Charles Reiss ( ) is an

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linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Ling ...

professor teaching at

Concordia University Concordia University (French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

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. His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of

phonology Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include: # to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages # ...

, and cognitive science. Along with colleague

Mark Hale Mark Hale is an Americans, American linguistics professor now teaching at Concordia University (Montreal), Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He studies the methodology of historical linguistics as well as theoretical linguistics, I ...

, he is a proponent of substance-free phonology, the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation (see paper 'Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism').

Selected works

*2018. Bale, Alan, and Charles Reiss
Phonology: A formal introduction. MIT Press
2018. *2017. Volenec, Veno, and Charles Reiss.
Cognitive Phonetics: The Transduction of Distinctive Features at the Phonology-Phonetics Interface

Biolinguistics
11 (2017): 251-294. *2014 (estimated). Hale, M., Kissock, M., & Reiss, C. An I-Language Approach to Phonologization and Lexification. Chapter 20. ''The Oxford Handbook of Historical Phonology.'' Edited by Patrick Honeybone and Joseph Salmons *2013. Isac D., & Reiss, C. 2013. I-language: An Introduction to Linguistics as Cognitive Science, 2nd edition. URL: http://linguistics.concordia.ca/i-language/ Oxford University Press. *2012. Towards a bottom-up approach to phonological typology. 2012. In Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on Interfaces, ed. A.M. di Sciullo. John Benjamins. Pages 169-191. *2009. Intermodular explanation in cognitive science: An example from phonology. In ''Pylyshyn Papers'', Don Dedrick and Lana Trick, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009. 17pp. * 2008. Hale, M., & Reiss, C. (2008
The Phonological Enterprise
Oxford: Oxford University Press
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I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as a Cognitive Science
Oxford University Press. * 2008. Constraining the Learning Path Without Constraints, or The OCP and NoBanana. I
Rules, Constraints and Phonological Phenomena
A. Nevins & B. Vaux, (eds.) Oxford University Press. 2008. * 2007.
Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
Oxford University Press. *2007. Computing Long-distance Dependencies in Vowel Harmony. I
Biolinguistics 1:28-48
(with F. Mailhot). * 2007. Microvariation, Variation, and the Features of Universal Grammar. ''Lingua'' 117.4. 2007. With Mark Hale and Madelyn Kissock. * 2003. The subset principle in phonology: Why the tabula can't be rasa. In ''Journal of Linguistics'' 219-244. * 2003. Deriving the feature-filling / feature-changing contrast: An application to Hungarian vowel harmony. In ''Linguistic Inquiry''. 199-224 *2003. Quantification in Structural Descriptions:Attested and Unattested Patterns. In ''The Linguistic Review'' 20. *2001. L2 Evidence for the Structure of the L1 Lexicon. ''International Journal of English Studies'' 1: 219-239. * 2000. Mark Hale & Charles Reiss. Substance abuse and dysfunctionalism: Current trends in phonology. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 31: 157-169 (2000).

References

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