Dr Toni Borowsky
| PhD University of Massachusetts at Amherst BA(hons) University of the Witwatersrand |
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| Phone | 9351 3479 | |||
| FAX | 9351 7572 | |||
| Location | Rm 228 Transient Building map |
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Editor of Australian Journal of Linguistics
Present Projects
- working with Barbara Horvath on a massive project investigating the vocalization of l in Australian and New Zealand English.
- working with Mark Harvey (University of Newcastle) on the nature of the word and of category specific morphology and phonology in Warray and Wagiman
- worrying about inter and intraword phonology in Optimality Theory with particular reference to English and Dutch.
Research Interests
- All kinds of Theoretical Phonology especially issues of lexical phonology in Optimality Theory.
- The formalization of phonological variation in OT
- Articulatory phonetics
- Language acquisition
- Working with Peter Avery at York University, Toronto on Reversing Games and Luo
Publications
- (forthcoming) "Dhochi: A Dholuo Language Game" (with Peter Avery)
- 2001 “The vocalisation of dark l in Australian English” in press in Blair, D and P.Collins (eds) English in Australia (VEAWG26) John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
- 2000 “Word-Faithfulness and the Direction of Assimilations” in The Linguistic Review 17.1, Mouton, Berlin.
- 2000 “Some Consequences of Word-Faithfulness” in University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers vol 24; Papers from the 25th Reunion. vol 24
- 1999 “The Minimal word in Warray” (with Mark Harvey) in Australian Journal of Linguistics 19.1 Cambridge University Press, U.K.
- 1997 “Vowel Length in Warray and Weight Identity” in Phonology 14.2, Cambridge University Press , U.K. (with Mark Harvey)
- 1997 “L Vocalization in Australian English: the Adelaide study” (with Barbara Horvath) in Hinskens, F, R. van Hout, and L. Wetzels (eds) Variation, Change and Phonological Theory. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
- 1995 “Hausa Plurals” in A Traill, R. v.Vossen and M. Biesele (eds) The Complete Linguist : papers in memory of Patrick Dickens. Rudiger, Koppe Verlag.
- 1993 “On the Word Level” in S. Hargus and E. Kaisse (eds) Phonetics and Phonology vol 4; Studies in Lexical Phonology, Academic Press, U.S.A.
- 1991 Topics in the Lexical Phonology of English in Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics, Garland Press, New York
- 1989 “Structure Preservation and the Syllable Coda in English” in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 7.2 Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands
- 1987 “Antigemination in English Phonology” in Linguistic Inquiry 18.4
- 1986 “Syllable Codas in English and syllabification” in Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 17.
- 1985 “Empty and Unspecified Segments” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) IV
- 1984 “On Resyllabification in English” in Proceedings of the West Coast Conference in Formal Linguistics (WCCFL) III
- 1983 “The Formal Representation of Ambisyllabicity: Evidence from Danish” (With J. Ito and R.-A. Mester) Proceedings of Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS) 14
- 1983 “Glide Insertion in Luganda” Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistis Society (CLS) 19
- 1983 “Aspiration to Roots: Remarks on the Sanskrit Diaspirates” (With R.-A. Mester) in Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistis Society (CLS) 19
- 1982 “Geminate Consonants in Luganda” in Current Approaches to African Linguistics. J.Kaye and D Sportiche (eds) Foris, The Netherlands.
- 1982 University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics (UMOP) 8, with Dan Finer, Amherst, MA.
- 1977 “Linguistically Disclassed or Sociolinguistically Adept?” in Perspectives in Education vol 2.1 Journal of the Faculty of Education of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Current Supervising Postgraduates
| Deborah James | Hippopotamus is still hard to say when you are seven: Children's acquisition of polysyllabic words |



