Janet Grijzenhout Mailing address Dr. Janet Grijzenhout English Department Instituut Vreemde Talen   Utrecht University  Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht  the Netherlands Telephone number in Utrecht  ++ 31 - 30 - 2536014 (office)  E-mail address in Düsseldorf   grijzenh@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de    Main research interests:   Phonology, Morphology, First and Second Language Acquisition, English Linguistics, Historical Linguistics.   Curriculum Vitae Conference Presentations Publications & Manuscripts

CURRICULUM VITAE

Janetta (Janet) Grijzenhout

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

2001	Habilitationsschrift (Post-doc thesis), Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Thesis title: "West-Germanic Sound Structure: A Contrastive Study".
1995	PhD in Linguistics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Thesis title: "Irish Consonant Mutation and Phonological Theory". Thesis supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wim Zonneveld.
1992/93	Early Irish language and literature, University College Dublin, Ireland.
1988/89	Icelandic language and literature, Háskoli Íslands, Reykjavík, Iceland.
1988	MA in General Linguistics, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Thesis title: "Vowel length, weight and rhyme structure in Dutch, Icelandic and Swedish".  Thesis supervisor: Dr. Harry van der Hulst
1987	MA in English Language and Literature, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Thesis title: "The Change of Relative that to who and which in ten Seventeenth-century Comedies". Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
1986	training in didactics and teaching English as a foreign language, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

since 2002	Docent-onderzoeker Engelse Taalvaardigheid (teaching English language and proficiency courses), Instituut Vreemde Talen, Department of English, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
1997 to 2002	Assistant professor (general linguistics and phonology), Institut für Sprache  und Information, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, Germany.
	January 1998 - February 2002: project manager of an SFB-project on  Lexical Phonology and Constraint-based Phonology.
	January 1999 - December 2002: project manager  (together with Prof. Dr. Dieter Wunderlich) of an SFB-project on Nonconcatenative Morphology . Both research projects are part of the SFB 282 "Theorie des Lexikons" at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf.
1996	Teaching postdoc, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto,  Toronto, Canada (1 January - 1 July) and
	Visiting researcher, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS),  Berlin, Germany (1 August - 1 December).
1995	Visiting scholar, Department of Linguistics, McGill University,  Montreal, Canada (1 September - 15 December).
1991 to 1995	Teaching assistant and research assistant ('AIO'), Research Institute of Language and Speech (OTS), Utrecht University, the Netherlands (January 1991 - June 1995).
1990	Lecturer of linguistics courses (undergraduate level), English proficiency courses, courses in autosegmental phonology and metrical phonology (graduate level), Department of English, Utrecht University.
1989	Lecturer of linguistics courses and language proficiency courses, Department of English, Utrecht University and
	Teacher of English at PTT-telecom (the Dutch telecom-company).
1988/89	Translator English-Dutch and Icelandic-Dutch in Reykjavík, Iceland.
1987	Teacher of English at the "Leidse School voor MEAO" (Leiden School for economics and administration), Leiden, the Netherlands.
1984/85	Tourist information guide, Delft, the Netherlands.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Taught courses (last 6 years)

2002 at Utrecht University and University College Utrecht (UCU)
        English Proficiency II: Speaking (Engelse Taalvaardigheid II), spring 2002: Blocks 3 + 4
        English Proficiency III: Writing (Engelse Taalvaardigheid III), spring 2002: Blocks 4 + 5
        English Proficiency IV: Speaking and Writing (Engelse Taalvaardigheid IV), spring 2002: Block 3
        English Linguistics I: Written English, fall semester 2002: Block 1
        General Linguistics: Inleiding Fonologie en Morfologie, fall semester 2002: Block 2
        Communicating in English for Academic Purposes, spring semester 2002 at UCU
        Two courses 'English for Academic Purposes', advanced level, fall semester 2002 at UCU

1997-2002 at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf:

undergraduate level ('Methodenkurs' or 'Proseminar')
Autosegmental phonology (summer semester 1997 & winter semester 2001/2002)
Linguistics introduction (winter semester 1997/98)
Introductory course to phonetics & phonology (1998 & 1999/2000, 2001)
Contrastive phonology English - German (summer semester 1998)
First Language Acquisition (winter semester 1998/99)
Phonology and morphology of Celtic languages (summer semester 1999, with Martin Krämer)
Optimality Theory (summer semester 2000)
Historical linguistics (summer semester 2000, with Stefan Tröster)
Essential readings in phonology (winter semester 2000/2001)
 
graduate level ('Hauptseminar')
Recent developments in phonology (summer semester 1997)
Lexical Phonology and Optimality Theory (winter semester 1997/98)
Correspondence Theory (winter semester 1998/99 & 2000/2001)
Government Phonology (summer semester 1999)
Connectionism, Minimalism and OT (winter semester 1999/2000, with Martina Penke)
Contrastive phonology: Germanic languages (winter semester 2001/2002)

