Megan Crowhurst

Megan Jane Crowhurst is a Canadian-raised American linguist. She works in the area of phonology, researching aspects of prosody, especially prosodic morphology, phonological stress, and perceptions 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.

Raised in Calgary,[3] Crowhurst earned her BA in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in 1985. She received her MA and PhD at the University of Arizona, completing her dissertation in 1991 under the supervision of Diana Archangeli.[4] She has taught at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics.[5]

Crowhurst was part 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.[6][7] She also served on the LSA committee, Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, chairing the committee in 2001.[8][9][10]

Crowhurst was awarded a National Science Foundation grant in 1997 to study Phonological Analysis of Indigenous Languages of Eastern Bolivia.[11] In 2012 she received another NSF grant to research "Beyond the Iambic/Trochaic Law: Perceptual influences on subjective grouping of rhythmic speech.”[12]

Beginning in 2013 Crowhurst served the Associate Editor of the journal Language, becoming its Senior Associate Editor in 2015.[13]

Selected publications

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1992. Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis. Phonology.[14]

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.

Catharine H. Echols, Megan J. Crowhurst and Jane B. Childers. 1997. The Perception of Rhythmic Units in Speech by Infants and Adults. Journal of Memory and Language. 36(2): 202-225.

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 J. Crowhurst. 2011. Constraint conjunction. Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, & Keren Rice, eds., Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, pp. 1461–1490.

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.

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. Calgary Herald, May 17, 2008. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?pid=109851317
  4. University of Arizona, UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/185652
  5. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/
  6. Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, http://www.ling.wisc.edu/wilma/history.php
  7. Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty. 2007. Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women. P. 165. University of Michigan Press.
  8. LSA October 2000 Bulletin, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA%20Bulletin%20170%20December%202000.pdf
  9. 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
  10. CBSNews.com staff, "The Death Of Languages," June 19, 2001 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-languages/
  11. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9603215&HistoricalAwards=false
  12. National Science Foundation, Award# 1147959, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1147959
  13. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics News, Tue, October 20, 2015, http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/news/article.php?id=9935
  14. 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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