Laura J. Downing

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Laura J. Downing is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Gothenburg, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Laura J. Downing's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara
Masters Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelors Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, Laura J. Downing is an American linguist, specializing in the phonology of African languages. Education and career Downing earned her B.S. in linguistics from Georgetown University in 1977, and her PhD in linguistics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1990. Her dissertation, The tonal phonology of Jita, was published by Lincom Europa in 1996. After receiving her PhD, she held several positions in North America before moving to Europe in 2001. She was a senior researcher at the ZAS in Berlin from 2001 to 2012, and was professor of African Languages at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from 2012 until her retirement in 2021.

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Laura J. Downing's Published Works

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On the Prosodic Misalignment of Onsetless Syllables (1998) (149)
Paradigms in phonological theory (2004) (113)
Where's the topic in Zulu? (2009) (95)
Morphological and prosodic constraints on Kinande verbal reduplication (2000) (92)
Canonical Forms in Prosodic Morphology (2006) (88)
On the ambiguous segmental status of nasals in homorganic NC sequences (2002) (67)
Prosodic Stem ≠ Prosodic Word in Bantu (1999) (63)
Intonation in African Tone Languages (2016) (55)
Compounding and tonal non-transfer in Bantu languages (2003) (52)
Prosodic misalignment and reduplication (1998) (50)
What African Languages Tell Us About Accent Typology (2004) (41)
The Prosody and Syntax of Zulu Relative Clauses (2007) (40)
Prosody and Information Structure in Chichewa (2004) (37)
The Prosody and Syntax of Focus in Chitumbuka (2006) (37)
The prosody-morphology interface: Verbal reduplication in three Bantu languages (1999) (36)
Local and metrical tone shift in Nguni (1990) (31)
Focus and prominence in Chichewa, Chitumbuka and Durban Zulu * (2008) (30)
The focus prosody of Chichewa and the Stress-Focus constraint: a response to Samek-Lodovici (2005) (2013) (29)
The Tonal Phonology of Jita (1996) (29)
The prosody of ‘dislocation’ in selected Bantu languages (2011) (28)
What is Reduplication? Typology and Analysis Part 1/2: The Typology of Reduplication (2015) (28)
Phasal Syntax = Cyclic Phonology? (2016) (27)
On Pitch Lowering Not Linked to Voicing: Nguni and Shona Group Depressors. (2009) (20)
Voiceless Tone Depressors in Nambya and Botswana Kalang'a (2001) (20)
Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure: Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu (2012) (20)
Ungeneralizable minimality in Ndebele (2010) (19)
Prosodic stems in Zezuru Shona (2015) (19)
Problems in Jita tonology (1990) (18)
The Prosody of Relative Clauses in Chewa (2010) (18)
Prosodic phrasing of Chichewa relative clauses (2011) (18)
Tone and intonation in Akan (2016) (17)
An edge-based approach to the alignment of syntactic phases and prosodic phrases1 (2010) (16)
What is Reduplication? Typology and Analysis Part 2/2: The Analysis of Reduplication (2015) (14)
Morphological Correspondence in Kinande Reduplication (1997) (14)
Clefts in Durban Zulu (2013) (12)
Re-placing PStem in the prosodic hierarchy (2020) (12)
Tone and Intonation in Mambila (2016) (12)
Locative Relatives in Durban Zulu (2010) (12)
The Emergence of the Marked: Tone in some African Reduplicative Systems (2002) (12)
Issues in the Phonology-S yntax Interface in African Languages (2013) (10)
Jita Causative Doubling Provides Optimal Paradigms (2004) (10)
(In)direct Reference in the Phonology-Syntax Interface under Phase Theory: A Response to “Modular PIC” (D’Alessandro and Scheer 2015) (2019) (10)
All Depressors are Not Alike: A Comparison of Shanghai Chinese and Zulu (2011) (9)
Tone and Intonation in Shingazidja (2016) (9)
How intonations interact with tones in Embosi (Bantu C25), a two-tone language without downdrift (2016) (9)
