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Chip Gerfen

Assistant Professor

& Undergraduate Advisor

Department of Linguistics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
318 Dey Hall, CB #3155
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155

office: 321 Dey Hall
office phone: (919) 962-4996
email: gerfen@email.unc.edu
homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~gerfen/

EDUCATION
1990-1995 University of Arizona
Ph.D. in Linguistics, 1996
Dissertation advisor: Diana Archangeli
Dissertation: Topics in the Phonology and Phonetics of Coatzospan Mixtec
1987-1990 University of Montana
M.A. English/Linguistics
M.F.A. Creative Writing: Specialization in Poetry
Certification: Teaching English as a Second Language
1980-1985 Dartmouth College
B.A. English
Magna cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa, 1985

TEACHING
1995-present Assistant Professor of Linguistics, UNC-Chapel Hill
1991-1994 Teaching Assistant in Linguistics, U. of Arizona
Fall 1990 Associate Faculty in Writing, Pima Community College, Tucson, AZ.
1989-1990 Instructor, English as a Second Language, U. of Montana.
Winter 1988 Instructor, Fiction Workshop, U. of Montana.
1987-1989 Instructor, English Composition, U. of Montana.
1985-1987 English Instructor, Granada, Spain.
1981-1984 Teaching Assistant, Spanish, Dartmouth College.

OTHER RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Spring-Fall 1994 Research Assistant for Diana Archangeli, U. of Arizona.
Fall 1992 Research Assistant for Diana Archangeli, U. of Arizona.
1989-1990 Translator for Franklin Electronics; co-translator of English to Spanish dictionary and instruction manuals.

BOOKS
1999 Phonology and Phonetics in Coatzospan Mixtec. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press. 304 pages.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
In press Nasalized Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. International Journal of American Linguistics v. 67, number 4, October 2001.
Accepted Andalusian Codas. Probus.
Accepted Production and Perception of Glottalised Vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec. Journal of Phonetics. (with Kirk Baker)
under review Coda Aspiration and Incomplete Neutralisation in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. Lingua. (with Kathleen Hall)

CHAPTERS IN REFEREED VOLUMES
2001 A Critical View of Licensing by Cue: The Case of Andalusian Spanish.  In Segmental Phonology in Optimality Theory. (L. Lombardi, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 183-205.
under review S-aspiration with and without the /s/ in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. for inclusion in R. Nunez-Cedeno, L. Lopez, and R. Cameron (eds.) Studies in Romance Linguistics: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (with Kathleen Hall)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
1999 (H)igh-(H)igh, (L)ow-(L)ow, (W)hat's-(W)hat?. In Texas linguistic forum 41: Exploring the boundaries between phonetics and phonology. A. Doran, T. Majors, C. E. Mauk, and N. M. Goss (eds.), 57-69. (with Paul Denisowski)
1993 Trigger Conditions and Nasal Harmony in Terena. In Proceedings of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. J.S. Guenter et. al. (eds.) 159-170.
1992 Sikuani Stress and the Accentual Zone. In Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 12.
1991 Reciprocity in Spanish: A Puzzle of Scope. In Proceedings of the Western Conference on Linguistics 4. 152-163.
1991 Izi Vowel Harmony and Selective Cyclicity,. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Arizona Phonology Conference, J. Ann, et. al. (eds.), 16-26.
1991 co-editor with Pilar Piñar, Coyote Papers: Working Papers in Linguistics from A-Z, v. 8, University of Arizona.

REFEREED CONFERENCE PAPERS
2002 ka'u o: An orthography and Picture Dictionary for Coatzospan Mixtec. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, January 2002. (with Kelley Vance)
2001 S-aspiration without the [s] in Eastern Andalusian Spanish. 2001 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. (with Kathleen Hall).
2001 Amplitude Alone Can Cue Glottalization: Crosslinguistic Evidence from Speech Perception. Linguistic Society of America Meeting, January 4-7, Washington, DC. (with Kirk Baker)
1999 Obstruent Neutralization in Andalusian Spanish: A Critical View of Licensing by Cue. Presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 18, Tucson, AZ, April 9-11.
1999 Amplitude Drop as the Primary Cue for Glottalization: Evidence from Production. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 8-11.
1999 Andalusian Codas. Presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, January 8-11. (with Pilar Piñar)
1998 (H)igh-(H)igh, (L)ow-(L)ow, (W)hat's-(W)hat?. Presented at The annual meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society: Exploring the Boundaries between Phonetics and Phonology, March 13-15. (with Paul Denisowski)
1997 'Nasalized' Fricatives in Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1997 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, Chicago, IL.
1997 Downstep and Downdrift in Ìgbò. Presented at the 1997 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 2-5, Chicago, IL. (with Yetunde Laniran)
1995 Palatalization in Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1995 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6-8, New Orleans, LA.
1994 Cross-Segmental Opacity without Line Crossing: The Case of Coatzospan Mixtec. Presented at the 1994 meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 6-9, Boston, MA.
1993 Trigger Conditions and Nasal Harmony in Terena. Presented at The 19th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 13-16, Berkeley, CA,
1993 Aperture Geometry, Feature Cooccurrence and Meinhof's Law in Gikuyu. Presented at the 24th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, July 23-25, Ohio State University. (with John Mugane)
1992 Sikuani Stress and the Accentual Zone. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 12, February 21-23, UCLA.
1992 Scope Interpretation in Spanish Reciprocal Constructions. Presented at the Arizona Linguistics Conference, March 27-29, University of Arizona.
1991 Reciprocity in Spanish: A Puzzle of Scope. Presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics 4, November Simon Fraser U., 152-163.
1991 Izi Vowel Harmony and Selective Cyclicity,. Presented at The 4th Annual Arizona Phonology Conference, April 5-6, U.of Arizona,

