3. ^ Zsiga, Elizabeth. "CV of Elizabeth Zsiga" (PDF). Retrieved 11 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu.
  5. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0737741 - Documenting Endangered Languages: Toward a Distributed Global Agenda". www.nsf.gov.
  6. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1052937 - A Phonetic Study of the Consonants of Setswana and Sebirwa". www.nsf.gov.
  7. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1023320 - An Acoustic and Articulatory Study of the Consonants of Setswana". www.nsf.gov.
  8. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0844031 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: An Acoustic and Articulatory Study of Burmese Tone". www.nsf.gov.
  9. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 0518040 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Consonant Weakening in Florentine Italian". www.nsf.gov.
  10. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1451687 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: the Acquisition of Tone in a Second Language". www.nsf.gov.
  11. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1918306 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Incomplete Neutralization: The Loss and Maintenance of Contrast". www.nsf.gov.
  12. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award # 1941813 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Effect of Iconicity on Phonetic and Phonological Processes in American Sign Language". www.nsf.gov.
  13. ^ Ackerman, Lauren; Boone, Haley; Martinez, Michal Temkin (2016). "The sounds of language: An introduction to phonetics and phonology by Elizabeth C. Zsiga". Language. 92 (4): e292–e295. doi:10.1353/lan.2016.0082. ISSN 1535-0665. S2CID 152046615.
  14. ^ Smith, Bridget J. (2015). "ELIZABETH C. ZSIGA , The sounds of language: An introduction to phonetics and phonology (Linguistics in the World). Malden, MA & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Pp. xvii + 474. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9103-6". Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 45 (3): 319–320. doi:10.1017/S0025100315000237. ISSN 0025-1003. S2CID 151669072.
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