Megan Crowhurst

Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist employed at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. She works in the area of phonology, researching aspects of prosody, especially prosodic morphology, phonological stress, and the perception of rhythm.[1] Often focusing on documenting these aspects within endangered languages,[2] she has conducted fieldwork with speakers of Tupi-Guarani languages in Bolivia and speakers of Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Early life and academic career

Raised in Sydney, Australia and Brandon, Manitoba (Canada), Crowhurst earned her BA in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia (1985) and the MA and PhD at the University of Arizona (1989 and 1991).[3] She has held academic positions at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.[4] Crowhurst was awarded National Science Foundation grants in 1997, 2012 and 2021 to fund her research on endangered languages and on the perception of prosodic characteristics in speech.[5][6][7]

Honors and distinctions

Crowhurst was a member of the Linguistic Society of America task force that created the Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA) to provide a system to offer mentoring opportunities for female linguists.[8][9] She also served on the LSA committee, Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, chairing the committee in 2001.[10][11][12]

Crowhurst served as the Co-editor of the journal Language[13] from 2017-2020 (and before that, its Senior Associate Editor from 2016-2017, and Associate Editor from 2013-2016). [14] Crowhurst is also a co-founder (with Eric Baković, Eugene Buckley and Matt Gordon) of the journal Phonological Data and Analysis,[15] now a journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

Crowhurst was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in January, 2021.[16]

Selected publications

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1992. Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis. Phonology.[17]

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1994. Foot extrametricality and template mapping in Cupeño. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Megan Crowhurst and Mark Hewitt. 1995. Prosodic overlay and headless feet in Yidiɲ. Phonology.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2004. Mora alignment. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Megan Jane Crowhurst and Lev D. Michael. 2005. Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa). Language.

Megan Crowhurst and Sara Trechter. 2014. Vowel-rhotic metathesis in Guarayu. International Journal of American Linguistics.

Megan Crowhurst. 2016. Iambic-Trochaic law effects among native speakers of Spanish and English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 7(1), 12.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The joint influence of vowel duration and creak on the perception of internal phrase boundaries. J. Accoustical Society of America, 143(3), EL147-153. DOI: 10.1121/1.5025325

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The influence of varying vowel phonation and duration on rhythmic grouping preferences among Spanish and English speakers. J. Phonetics, 66 (Jan.), 82-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.001

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2019. The Iambic/Trochaic Law: Nature or Nurture? Language and Linguistic Compass, 2019;e12360. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12360

References
  1. "Google Scholar Megan Crowhurst". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  2. Foundation for Endangered Languages, https://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/74.htm
  3. University of Arizona, UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/185652
  4. "UT College of Liberal Arts".
  5. "NSF Award Search: Award # 9603215, Phonological Analysis of Indigenous Languages of Eastern Bolivia".
  6. "NSF Award Search: Award # 9603215, Beyond the Iambic/Trochaic Law: Perceptual influences on subjective grouping of rhythmic speech".
  7. "NSF Award Search: Award # 2041252, An artificial language learning study of the relationship between stress position and quantity sensitivity in stress patterning".
  8. Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, http://www.ling.wisc.edu/wilma/history.php
  9. Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty. 2007. Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women. P. 165. University of Michigan Press.
  10. LSA October 2000 Bulletin, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA%20Bulletin%20170%20December%202000.pdf
  11. Darlene Superville, "Half of world's 6,800 languages face extinction," Augusta Chronicle, June 21, 2001. http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/06/21/ent_314307.shtml
  12. CBSNews.com staff, "The Death Of Languages," June 19, 2001 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-languages/
  13. "Language".
  14. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics News, Tue, October 20, 2015, http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/news/article.php?id=9935
  15. "Phonological Data and Analysis".
  16. "Nine to be Inducted as Fellows of the LSA | Linguistic Society of America".
  17. James Harris. 1994. “The OCP, Prosodic Morphology and Sonoran Spanish diminutives: a reply to Crowhurst” Phonology, Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 1994, pp. 179-190.

LSA Member Spotlight: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/january-2016-member-spotlight-megan-crowhurst

Video, “Beyond the Iambic-Trochaic Law”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wiCzy4YBA

Faculty page at UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/crowhurs

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America—South American Languages Collection of Megan Crowhurst:

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