Organisation of workshops

• 2000 Organisation (together with Birgit Gerlach) of the SFB-colloquium "Phonologie" (30 June) in Wuppertal and the SFB-colloquium "Bound and free elements in phonology, morphology, and syntax" in Düsseldorf, Germany (28 January)

 
• 1999 Organisation (together with Birgit Gerlach) of the "Workshop on Clitics" at the 21. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 24-26 February, Konstanz, Germany.

 
• 1998 Organisation (together with Martin Krämer) of the SFB-colloquium "Wordstress" (8 May) and the SFB-colloquium "Phonological Features and Phonological Domains" in Düsseldorf, Germany (5 June). 

 
• 1996 Organisation of a workshop on Coronals together with Elan Dresher and Keren Rice in Toronto, Canada (23 May).

 
Reviewing
 
• 1995 - 2002 reviews for several conferences (NELS, GLOW), Festschriften, journals (Phonology, Canadian Journal of Linguistics) and proceedings.

 

MA and PhD Thesis Supervisor

Diana Apoussidou (first supervisor Prof. Dr. Dieter Wunderlich), MA Thesis on stress-assignment in Modern Greek (graduated April 2001 in Düsseldorf, currently employed as PhD-student at the University of Amsterdam(UVA)).

Dafna Graf (first supervisor Prof. Dr. Dieter Wunderlich), PhD Thesis on Modern Hebrew Phonology and Morphology (PhD student in Düsseldorf since January 2000).

Martin Krämer , (first supervisor Prof. Dr. Dieter Wunderlich), PhD Thesis on Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory (PhD student from January 1998 - March 2001; graduated December 2001 in Düsseldorf, currently employed as lecturer at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland).

Michaela Zander (first supervisor Prof. Dr. James Kilbury), MA Thesis on First Language Acquisition (graduated December 1999 in Düsseldorf).

 

PhD Dissertation Committee Member

• Silke Hamann, PhD dissertation: Retroflex (PhD student in Utrecht and Berlin since 2000).
• Astrid Holtman, PhD dissertation: A Generative Theory of Rhyme: An Optimality Approach, graduated November 1996 in Utrecht (external member).
• Ulrike Janssen, PhD dissertation Akzent im Deutschen und Niederländischen (PhD student in Düsseldorf since 1998).
  
• Wenckje Jongstra, PhD dissertation Variation in Reduction Strategies in First Language Acquisiton (PhD student in Toronto since 1998).
• Brigit van der Pas, PhD dissertation The B(an)ana in First Language Acquisition: Onset Selection in Truncation Phenomena (PhD student in Utrecht since September 1999).
• Juliette Waals, PhD dissertation An Experimental View of the Dutch Syllable, graduated January 1999 in Utrecht (external member).

