Bert Vaux

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Bert Vaux (November 19, 1968, Houston, Texas) teaches phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he taught for nine years at Harvard, where he taught and created two of the ten largest courses in the university. For each of his last six years, he was selected as one of its ten best professors. Vaux specializes in phonological theory, dialectology, field methodology, and languages of the Caucasus. His most recent large-scale project is the Harvard Survey of North American Dialects. