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Elizabeth Valerie Hume (born 29 October 1956) is a Canadian phonologist, professor emerita at the Ohio State University.

Education and career

Hume received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of G. N. Clements. She was a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University from 1992 to 2011. From 2006 to 2011, she served as professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. From 2011 to 2017, she was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She returned to Ohio State to serve as Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education from October 1, 2017 - November 8, 2021.

Her fields of research are sound systems of human language, factors influencing language variation and change, and the role of information and predictability in shaping language systems.

Honors

In 2022, Hume was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.

She was an associate editor of Phonology for many years beginning in 2008.

Works

• Goldsmith, John, Elizabeth Hume and Leo Wetzels, eds. 2011. Tones and Features. Phonetic and Phonological Perspectives. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110246216
• Hume, Elizabeth. 2004. The indeterminacy/attestation model of metathesis. Language 80(2), 203-237. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4489661.

References

1. "People | Department of Linguistics". linguistics.osu.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
2. "Alumni | Linguistics Cornell Arts & Sciences". linguistics.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
3. "2011 Department of Linguistics Newsletter by College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State - Issuu". issuu.com. Retrieved 2022-08-09.
4. "Hume, Beth | Office of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University". oaa.osu.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-08.
5. "Transition in the Office of Academic Affairs". Office of Academic Affairs, The Ohio State University. 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
6. "Elizabeth V. Hume (CV)" (PDF). University of Canterbury. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
7. "Elizabeth Hume". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
8. "Linguistic Society of America List of Fellows by Year". Retrieved 11 March 2022.
9. "OSU Linguistics Newsletter". www.ling.ohio-state.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-09.

External links

• Elizabeth V. Hume at the University of Canterbury

• Cornell University alumni
• Ohio State University faculty
• Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
• Linguists
• French-language education
• Phonologists from the United States
• 1956 births
• Living people
• American women linguists
• Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America