Diana B. Archangeli (born in

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in 1953) is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the

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. She earned her M.A. at the University of Texas-Austin in 1981, and her PhD from

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in 1984, with a dissertation entitled, "''Underspecification in

Yawelmani Yawelmani Yokuts (also spelled Yowlumne and Yauelmani) is an endangered dialect of Southern Valley Yokuts historically spoken by the Yokuts living along the Kern River north of Kern Lake in the Central Valley of California. Today, most Yawelma ...

Phonology and Morphology.''" Her dissertation was selected for publication in Garland's Outstanding Dissertation series (Archangeli 1988). She taught at the

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for a year before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1985. She also spent a few years teaching at the

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(2013-2017). She is known for a number of widely cited works on

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and

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, often in collaboration with Douglas Pulleyblank (

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), within the frameworks of Grounded Phonology, Emergent Phonology and underspecification.

Books

* Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 1994. ''Grounded Phonology.'' MIT Press * ''Optimality Theory: An Overview'', edited with D. T. Langendoen, University of Arizona, 1997, Blackwells Publishing, Oxford * ''Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology'', 1988, Garland Publishing, New York * Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2022. ''Emergent phonology''. (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 7). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5721159

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