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Joe Salmons
Ph.D. Advisor: Lingusitics;Lester W.J. “Smoky” Seifert Professor of Germanic Linguistics
Professor
Joseph Salmons researches and teaches on speech sounds, sound change and related areas, drawing data especially from historical and contemporary Germanic languages. He also serves as Executive Editor of Diachronica: International Journal for Historical Linguistics.
Email:
jsalmons@wisc.edu
Phone:
262-2192
Speciality:
Historical linguistics, phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics
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Publications:
- Forthcoming Patrick Honeybone & Joseph C. Salmons, eds. The Handbook of Historical Phonology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2012 A History of German: What the past reveals about today’s language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- 2012 Gregory K. Iverson & Joseph Salmons. Parasitic rule loss in Norse umlaut. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 24.101-131.
- 2012 Language shift and the Indo-Europeanization of Europe. Die sprachlichen Wurzeln Europas – Linguistic roots of Europe: Ursprung und Entwicklung – Origin and development, ed. by Robert Mailhammer & Theo Vennemann, 147-169. Copenhagen: Tusculanum Press.
- 2012 Brent Allen & Joseph Salmons. Obstruenter fonetikk og fonologi i amerikanorsk og norskamerikansk engelsk. Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift 30.149-169.
Education:
- BA, Philosophy, UNC-Charlotte
- Ph.D., Germanic Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
