Sharon Rose

LSA 122: Phonological structures in languages of the Horn of Africa

Sharon Rose received her Ph.D. from McGill University in 1997 and is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego. Her research interests in phonology are descriptive, theoretical, and experimental, addressing topics such as root-and-pattern morphology, long distance agreement, ejectives and tone, with a focus on the languages of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. She is currently researching the Kordofanian language, Moro, funded by a grant from the NSF.

External website: http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~rose/