ELIZABETH (Beth) HUME Professor & Chair, Linguistics The Ohio State University Dept. of Linguistics 222 Oxley Hall Columbus, OH 43210 Dept. phone: (614) 292-4052 Dept. fax: (614) 292-8833 e-h-u-m-e@ling.osu.edu (remove hyphens to send me mail) Buckeye Speech Corpus Curriculum Vitae Metathesis Website Phonies Teaching

Research interests: language sound systems, cognitive science, language variation and change

Current research projects:
Variability and change in sound system: My current research focus is on developing models of variability and change in sound systems, making use of tools from Information Theory (entropy and uncertainty), as a means of predicting the segmental contexts most vulnerable to variability and change, and the sound patterns most likely to result from change.
Maltese sound patterns: I am also working with colleagues Sandra Vella (Malta, Luxembourg), Ray Fabri (Malta), and Adam Ussishkin (Arizona) on aspects of the phonological system of Maltese. Using data from our own fieldwork, one recent project examines vowel duration, while another focuses on word-final geminates (both done with undergraduate student, Samantha Gett).

          Selected Publications and Presentations (for a complete list, see my CV)

• Hume, Elizabeth, Jennifer Venditti, Alexandra Vella & Samantha Gett. In press. Vowel duration and Maltese 'għ'. To appear in IlSienna: Journal of the International Association for Maltese Linguistics, vol. 1.
  
• Hume, E. 2008. Expectation and its Role in Phonologization and Language Change.  Paper presented at the Workshop on Phonologization. University of Chicago. April 25-26.
  
• Hume, E. 2008. Markedness and the Language User.  Phonological Studies, vol. 11.
  
• Boomershine, Amanda, Hall, Kathleen Currie, Elizabeth Hume, Keith Johnson. 2008. The impact of allophony vs. contrast on speech perception. In P. Avery, E. Dresher & K. Rice (eds.), Contrast in Phonology.  Berlin: de Gruyter. 143-172
  
• Raymond, W., R. Dautricourt & E. Hume. 2006. Word-medial /t,d/ deletion in spontaneous speech: Modeling the effects of extra-linguistic, lexical, and phonological factors. Language Variation and Change, vol. 18(1). 55-97.
• Hume, E. 2004. The Indeterminacy/Attestation Model of Metathesis.  Language 80(2).
• Hume, E. 2003. Language specific markedness: The case of place of articulation. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 9:2. 295-310.
• Mielke, J.,  M. Armstrong & E. Hume. 2003. Looking through Opacity. Theoretical Linguistics 29. 123-139.
• Hume, E. & G. Tserdanelis. 2002. Labial Unmarkedness in Sri Lankan Portuguese Creole. Phonology 19.3.
• Hume, E. & K. Johnson. 2001.  A model of the interplay of speech perception and phonology.  In Hume & Johnson (eds.), The Role of Speech Perception in Phonology.  New York: Academic Press.
• Hume, E. 2001. Metathesis: formal and functional considerations. In E.Hume, N. Smith & J. van de Weijer, Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing. Leiden: HIL. 1-25.
• Hume, E. 1994. Representing the Duality of Glides. Langues et Grammaire, Université de Paris 8.
• Hume, E., D. Lepicq & R. Bourhis 1993. Attitudes des étudiants canadiens anglais face aux accents des professeurs de français en Ontario. Canadian Modern Language Review. 209-235.
  

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