Elizabeth Valerie Hume (born 29 October 1956) is a Canadian
phonologist, professor
emerita at the
Ohio State University.
Education and career
Hume received her Ph.D. from
Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of
G. N. Clements. She was a Professor of Linguistics at the
Ohio State University from 1992 to 2011. From 2006 to 2011, she served as professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. From 2011 to 2017, she was a Professor of Linguistics at
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
in New Zealand. She returned to Ohio State to serve as Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education from October 1, 2017 - November 8, 2021.
Her fields of research are sound systems of human language, factors influencing language variation and change, and the role of information and predictability in shaping language systems.
Honors
In 2022, Hume was inducted as a
Fellow of the
Linguistic Society of America.
She was an associate editor of
Phonology for many years beginning in 2008.
Works
*
Goldsmith, John, Elizabeth Hume and
Leo Wetzels, eds. 2011. ''Tones and Features.'' ''Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives.''
Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN: 9783110246216
*Hume, Elizabeth. 2004. The indeterminacy/attestation model of metathesis. ''
Language'' 80(2), 203-237
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4489661.
References
External links
Elizabeth V. Hume at the University of Canterbury
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Cornell University alumni
Ohio State University faculty
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Linguists
French-language education
Phonologists
1956 births
Living people
Women linguists
Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America