Introduction: The Role of Paradigms in Phonological Theory (2004) (8)
Sentence intonation in Tswana (Sotho-Tswana group) (2016) (8)
Optimality Theory and African LanguagePhonology (2009) (8)
Information Structure in Bantu (2016) (7)
On the (Non-)congruence of Focus andProminence in Tumbuka (2012) (7)
Linear Disorder in Bantu Reduplication (2009) (7)
Papers from the Workshop on Bantu Relative Clauses (2010) (7)
Morphological Complexity and Prosodic Minimality (2005) (6)
Liquid spirantisation in Jita (2001) (6)
Explaining the role of the morphological continuum in Bantu spirantisation (2007) (6)
*NT revisited again: An approach to postnasal laryngeal alternations with perceptual Cue constraints 1 (2015) (6)
Aspects of the intonational phonology of Bàsàá (2016) (6)
Tone and Intonation in Chichewa and Tumbuka (2016) (6)
Papers in Bantu Grammar and Description (2006) (6)
The problems of adverbs in Zulu (2014) (6)
Focus and Phrasing in Shingazidja (2008) (5)
Clausal morphosyntax and information structure (2019) (5)
Indefinite subjects in Durban Zulu (2014) (4)
Introduction: Tone and intonation from a typological perspective (2009) (4)
Tone (Non-) Transfer in Bantu Verbal Reduplication (4)
Grounding Nguni depressor effects (2017) (4)
Differential object marking in Chichewa (2018) (4)
Focus prosody divorced from stress and intonation in Chichewa , Chitumbuka and Durban Zulu (2007) (4)
Melodic verb tone patterns in Jita (2014) (3)
Intonation in the Thetogovela dialect of Moro (2016) (3)
Challenges of Cushitic reduplication for Generalized Template Theory (2011) (3)
Recursion and the Definition of Universal Prosodic Categories (2021) (3)
Opacity is a Matter of Representation: Shimakonde Vowel Harmony and Vowel Reduction (2010) (2)
Jita Glide Epenthesis and the Maximality Principle (1991) (2)
Duration of vowels before homorganic nasal-obstruent sequences in Tumbuka (2019) (2)
Reduplication: Doubling in Morphology, Sharon Inkelas, Cheryl Zoll. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2005) (2007) (2)
Optimality Theory and Prosodic Morphology (2018) (1)
Prosodic Hierarchy-Based Templates (2006) (0)
Why phonetically-motivated constraints do not lead to phonetic determinism: The relevance of aspiration in cueing NC sequences in Tumbuka (2021) (0)
David Odden (1996). The phonology and morphology of Kimatuumbi . ( The phonology of the world's languages .) Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. xi + 315. (1996) (0)
Morpheme-Based Templates (2006) (0)
Larry M. Hyman & Charles W. Kisseberth (eds.),Theoretical aspects of Bantu tone (CSLI Lecture Notes 82). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 1998. Pp. x+366. (1999) (0)
Eric Raimy (2000). The phonology and morphology of reduplication. (Studies in Generative Grammar 52.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. viii+200. (2001) (0)
The Role of Phonology in Defining Canonical Form in MBT (2006) (0)
Stress-Focus Mismatches in Chichewa (2009) (0)
Forthcoming articles (2016) (0)
The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change (2018) (0)
The focus prosody of Chichewa and the Stress-Focus constraint: a response to Samek-Lodovici (2005) (2013) (0)
Revealing structure: Papers in honor of Larry M. Hyman ed. by Eugene Buckley (2020) (0)
Domains and directionality in Kinande vowel harmony: a Correspondence approach (2022) (0)
Publications Received for Review (2009) (0)
Infant feeding in practice. (1984) (0)
Two Cases of Adaptation Mismatches in Yoruba Loan Phonology (2012) (0)
Reviews 2012-001 Paradigms in phonological theory (0)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Harmony Interactions (2018) (0)
Investigating the diachronic fate of NTh in Bantu languages (2018) (0)
Nancy C. Kula, Bert Botma and Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.) (2011). Continuum companion to phonology . (Continuum Companions.) London: Continuum International Publishing Group. Pp. xv+524. (2012) (0)
1 The Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory Network (2006) (0)
Questions for Future Research and Conclusion (2006) (0)
Issues in the Phonology-SyntaxInterface in African Languages (2013) (0)
Modeling ungrammaticality in optimality theory (review) (2011) (0)

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