Megan Crowhurst

Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist employed at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. She works in the area of phonology, researching aspects of prosody, especially prosodic morphology, phonological stress, and the perception of rhythm.[1] Often focusing on documenting these aspects within endangered languages,[2] she has conducted fieldwork with speakers of Tupi-Guarani languages in Bolivia and speakers of Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Raised in Sydney, Australia and Brandon, Manitoba (Canada), Crowhurst earned her BA in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in 1985. She received her MA and PhD at the University of Arizona, completing her dissertation in 1991 under the supervision of Diana Archangeli.[3] She has taught at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics.[4]

Crowhurst was a member of the Linguistic Society of America task force that created the Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA) to provide a system to offer mentoring opportunities for female linguists.[5][6] She also served on the LSA committee, Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, chairing the committee in 2001.[7][8][9]

Crowhurst was awarded a National Science Foundation grant in 1997 to study Phonological Analysis of Indigenous Languages of Eastern Bolivia.[10] In 2012 she received another NSF grant to research "Beyond the Iambic/Trochaic Law: Perceptual influences on subjective grouping of rhythmic speech.”[11]

Beginning in 2013 Crowhurst served as an Associate Editor of the journal Language, then served as its Senior Associate Editor (beginning in 2016) and its Co-Editor (beginning in 2017) until January, 2020.[12] Crowhurst is also a co-founder (in 2012, with Eric Bakovic, Eugene Buckley and Matt Gordon) of the journal which is now Phonological Data and Analysis,[13] since 2017, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America. Crowhurst was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in January, 2021.[14]

Selected publications

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1992. Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis. Phonology.[15]

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1994. Foot extrametricality and template mapping in Cupeño. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Megan Crowhurst and Mark Hewitt. 1995. Prosodic overlay and headless feet in Yidiɲ. Phonology.

Catharine H. Echols, Megan J. Crowhurst and Jane B. Childers. 1997. The Perception of Rhythmic Units in Speech by Infants and Adults. Journal of Memory and Language. 36(2): 202-225.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2004. Mora alignment. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

Megan Jane Crowhurst and Lev D. Michael. 2005. Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa). Language.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2011. Constraint conjunction. Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume, & Keren Rice, eds., Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, pp. 1461–1490.

Megan Crowhurst and Sara Trechter. 2014. Vowel-rhotic metathesis in Guarayu. International Journal of American Linguistics.

Megan Crowhurst. 2016. Iambic-Trochaic law effects among native speakers of Spanish and English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 7(1), 12.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The joint influence of vowel duration and creak on the perception of internal phrase boundaries. J. Accoustical Society of America, 143(3), EL147-153. DOI: 10.1121/1.5025325

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The influence of varying vowel phonation and duration on rhythmic grouping preferences among Spanish and English speakers. J. Phonetics, 66 (Jan.), 82-99. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.001

Megan J. Crowhurst. 2019. The Iambic/Trochaic Law: Nature or Nurture? Language and Linguistic Compass, 2019;e12360. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12360

References
  1. "Google Scholar Megan Crowhurst". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-09-01.
  2. Foundation for Endangered Languages, https://www.ogmios.org/ogmios_files/74.htm
  3. University of Arizona, UA Campus Repository, http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/185652
  4. https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/
  5. Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, http://www.ling.wisc.edu/wilma/history.php
  6. Abigail J. Stewart, Janet E. Malley and Danielle LaVaque-Manty. 2007. Transforming Science and Engineering: Advancing Academic Women. P. 165. University of Michigan Press.
  7. LSA October 2000 Bulletin, http://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/LSA%20Bulletin%20170%20December%202000.pdf
  8. Darlene Superville, "Half of world's 6,800 languages face extinction," Augusta Chronicle, June 21, 2001. http://old.chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2001/06/21/ent_314307.shtml
  9. CBSNews.com staff, "The Death Of Languages," June 19, 2001 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-death-of-languages/
  10. https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9603215&HistoricalAwards=false
  11. National Science Foundation, Award# 1147959, https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1147959
  12. The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Linguistics News, Tue, October 20, 2015, http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/news/article.php?id=9935
  13. https://phondata.org/index.php/pda
  14. https://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2020/12/24/nine-be-inducted-fellows-lsa
  15. James Harris. 1994. “The OCP, Prosodic Morphology and Sonoran Spanish diminutives: a reply to Crowhurst” Phonology, Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 1994, pp. 179-190.

LSA Member Spotlight: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/january-2016-member-spotlight-megan-crowhurst

Video, “Beyond the Iambic-Trochaic Law”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wiCzy4YBA

Faculty page at UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/crowhurs

The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America—South American Languages Collection of Megan Crowhurst:

Calgary Herald, May 17, 2008. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?pid=109851317

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