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2002	"Unerwartete Effekte im Zweitspracherwerb", Wissenschaftlicher Vortrag, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 23 April.
	"The emergence of the unmarked in first and second language acquisition: an OT-based account", 24. Jahrestagung der DGfS, Universität Mannheim, Germany, 28 February.
2001	"VW in English, Dutch and German", GGS-Meeting, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany,  15 June.
2000	"Constraint-demotion and constraint-transfer in second language acquisition", GGS-Meeting, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2 June and Fourth Utrecht Biannual Phonology Workshop, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 22 June.
	"Wo ist /r/ im Niederländischen?", Marburg-Düsseldorf Phonology Meeting, Düsseldorf, Germany, 5 May.
	"Voicing and devoicing in German, English, and Dutch",  LSSA-Conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 14 January.
	& Bertus van Rooij. "Voicing phenomena in Zulu-English", Workshop on Black South African English, Cape Town University & Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir CHO, South Africa.
1999	"Consonant nasalization, nasal harmony, and nasal epenthesis", Conference on Distinctive Feature Theory, ZAS, Berlin, 8 October.
	"The lack of onsets in German child phonology", GALA'99, University of Potsdam, Germany, 11 September.
	"Duration and Voicing in Obstruents: Reflections on Dutch and English Voicing Assimilation", Workshop on Laryngeals, ZAS, Berlin, 17 July.
	"Dutch Devoicing and Voicing Assimilation: a Case of OT-Constraint Interaction", Workshop on Constraints and/versus Preferences during the 32nd Poznan Linguistics Meeting in Poland, 1 May.
	"Omitting Onsets in German Child Phonology", SFB-colloquium on language acquisition, Cologne, Germany, 23 April.
1998	& Martin Krämer, "Final Devoicing and Voicing Assimilation in Dutch: The Interaction of Alignment and Featural Identity", Conference of the SFB 282 'Lexicon in Focus' in Wuppertal, Germany, 18 August.
	& Sandra Joppen "German Child Language and Phonological Features: A Case Study",  Third Utrecht Biannual Phonology Workshop, Utrecht University, 11 June.
	"Suffixes, clitics, stress, and final devoicing in Dutch", The 6th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester, U.K., 22 May.
	"Ein OT-Ansatz zur Auslautverhärtung und Akzentverschiebung im Niederländischen", Universität Konstanz, Germany, 14 May.
	"Eine constraint-basierte Analyse von Akzentverschiebung und Auslautverhärtung im Niederländischen", SFB-colloquium on word stress, Düsseldorf, 8 May.
	"Double V", Linguistics in the Netherlands , Utrecht, 17 January.
1997	"Suffixe, Klitika und Auslautverhärtung im Niederländischen", SFB-Mitarbeitertreffen, Solingen, Germany, 18 November.
	"The Role of Coronal Specification in German and Dutch Phonology and Morphology", International Workshop on Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany, 28 August.
	"Konsonantenmutation", SFB-colloquium on 'Prosodisch/phonologische Aspekte des Lexikons', Wuppertal, Germany, 6 June.
	"Sonority and Autosegmental Phonology", Third HIL Phonology Conference (HILP 3),  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 10 January.
1996	"Weakening, Strengthening, and Nasalization: the things that happen to consonants in morphological environments", Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin,  25 October.
	"Consonant Mutations and Aperture Theory", Canadian Linguistics Association (CLA)  Annual Conference, Brock University, St. Catherines, Canada, 26 May.
	"Asymmetries and Coronal Consonants", Workshop on Coronals, organised by  Elan Dresher, Janet Grijzenhout, and Keren Rice, University of Toronto, 23 May.
	"Aperture Theory and Consonant Weakening Processes", FLSM VII, Ohio State University, USA, 17 May.
	"Consonant Nasalization and Aperture Theory", Phonology Group, University of Toronto, Canada, 15 April.
	"Aperture Theory and Kaingang Nasal Consonants", MOT Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 3 February.
1995	"Lenition and Fortition", McGill University Phonology Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 21 November.
	"The sounds of Old Irish", Celtic Colloquium , Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 13 May.
	"Consonant Mutation and Optimality Theory", phonology research group, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 2 February.
1994	"Phonological and Syntactic Aspects of Modern Irish Consonant Mutation", Tilburg Linguistics Workshop, the Netherlands, 30 November.
	"Poetic End-Rhyme in Early Middle Irish with Special Reference to Sonority", Parasession on the Generative Grammar of Irish, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, N-Ireland, 25 June.
1993	"Feature Geometry and the (under)specification of nasals and laterals", OTS graduate linguistics group, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 22 October.
	"Feature Geometry and Coronal Underspecification", the first HIL-Phonology Conference (HILP 1), Leiden University, the Netherlands, 16 January.
1990	"Modern Icelandic Foot Formation", 21st annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands, Utrecht University, 20 January.
1989	"Icelandic Syllable Structure", special phonology session of the department of Icelandic, Háskoli Íslands, Reykjavík, Iceland, 15 March.

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PUBLICATIONS & MANUSCRIPTS

Books

2001	West-Germanic Sound Structure: A Contrastive Study, Habilitationsschrift ('postdoctoral dissertation'), submitted to the Faculty of Arts at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 9 October.

1995	Irish Consonant Mutation and Phonological Theory, PhD dissertation, Utrecht: Led (232 pp.).

Edited Volume

2000	Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax, LA 36. Co-edited with Birgit Gerlach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company (441 pp.).

