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Assistant Professor
Department of English, Linguistics, and Speech
  
 

 
 
 
 
Paul D. Fallon's Curriculum Vitae

 

Education

Ph.D. in linguistics from The Ohio State University

M.A. in linguistics from The Ohio State University

M.S. in linguistics from Georgetown University

B.S. magna cum laude in linguistics (double-major in Portuguese) from Georgetown University

Other Education             

  • Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, Summer 2001
  • Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Columbus, OH, Summer 1993.
  • Linguistic Society of America Linguistic Institute, Tucson, AZ, Summer 1989.
  • Spanish immersion courses, intermediate level, Middlebury College, Summer 1987.

         

Publications

Monographs and Scholarly Books

  1. Fallon, Paul D. 2002a. The synchronic and diachronic phonology of ejectives. (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, series ed. by Laurence Horn). New York: Routledge. 375 + xix pp. ISBN:0-415-93800-7.

LoC Call #: P235.F35 2001.

Read the abstract of the original dissertation here.

 

Chapters in Books

  1. Fallon, Paul D. 2007. Blin orthography: A history and an assessment. Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism in Language Politics and Economic Globalization, ed. by Olaoba F. Arasanyin and Michael A. Pemberton, 93-98. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
  2. Fallon, Paul D. 2006. Consonant mutation and reduplication in Bilin plurals. Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspectives,
    edited by John Mugane, John P. Hutchison, and Dee A. Worman. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
  3. Fallon, Paul D. 2005a. The following 500- or 1,000-word entries for the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edn. Ed. by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005: Cerulli, Enrico (1898-1988); Conti-Rossini, Carlo (1872-1949); Ladefoged, Peter (b. 1925); Passy, Paul Edouard (1859-1940); Turner, Lorenzo Dow (1895-1972).
  4. Fallon, Paul D. 2005b. The best is not good enough: Scouring a previously documented language for more. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of African Linguistics, New Brunswick 2003, ed. by Akinbiyi Akinlabi and Oluseye Adesola, 469-478. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
  5. Fallon, Paul D. 2003a. Vocabulary building with Revelations. Academic Writing is Problem-Solving Writing (Resource Manual to Accompany Revelations, Fourth ed.), ed. by Cynthia Fowler, 81-86. Boston, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing.
  6. Fallon, Paul D. 2001a. Some phonological processes in Bilin. Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics, ed. by Andrew Simpson, 49-60. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  7. Fallon, Paul D. 1999a. Debuccalization with preservation of secondary articulation. Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL 17), ed. by Kimary Shahin, Susan Blake, and Eun-Sook Kim, 190-204. Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) Publications, Stanford University.
  8. Fallon, Paul D. 1999b. Feature geometry, debuccalization, and secondary articulation. Proceedings from the Main Session of the Chicago Linguistic Society’s Thirty-Fourth Meeting (CLS 34.1), ed. by M. Gruber, D. Higgins, K. Olson and T. Wysocki, 143-157. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
  9. Fallon, Paul D. 1996. Verbal umlaut in Chechen. NSL 8: Linguistic Studies in the Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics, ed. by Howard I. Aronson, 139-160. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
  10. Fallon, Paul D. 1995a. Synchronic and diachronic typology: The case of ejective voicing. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Berkeley Linguistics Society, ed. by Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Joshua S. Guenter, Barbara A. Kaiser and Ju Namkung, 105-116. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Linguistics Society.
  11. Fallon, Paul D. 1994. Naturally occurring hiatus in Modern Greek.  Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 117), ed. by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaides, and Maria Sifianou, 217-24. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  12. Fallon, Paul D. 1993. Liquid dissimilation in Georgian.  Proceedings of the Tenth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL ’93), ed. by Andreas Kathol and Michael Bernstein, 105-116. Ithaca, NY: DMLL Publications. 1993.

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Fallon, Paul D. 2003. Linguistics: A bridge between science and the humanities. International Journal of the Humanities, ISSN: 447-9508 (print), 1447-9559 (online).

Click here to read a pdf version.

 

Book Reviews and Notices

  1. Fallon, Paul D. 2000. Review of Phonological Analysis: A Functional Approach. 2nd edn. By Donald A. Burquest. (Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1998). Language 76.233-34.
  2. Fallon, Paul D. 1995b. Review article of Principles of Phonetics by John Laver (Cambridge  University Press, 1994). The Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics 3(2-4):259-268.

