Bert Remijsen
Chancellor's Fellow - Lecturer
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 6657
- Email: B.Remijsen@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Bert Remijsen in Research Explorer
Address
- Street
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Room 2.22, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Undergraduate teaching
In the 2020-2021 academic year, I am teaching:
- a Guided Research seminar on Shilluk intransitive verbs;
- on Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology (co-taught), a course for which I am also Course Organizer.
Postgraduate teaching
Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology (co-taught), a course for which I am also Course Organizer.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
- Mirella Blum (Lead)
- Esther Lam (Lead)
- Georges Sakr
Past PhD students supervised
PhD students
- Laura Arnold (Lead)
- Inga McKendry (second supervisor)
- Darryl Turner (second supervisor)
Research summary
My two main research interests are a) the descriptive analysis of the Shilluk language, and b) suprasegmental systems, that is, the way languages make use of pitch, duration, voice quality, loudness, and to some extent vowel quality. A lot of my past research contributes to establishing what kinds of suprasegmental systems occur - or can occur - in the languages of the world, and I have made contributions tot he study of tone, stress-plus-tone, vowel length, and intonation. This interest in suprasegmentals has brought me to the study of West Nilotic languages, in which tone, vowel length and voice quality play a central role in the phonology and morpholology. I started with the study of Dinka, and then moved on the Shilluk. Right now, I am building on my understanding of the Shilluk sound system and especially the suprasegmentals to produce a descriptive analysis of the Shilluk language. This research is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.