Colin J. Ewen is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics and Phonology at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

. He is known for his works on

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 ...

and is an editor of the journal ''

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 ...

''.

Books

* ''Principles of Dependency Phonology'' (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics), with

John Mathieson Anderson John Mathieson Anderson, FBA (born 1941) is a British linguist and academic. He is Emeritus Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, pos ...

* ''The Phonological Structure of Words: An Introduction'' (2001, with

Harry van der Hulst Harry van der Hulst (born 1953, The Hague) is full professor of linguistics and director of undergraduate studies at the department of linguistics of the University of Connecticut. He has been editor-in-chief of the international SSCI peer-revie ...

). .

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press was the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it was the oldest university press in the world. Cambridge University Press merged with Cambridge Assessme ...

. * ''The Blackwell Companion to Phonology'',

Marc van Oostendorp Marc van Oostendorp (; born 15 December 1967 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch linguist and Esperantist. From 2004 he has served as a weekly commentator on linguistics for Radio Noord-Holland. Since 2007, he has researched phonological microvariation, di ...

, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume and

Keren Rice Keren D. Rice (born 1949) is a Canadians, Canadian linguist. She is a professor of linguistics and serves as the director of the Centre for Aboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto. Education and career Rice earned her PhD in 1976 ...

(eds.), Wiley Blackwell, London. * ''Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological Papers in Honour of John Anderson'' (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005

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