Overview
Cohn's research focuses primarily on phonetics and phonology and their interaction taking a laboratory phonology approach. Often, phonetics and phonology are viewed as distinct areas of study. Yet there is an implicit relationship between phonology --the abstract patterning of sounds as part of a sound system, and phonetics--the physical output. The nature of this mapping has been at the center of her research, in which she has investigated both processes and representations within phonology and phonetics.
Cohn also focuses on the documentation and analysis of the Austronesian languages of Indonesia; recently she has been focusing on the issues of language use and language shift of the local languages of Indonesia as impacted by the increased use of Indonesian. In 2012-13, she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, at Unika Atma Jaya carrying out a research project entitled Language Contact in Indonesia: Shifts in Usage and their Structural Manifestations.
Research Focus
- Phonology
- Phonetics
- Laboratory Phonology
- Phonology-phonetics interface
- Language use and language shift in Indonesia
- Indonesian languages, English, French
Publications
Books
- (2012) Cohn, C. Fougeron and M. Huffman, Oxford University Press.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
- Phonology: Sound Structure, chapter 10. (2017). Cohn, A. In M. Aronoff and J. Rees-Miller (eds.) Handbook of Linguistics, 2nd edition. Oxford: Wiley. pp. 185-210.
- Laboratory Phonology (to appear) Cohn, A., C. Fougeron, and M. Huffman. In Anna Bosch and S.J. Hannahs (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Phonological Theory.
- (2016) Tilsen, S. and A. Cohn, S. Laboratory Phonology. Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 7(1), 14.
- (2016) Abtahian, M., A. Cohn and T. Pepinsky. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Volume 2016, Issue 242, Pages 139–170.
- (2016) Cohn, A and A. Riehl. NUSA: Linguistic Studies of Languages in and around Indonesia. Volume 60: 29-57.
- (2014) Ravindranath, M and A. Cohn. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 7: 64-75.
- (2014) Cohn, A and M. Ravindranath. Linguistik Indonesia 32.2: 131-148.
- (2014) Cohn, A. and M. Huffman. In Mark Aronoff (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies Online: Linguistics. New York: Oxford University Press.
- (2014) Cohn, A. Southeast Asia Program at Cornell Bulletin 5-9.
- (2013) Dich, N and A. Cohn Lingua 133: 213-229.
- (2013) Cohn, A., J. Bowden, T. McKinnon, M. Ravindranath, R. Simanjuntak, B. Taylor, Yanti.
- (2013) Cohn, A., J. Bowden, T. McKinnon, M. Ravindranath, R. Simanjuntak, B. Taylor, Yanti.
- , (2011) Cohn, A. In G. N. Clements and R. Ridouane (eds.) Where Do Features Come From? Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 15-41.
- "Partially-nasal segments," (with Anastasia Riehl) in M. van Oostendorp C. Ewen, E. Hume and K. Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- "," in C. Fougeron, B. Kühnert, M. D'Imperio, N. Vallé (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 10. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 3-29, 2011.
- , in Gradience in Grammar: Generative Perspectives, G. Faneslow, C. Fery, R. Vogel, and M. Schlesewsky (eds.), Oxford: OUP, pp. 25-44, 2006.
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