INVITED PAPERS
2000 A Critical Look at Licensing by Cue. Colloquium talk at the University of Texas at Austin, April 17, 2000
1998 What Licenses Contrast: Phonetics or Phonology? Paper presented at the Research Triangle Linguistics Colloquium, October, 1998, Durham, NC.
1998 Phonetic Contexts or Phonological Structures? Phonetics, Phonology, and the Licensing of Contrast. University of Maryland, September 25, 1998.
1998 Physiological Data Collected in the Field and Theoretical Implications. Georgetown University, April 8, 1998.
1995 Remarks on Glottalization in Coatzospan Mixtec. Paper presented at the Research Triangle Linguistics Colloquium, October, 1995, Durham, NC.
1994 La tecnología fonética para el trabajo de campo en el mixteco de San Juan Coatzospan. Presented at the Seminario de Lenguas Indígenas de la Universidad Autónoma Nacional de México, June 22, 1994, Mexico City, Mexico.
1994 Fonética y fonología de nasalización en el mixteco de San Juan Coatzospan. Presented at the V Encuentro en lingüística, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, October 27, 1994, Mexico City, Mexico.
1994 Three day seminar on contemporary phonological theory at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico. October 26-28, 1994.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2000-2001 Faculty Development Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill: $4000
2000-2001 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship for Spring, 2001, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1999-2000 Cognitive Science Research Seed Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill: $6200
1998-99 Brandes Course Development Award, UNC-Chapel Hill: $3000
1997-98 Title VI Faculty Travel Award. U.S. Department of Education. $1350
1997-98 $1000 grant for Spanish in the US research project, co-investigator with Julia Mack, from Vice-Chancellor for research at UNC-Chapel Hill.
1996-97 $1600 research grant from Vice-Chancellor for Research, UNC-Chapel Hill for field research on Coatzospan Mixtec.
1996-97 Principal investigator, Chancellor's Task Force on Instructional Technology Grant: $30,000
1996-97 Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC-Chapel Hill: $5,000
1995 U. of Arizona Social and Behavioral Sciences graduate research grant: $500.
1993 Adrian Akmajian Fellow, 1993 Linguistic Institute, at The Ohio State University
1988-1989 Franklin Scholar, U. of Montana: $500
1983-1984 Senior Fellow, Dartmouth College: tuition scholarship and $1000 research grant

HONORS
2001 Institute for the Arts and Humanities Fellow: UNC Chapel Hill
2000 Appointed to the UNC Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.
2000 Student Undergraduate Teaching Award (SUTA): University-wide award for excellence in undergraduate teaching, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
1993 Adrian Akmajian Fellow, 1993 Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute.
1985 Magna cum laude, Dartmouth College.
1985 Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth College.
1983-1984 Senior Fellow, Dartmouth College.
1984 Academy of American Poets Award, Dartmouth College.

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
2001-2002 Chair, Udall Scholarship Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill
2001-2002 Co-Chair, Truman Scholarship Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill
2001-2002 Member, University Scholarship Advisory Board, UNC-Chapel Hill
2001 Linguistic Society of America's Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee member through 2004.
2001 Reviewer for the journal Phonology
2000 Truman Scholarship Committee member, UNC-Chapel Hill
2000 Reviewer for the journal Probus
2000-present Undergraduate Honors Advisor for Linguistics, UNC-Chapel Hill
1999-present Undergraduate Major Advisor, Dept. of Linguistics, UNC-Chapel Hill
1998 Reviewer for the journal Probus
1995-1997 FLAS committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, Latin American Studies Program
1996 Reviewer for the journal Phonology
1994 Reviewer for the journal Phonology
1994 Reviewer for SCIL held at University of Rochester.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS AND MASTER'S THESES SUPERVISED
2000 Kim, Soo Jung. Accentual Effect on Phonological Rules in Korean. Ph.D. Dissertation.
2000 Chambless, Della. Stress in Standard Italian: An Optimality Theoretic Account. M.A. Thesis.
2001 Obregon, Patrick. An Optimality Theoretic Account of Diphthongization in Spanish. M.A. Thesis.
2001 Baker, Kirk. Crosslingustic Comparison of the Perception of Glottalization in English and in Coatzospan Mixtec. M.A. Thesis.
Ongoing M.A. theses under supervision:

Abousalh, Elaine
Lucas, Melissa
Palmer, Jennifer

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars
Linguistic Society of America
The Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas