Linguistics Department

Sam Rosenthall


Associate Professor
Undergraduate Advisor
331 O'Dowd Hall
(248) 370-2163
srosenth@oakland.edu



Education

Ph.D.   

University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

1994

M.A.

McGill University

1990

B.A.

McGill University

1985


Research Interests

Phonology, morphology, neurolinguistics, evolution
of language


Selected Publications and Presentations


"Gemination," Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language, ed. by Kees Versteegh et al., Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Holland. (to appear)

"OCP," Encyclopedia of the Arabic Language, ed. by Kees Versteegh et al., Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Holland. (to appear)

(with Mariapaola D'Imperio) "Phonetics and Phonology of Main Stress in Italian," Phonology, 16, 1-29 (1999).

(with Harry van der Hulst) "Weight-by-Position by Position," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 17, 499-540 (1999).

"The Prosodic Base of the Hausa Plural," in The Prosody-Morphology Interface. Ed. by René Kager, Wim Zonnefeld, and Harry van der Hulst, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 344-366 (1999).

"Metrical Influences on Syllable Structure in Lenakel," Linguistic Inquiry, 28, 187-193 (1997).

"The Distribution of Prevocalic Vowels," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 15, 139-180 (1997).