Refereed Journal Articles and Reviews

2002	Book notice of Geert Booij (2002) "The Morphology of Dutch" in Journal of Linguistics.
	"Stress at the phonology-morphology interface", in Ingrid Kaufmann and Barbara Stiebels (eds), Studia Grammatica 53 "More than Words", Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 15-45.
	Review of Barbara Handford Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger (1998) "Handbook of Phonological Development: From the Perspective of Constraint-Based Nonlinear Phonology", in WORD 53.1, 83-87 [rev pdf file ].
2001	"Representing nasality in consonants", in T. Alan Hall (ed.), Studies on Distinctive  Feature Theory, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 177-210.
	Book notice of Barbara Handford Bernhardt and Joseph P. Stemberger (1998)  "Handbook of Phonological Development: From the Perspective of Constraint- Based Nonlinear Phonology" in Diachronica.
2000	& Birgit Gerlach, "Clitics from different perspectives", introduction to Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout (eds), Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-29.
	& Martin Krämer, "Final Devoicing and Voicing Assimilation in Dutch Derivation and Cliticization", in Barbara Stiebels and Dieter Wunderlich (eds), Studia Grammatica 45 "Lexicon in Focus",  Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 55-82 [voice pdf file] .
1999	Review of Antony Dubach Green (1997) "The Prosodic Structure of Irish, Scots Gaelic,  and Manx", in Glot International, Volume 4, Issue 5, Den Haag: HAG, 13-15.
1998	"The Role of Coronal specification in German and Dutch Phonology and Morphology", in Wolfgang Kehrein & Richard Wiese (eds), Phonology and Morphology of the Germanic Languages. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 27-50.
1994	& Astrid Holtman, "Optimality and Poetic Rhyme in Early Irish", in Jan Don et al. (eds),  OTS Yearbook 1994, 43-62.
1993	"Monnikenwerk van Delftse kloosterzusters; Uniek misboek uit 1460 in Ierse bibliotheek", Delftse Post, 8 September.
1992	"The Change of Relative that to who and which in Late Seventeenth-century Comedies",  in Michael Barnes et al. (eds), NOWELE, Vol. 20, 33-52.
	& Wim Zonneveld, review of J. Kelly and J. Local, "Doing Phonology", Journal of  Phonetics 20, 167-171.
1991	"Fula Initial Consonant Mutation", in Peter Coopmans et al. (eds), OTS Yearbook 1991, 33-47.

Published Conference Proceedings

2002	& Sandra Joppen-Hellwig, "The lack of onsets in German child phonology", in I. Lasser  (ed.), The Process of Language Acquisition (Proceedings of GALA'99).  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag,  319-339. [ms. pdf file]
2001	"Devoicing and voicing assimilation in German, English and Dutch: a case of constraint interaction", in Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (ed.), Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs 134: "Constraints and Preferences". Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 201-228.
1997	"Sonority-changing processes in autosegmental phonology", in Geert Booij and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds), HIL Phonology Papers III. The Hague: HAG, 103-124.
1995	"Phantom Phonology and Aperture Positions", in Marcel den Dikken and Kees Hengeveld (eds), Linguistics in the Netherlands , 101-111.
	"Feature Geometry and Coronal Transparency", in Harry van der Hulst and Jeroen van de Weijer (eds),  HIL Phonology Papers I, The Hague: HAG, 165-185.
1990	"Modern Icelandic Foot Formation", in R. Bok-Bennema and P. Coopmans (eds),  Linguistics in the Netherlands , 53-62.

Working Papers and Manuscripts

2001	& Bertus van Rooij, "Voicing phenomena in Zulu-English: an OT-account of the emergence of the unmarked in second language acquisition".Revised version "Second language phonology: acquisition through gradual constraint demotion" in SFB 282 Working Paper Nr. 119.
2000	"Constraint-demotion and constraint-transfer in second language acquisition", Ms.
	"Voicing and devoicing in English, German, and Dutch; evidence for domain-specific identity constraints". SFB 282 Working Paper Nr. 116, [pdf file] .
1998	& Sandra Joppen, "First Steps in the Acquisition of German Phonology: A Case Study".  SFB 282 Working Paper Nr. 110. Revised version available as pdf file [ac pdf file ].
1996	"Weakening, strengthening, and nasalization; the things that happen to consonants in morphological environments", in Artemis Alexiadou et al. (eds), ZAS Papers in Linguistics, Volume 7, 27-53.
	"Consonant Mutation Processes and Aperture Theory", in Ana Pasquini, Lorna Rowsell, and Laura C. Smith (eds), Calgary Working Papers in Linguistics.

LINKS

Institute of Language and Information, Düsseldorf

Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 282 'Theorie des Lexikons'

SFB Project C10 'Lexical Phonology and Constraint-based Phonology'

SFB Project C12 'Nonconcatenative Morphology'

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