Dr Erich Round

BA Hons, BSc, MA (Melbourne), PhD (Yale)
 
Lecturer in Linguistics
 
Office: Gordon Greenwood Building (#32)
Phone: 07 3365 6892
Email: e.round@uq.edu.au
 
Teaching:
  • Introduction to language: Sound Patterns of Language
  • Speech Production and Perception  
  • Phonology
Research interests:
  • Phonology, phonetics & morphology of Australian languages
  • Tangkic languages of north-western Queensland: Lardil, Ganggalida (Yukulta), Yangkaal and Kayardild 
  • Theory of morphological inflection
Current research projects:
  • AusPhon, a database of phonological and phonetic characteristics of 200 Australian language varieties
Selected recent publications:
  • “Word final phonology in Lardil: Implications of an expanded data set” Australian Journal of Linguistics 31, forthcoming 2011.
  • “Function word erosion which is not a frequency effect: On exemplars and prosodic paradigm levelling” Lingua 121:287-301, 2011.
  • “Reappraising the effects of language contact in the Torres Strait” (with Jessica Hunter & Claire Bowern) Journal of Language Contact 4.1, 2011.
  • “Apical obstruents in pre-proto-Tangkic and the origins of the non-zero absolutive” BLS 32, forthcoming 2011.
  • “Syntactic reconstruction by phonology: Edge aligned reconstruction and its application to Tangkic truncation” in R. Hendery and J. Hendriks, eds. Grammatical change: theory and description, Canberra: CLRC, 2010.
  • “Tone height binarity and register in intonation: the case from Kayardild (Australian)” Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago: SProSIG, 2010.
  • “The subidentificational meanings of English some and Swedish någon: a comparative analysis of polysemy” Nordic Journal of Linguistics 27.2:169–195, 2004

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