LSA 2009

Carlos Gussenhoven is Professor of General and Experimental Phonology at Radboud University Nijmegen and has an affiliation as Professor of Linguistics at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film of Queen Mary, University of London. He received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen in 1984. He has taught courses in phonology, intonation, varieties of English and the phonetics of English at both undergraduate and graduate levels in the Netherlands (LOT-courses), Britain and Germany (Konstanz, Stuttgart). His research focuses on the phonological structure of prosody and intonation, with a special interest in the interaction between lexical tone and intonation. His books include Understanding Phonology (2nd edition, Hodder Arnold/Oxford University Press, 2005, with Haike Jacobs) and The Phonology of Tone and Intonation (Cambridge University Press, 2004).