Ellen Broselow

Ellen Broselow (born 1949) is an experimental linguist specializing in second language acquisition and phonology. She is currently a Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.^[1]

Broselow received her PhD in linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976.^[2]

Broselow's research has focused on what sorts of mistakes second language learners make in perception and production in phonology, as well as loanword adaptation. She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America,^[3] and is a former associate editor of the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.^[4]

Selected publications

• Broselow, E. and Y. Kang. 2013. Second language phonology and speech. In J. Herschensohn and M. Young-Scholten (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 529-554. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Broselow, E. 2009. Stress adaptation in loanword phonology: perception and learnability. In P. Boersma and S. Hamann (eds.) Phonology in Perception, 191-234. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Broselow, E. 2003. Marginal phonology: phonotactics on the edge. The Linguistic Review 20, 159-193.
• Broselow, E. 1995. The skeletal tier and moras. In J. Goldsmith (ed.) A Handbook of Phonological Theory, 175-205. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
• Broselow, E. and D. Finer. 1991. Parameter setting in second language phonology and syntax. Second Language Research 7, 35-59.

External links

• Faculty home page
• Selected downloadable papers

References