Ellen Broselow
Experimental linguist

Ellen Broselow

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Experimental linguist
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1949
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Ellen Broselow (born 1949) is an experimental linguist specializing in second language acquisition and phonology. She is currently a Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University.
Broselow received her PhD in linguistics from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976.
Broselow's research has focused on what sorts of mistakes second language learners make in perception and production in phonology, as well as loanword adaptation. She is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, and is a former associate editor of the journal Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Selected publications

  • Broselow, E. and Y. Kang. 2013. Second language phonology and speech. In J. Herschensohn and M. Young-Scholten (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, 529-554. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Broselow, E. 2009. Stress adaptation in loanword phonology: perception and learnability. In P. Boersma and S. Hamann (eds.) Phonology in Perception, 191-234. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Broselow, E. 2003. Marginal phonology: phonotactics on the edge. The Linguistic Review 20, 159-193.
  • Broselow, E. 1995. The skeletal tier and moras. In J. Goldsmith (ed.) A Handbook of Phonological Theory, 175-205. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
  • Broselow, E. and D. Finer. 1991. Parameter setting in second language phonology and syntax. Second Language Research 7, 35-59.