Alan C. L. Yu

LSA 132: Topics in the phonology of Native American languages

Alan C. L. Yu is Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of California, Berkeley and has previously taught at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. He is the author of A Natural History of Infixation (Oxford University Press). His research interests include theoretical and experimental phonology, as well as descriptive and documentary work on Native American languages, especially Washo, an endangered language of California and Nevada.

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