Ryan Gehrmann
PhD Linguistics & English Language
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: R.M.Gehrmann@sms.ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Background
MA in Linguistics (2016)
Payap University, Thailand
Thesis title: ‘The West Katuic languages: comparative phonology and diagnostic tools’
Committee: Larin Adams, Phinnarat Akharawatthanakun, Phanintra Teeranon (Chair)
BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures (2009)
University of Delaware, USA
Concentration: German, Russian & Italian
CV
88699.pdf
Research summary
Historical phonology, tonogenesis, registrogenesis, Austroasiatic languages (especially of the Katuic and Bahnaric sub-groups)
Project activity
My PhD project is concerned with the emergence of tone and register in Southeast Asian languages. I propose an integrated model of tonogenesis and registrogenesis, the Desegmental Model, which can succinctly describe the transphonologization of segmental contrasts as suprasegmental contrasts (desegmentalization).