Michael John Kenstowicz (born August 18, 1945) is an American linguist and professor of linguistics at
MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
He is best known for his works on
phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians. ...
and
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 ...
. His book ''
Phonology in Generative Grammar'' is a coursebook taught across the world in phonology courses.
He is an editor of ''
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory'' since 1987.
Books
* ''
Phonology in Generative Grammar'', Blackwell Publications 1994
* ''
Generative Phonology: Description and Theory'', with Charles Kisseberth, Academic Press 1979
* ''Topics in Phonological Theory'', with Charles Kisseberth, Academic Press 1977
References
External links
Kenstowicz's CV
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Linguists from the United States
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
American phonologists
Living people
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
1945 births
San Jose State University alumni
University of Illinois alumni