Academic Staff

Dr Wyn Johnson

Position in departmentUndergraduate Linguistics Co-ordinator, 1st Year Linguistics Director, Study Abroad Officer
Staff positionSenior Lecturer [WJ]
E-mailwyn (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone2082 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Fax2198
Room4.209
Office hoursWednesday 10-11 Thursday 11-12 (1st term)
BiographyShe studied French and Linguistics for her first degree and took the MA in Theoretical Linguistics followed by a PhD on Aspects of the Lexical Phonology of French. Her main area of interest is phonology and she has taught courses in aspects of phonology including phonological theory, development and Sociophonology at Essex as well as general linguistics at both Essex and the University of East Anglia. She is joint author of A Course in Phonology and A Workbook in Phonology both published by Blackwell (1999) and Patterns in Child Phonology published by Edinburgh University Press (2010), as well as the Routledge French Dictionary.
Websitehttp://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~wyn/
QualificationsBA Essex, MA Essex, PhD Essex.
Current researchPhonological influences on variability in language change

The acquisition of Moroccan Arabic phonology (with N. Louriz)

Research interestsTheoretical Phonology

Descriptive Phonology

Phonological Acquisition

Sociophonology
 

Teaching responsibilitiesLG102-4-FY - Foundations of Sociolinguistics

LG103-4-FY - Foundations of Psycholinguistics

LG105-4-FY- Foundations of Linguistics

LG204-5-FY - English Phonetics & Phonology

LG404-6-FY - Phonology

LG404-7-AU - Theoretical & Descriptive Phonology

LG405-6-FY - Language Variation & English Phonology

LG405-7-AU - Sociophonology

LG421-6-SP - Phonological Development & Phonological Disorders

LG421-7-SP - Phonological Development & Phonological Disorders

LG510-7-AU - Foundations of Linguistics

LG605-7-SP - Sociophonology Research

LG631-7-SP - Constraint Based Phonology

Additional informationPhonology Research Group

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