General Articles

  1. Fallon, Paul D. 2003b. "University of Mary Washington? How awkward!" Letter to the editor, The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA) (11/27/03).
  2. Fallon, Paul D. 2003c. The death of Joseph R. Applegate. Linguist List 14.2891. <http://linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-2891.html#1> (10/23/03).
  3. Fallon, Paul D. 2001b. “Dispute over origins of ‘F#@k’ continue.” Letter to the editor, The Hilltop, (Howard University Student Newspaper) 85.16 (10/23/2001) A9.
  4. Fallon, Paul D. 2001c. Gullah Conference Held at Howard University. Trombones (Howard Dept. of English newsletter) (Feb. 2001):7.
  5. Fallon, Paul D. 2000. Lorenzo Dow Turner: Pioneering African American linguist. Trombones (Howard Dept. of English newsletter) 2.1:4.

Teaching Experience

  • Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of English, Linguistics, and Speech, University of Mary Washington, August 2005 to present.
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Howard University, August 1999-June 2005.
  • Lecturer, Dept. of English, Howard University, August 1997 to May 1999.
  • Lecturer, Dept. of English, Linguistics, and Speech, Mary Washington College, August 1995 to May 1997 and Summer 1999.
  • Lecturer, Dept. of English, University of Maryland, College Park, Spring 1995 and 1996.
  • Lecturer, Dept. of English, George Mason University, Spring 1995.
  • Lecturer, Dept. of Linguistics, Georgetown University, Fall 1994.
  • Lecturer, Writing Program, Princeton University, Spring 1993.
  • Academic Program Specialist, Spoken English Program, The Ohio State University, June 1992 to September 1993.

  • Graduate Teaching Associate for graduate phonology course, Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University. March to June 1993.

  • Graduate Teaching Associate, Spoken English Program, The Ohio State University, June 1991 to June 1992.

  • Graduate Teaching Associate for undergraduate courses, Dept. of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, September 1990 to June 1991.

Grants                           

  1. National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Award. "Bilin Oral Narratives." ($24,000). June 1-Dec. 3l, 2004.
  2. Howard University Sponsored Faculty Research Program in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Education grant. "An acoustic phonetic study of Bilin Consonants and Vowels." July 2004-June 2005. ($9,592).
  3. Howard University Fund for Academic Excellence Travel Grant. Tenth Cycle. Spring 2004. "Travel to Present Papers at Conferences on African Linguistics." ($2,303.83).
  4. Howard University Fund for Academic Excellence Travel Grant. Ninth Cycle. Spring 2003. "Travel to Present Papers at the International Humanities Conference and the World Congress of African Linguists/International Symposium of Marginalized Languages of Africa." ($4,000).
  5. Howard University New Faculty Award. AYs 2000-2002. “The Phonetics and Phonology of Selected African Languages.” ($47,330).
  6. Howard University Funds for Academic Excellence Grant. Fifth Cycle. Fall 1999. “A conference on the 50th anniversary of Turner’s book Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect.” ($5,000).
  7. Howard University Faculty Sponsored Research Program. “Linguistic Fieldwork in a Targeted Afro-Asiatic Language.” AY 1999-2000. ($5,578).
  8. Howard University Funds for Academic Excellence Grant. Fourth Cycle, Spring 1999. “Incorporating Computer and AV Technology into ‘Language Survey.’” ($2,031.77).

