Lee S. Bickmore
Office: Arts & Sciences Building, Room 238
Ph: (518) 442-4160
E-mail: l.bickmore@albany.edu
Website: http://www.albany.edu/~lb527/
PhD, UCLA, 1989
Interests: Linguistics, phonology, tone, stress, historical linguistics
Areas: Africa, Polynesia.
Director, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
Jointly appointed in the Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Statement
Linguistic anthropologist and phonologist whose research focuses on linguistic prosody, including tonal, accentual, and metrical phonomena. A special concern is the interaction of several of these phenomena in the same language (i.e. when a single language resists classification as purely tonal or purely metrical stress). Area focus is mainly Bantu languages of Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia with a secondary interest in Polynesian languages (particularly Tahitian). Data collected by field research for the most part, rather than from secondary sources.
Select Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
2000
Downstep and Fusion in Namwanga, Phonology 17(3): 297-333.
Tones and Glides in Namwanga’Äù. In Advances in African Linguistics, V. Cardstens & F. Parkinson (eds.), Africa World Press, Trenton, Pp. 135-149.
1999
High Tone Spread in Ekegusii Revisited: An Optimality Theoretic Account. Lingua 109: 109-153.
1998
Metathesis and Dahl’s Law in Ekegusii. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 28(2): 149-168.
Bickmore, L. & G.A. Broadwell. High tone docking in Sierra Juarez Zapotec. IJAL 64:1.
1997
Problems in constraining High tone spread in Ekegusii. Lingua 102(4): 265-290.
Book Chapters
2003
The use of feet to account for binary tone spreading. In Stress and Tone in Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter vol. 15, R. J. Anyanwu (ed.), Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln.
1995
Accounting for compensatory lengthening in the CV and moraic frameworks. In New Frontiers in Phonology, J. Durand and F. Katamba (eds.), Longman, London. |
