Ellen Broselow

Ellen Broselow's research is in the areas of phonology, second language acquisition, and the interface of phonology with phonetics, morphology, and syntax. Languages and language families she has worked on include Arabic, Salish, Bantu, and Indonesian languages of Sulawesi. In second language phonology, she has investigated the adaptation of loanwords and the errors made by second language learners in production and perception. She has used second language data as a probe into the mental representation of sound structure, and as a test of models of acquisition, focussing on the question of what aspects of grammar are innate. In the phonology-phonetics interface, she has examined the match between moraic structure and phonetic duration. Current projects include the connection between the syntactic and phonological behavior of affixes in several Indonesian languages; the asymmetry between phonological structures occurring inside stems and at stem edges; the interaction between stress and vowel insertion; and the use of loan data to discover default constraint rankings. She is a phonology editor of Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.