christina.bethin

Interested in the role of prosodic structure in phonology and morphology, Christina Bethin works on the syllable structure and metrical organization of the Slavic languages. She has done research on Ukrainian and Polish, specifically on the representation of the Polish nasal vowels, voicing assimilation, and syllable structure at the phonology-morphology interface. She also works on the historical phonology of the Slavic languages in order to understand how language structure affects language change. This research is concerned with finding a coherent theoretical explanation for a wide range of phonological phenomena, and with relating changes in sound structure to those in prosody. Her current work investigates constraints on quantity in Czech and Slovak, and is part of a larger project on markedness. On the editorial board of several Slavic journals, she is a two-time recipient of the AATSEEL Prize for the Best Book in Slavic Linguistics (1995, 1998) and the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Bethin also teaches Russian and Slavic linguistics in the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

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