Charles Reiss ( ) is an American

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

professor teaching at

Concordia University Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...

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. His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

historical linguistics Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages. Historical li ...

, and

cognitive science Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include percep ...

. Along with colleague Mark Hale, he is a proponent of substance-free phonology, the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation (see paper "Substance abuse and "). He graduated from

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the e ...

(BA) and

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(PhD).

Selected works

*In press. Reiss, Charles. Research methods in armchair linguistics. http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/007568 In ''Oxford Handbook of'' ''philosophy of linguistics'', ed. Gabriel Dupre, Ryan Nefdt, and Kate Stanton. Oxford University Press *2022. Reiss, Charles. Priority union and feature logic in phonology. ''Linguistic Inquiry'' 53:199–209 *Reiss, Charles, and Veno Volenec. 2022. Conquer primal fear: Phonological features are innate and substance free. ''Canadian Journal of Linguistics'' 67:581–610 *2022. Grestenberger, Laura, Charles Reiss, Hannes A. Fellner, and Gabriel Z. Pantillon, ed. ''Ha! Linguistic Studies in Honor of Mark R. Hale.'' Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag *2022. Reiss, Charles. Plastics. In Grestenberger et al., 327–330. *2021. Reiss, C. Towards a complete Logical Phonology model of intrasegmental changes. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 107. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.5886 *2021. Reiss, Charles, and Veno Volenec. Naturalism, internalism and nativism: the legacy of The Sound Pattern of English . In ''Wiley-Blackwell Companion to'' ''Chomsky,'' ed. Nicholas Allott, Terje Lohndal, and Georges Rey. Wiley-Blackwell *2020. Volenec, Veno, and Charles Reiss. Formal generative phonology. ''Radical: A Journal'' ''of Phonology 2:1–148'' * 2020''.'' Cuerrier, Ana¨ele, and Charles Reiss. Geminates and vowel laxing in Quebec French. ''In Proceedings of LSRL 47,'' ed. Irene Vogel, 66–76. John Benjamins *2020 Reiss, Charles, and Marc Simpson. Reduplication as projection. ''Revue roumaine de'' ''linguistique'' (Based on work presented at GLOW.) *''2019 Reiss, Charles. Introduction: Phonology as mental grammar. Loquens 6:1–2.'' URL http://loquens.revistas.csic.es/index.php/loquens/article/view/70 *2019 Bale, Alan, Charles Reiss, and David Ta-Chun Shen''.'' Sets, rules and natural classes: vs. '. Loquens 6:e065'' *2019''.'' Volenec, Veno, and Charles Reiss. The intervocalic palatal glide in cognitive phonetics. ''In Proceedings of the 49th Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society,'' 255–264 *2018. Bale, Alan, and Charles Reiss
Phonology: A formal introduction. MIT Press
2018. *2017. Reiss, Charles. 2017a. Contrast is irrelevant in phonology: A simple account of Russian /v/ as /V/. In Samuels (2017), 23–45 *2017. Reiss, Charles. Substance Free Phonology. In ''Handbook of Phonological Theory,'' ed. S.J. Hannahs and Anna Bosch, 425–452. New York: Routledge *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
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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
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(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

Phonologists from the United States Living people Academic staff of Concordia University Year of birth missing (living people) Swarthmore College alumni Harvard University alumni {{US-linguist-stub