Refereed Presentations                           

  1. Blin Orthography: A History and an Assessment. 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Savannah, Georgia, March 31-April 3, 2005.
  2. Bilin Pluralization: Affixation, Mutation, and Reduplication. 79th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Oakland, 6-9 January 2005.
  3. Consonant Mutation and Reduplication in Bilin Plurals. 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL-35). Harvard University, 2-4 April 2004.
  4. Reduplication in Frequentative Verbs in Bilin (Central Cushitic). Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, 8-11 January 2004.
  5. Linguistics: A bridge between science and the humanities. International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece, 2-5 July 2003.
  6. The best is not good enough: Scouring a previously documented language for more. International Symposium on the Marginalized Languages of Africa. Rutgers University, 17-22 June 2003.
  7. Frequentative reduplication in Bilin. Joint meeting of the 4th World Conference on African Linguistics (WOCAL-4) and the 34th Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL-34). Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 17-22 June 2003.
  8. Bilin: One language divided by two scripts. The Fourth International Conference of Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Leiden, Netherlands, 10-12 April 2 003.
  9. Patterns of ejective deglottalization. 29th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. Parasession on Phonetic Sources of Phonological Patterns: Synchronic and Diachronic Evidence. Berkeley, CA, 14-17 Feb. 2003. (First alternate).
  10. Some segmental processes in Bilin. 27th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Special Session on Afro-Asiatic Linguistics. Berkeley, CA, 24-25 March 2001.
  11. Ejective Phonology and Factorial Typology. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Washington, DC, 6 Jan. 2001.
  12. Internal Development and External Influence: Phonological Change in Zerq’ Chechen. 45th Annual Conference, International Linguistic Association, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 7 April 2000.
  13. The Phonological Asymmetry of Ejective Assimilation: Evidence from Caucasian Languages. First Chicago Conference on Caucasia. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 7, 1999.
  14. Feature geometry, debuccalization, and secondary articulation. Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS). The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 17, 1998.
  15. Convergence in Chechen-Arabic language contact. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana, March 28, 1998.
  16. Debuccalization with preservation of secondary articulation. The 17th Annual Meeting of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL). (Alternate). University of British Columbia, Feb. 20-22, 1998.
  17. Phonological borrowing and sound change in a Chechen-Arabic bilingual. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics. Orlando, FL, March 1997.
  18. Clicking on clicks: Teaching with “The Sounds of the World’s Languages”. Faculty Academy ’96: ‘Combining pedagogy and technology in the disciplines’ (with Christina Kakavá). Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, May 19, 1996.
  19. Three parameters of debuccalization. The 70th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 5, 1996.
  20. A phonological description of Zerq’ Chechen. The 9th Biennial Conference on Non-Slavic Languages (NSL) of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 5, 1995.
  21. Diachronic typology: The case of ejectives. The 21st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. The University of California, Berkeley, CA, Feb. 19, 1995.
  22. The development of emphatics from ejectives. The 68th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Boston, MA, January 6, 1994.
  23. Naturally occurring hiatus in Modern Greek. First International Conference on Greek Linguistics. The University of Reading, Reading, England, September 17, 1993.
  24. Liquid dissimilation in Georgian. The Tenth Eastern States Conference on Linguistics (ESCOL). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, August 8, 1993.
  25. Verbal ablaut in Chechen. The Eighth Biennial Conference on Non-Slavic Languages of the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltic Republics. The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 15, 1993.
  26. The problem with /æ/: Teaching American pronunciation to NNSs. The 27th Annual TESOL Convention. Atlanta, GA, April 16, 1993.
  27. The development of Proto-Nakh ejectives: Evidence bearing on the Glottalic Theory. The 37th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association. Georgetown University, Washington, DC, April 25, 1992.
  28. The TRAP-BATH Split in British English and its consequences for teaching American pronunciation. Ohio TESOL, April 11, 1992.
  29. Palatalization in Portuguese. Georgetown University Round Table (GURT) Presession. Washington, DC, March 11, 1988.

Professional Service

  • Associate Editor, The International Journal of the Humanities. Anonymous reviewer for three articles in Sept. 2003, May 2004, and September 2004.
  • Moderator for the panel "Culture Unabashed by Modernity" for the Arena Stage 2004 Symposium "Yellowman: Class and Color in American Drama" held at the National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, April 17, 2004.
  • Ad hoc (specialist) reviewer for National Science Foundation proposals (4/18/03 and 11/18/01).
  • Appointed Member, Advisory Board of The Linguist List, ISSN 1068-4875, the premier list serve and website for over 17,000 linguists around the world. <http://www.linguistlist.org/advisory.html>. May 2001 to present.
  • Mentor to Brea Stevenson, Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, for the project “Debuccalization in African American English,” Spring and summer 2001.
  • Guest panelists on the Prestige Cable talk show “Midweek with Bob Siegrist” on “The Use and Misuse of the English Language.” (Oct. 11, 1999).
  • Presider, Language and Society session at the MLA, Dec. 28, 1996.ESCOL abstracts committee (phonology), 1993.
  • Contributor, Language Files, Ohio State University Dept. of Linguistics, 1993.

Languages                           

Fluent in Portuguese.

Proficient in Spanish.

Reading knowledge of French and Italian.

Intermediate in Modern Greek.

Also formally studied at least two quarters/semesters of German, Russian, Latin, and Ancient Greek.

Linguistic fieldwork with Blin (or Bilin; Cushitic; in Eritrea, Washington and London), Chechen (Nakh-Daghestanian), Angas (Chadic), and Tigre (Semitic).

 

 
             


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