Kie Zuraw

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Department: Linguistics
3125 Campbell Hall
Box 951543
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
Phone: 310-710-0401
Email: kie@ucla.edu
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Keywords: Asia, Southeast Asia, Philippines, Linguistics

Current projects/interests in phonology

  • Exceptionality in phonology: learnability, representation, and processing
  • Variable/gradient/stochastic constraint ranking
  • Assimilation of new words into the lexicon; phonological selection of new words
  • Computational models of the speech community
  • Tagalog (and other) loanword phonology; language change through contact
  • Tagalog phonology in general
  • Reduplication
  • Nasal substitution in Austronesian languages

Asia Pacific Center

11387 Bunche Hall - Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

Campus Mail Code: 148703

Tel: (310) 825-0007

Fax: (310) 206-3555

Email: asia@international.ucla.edu

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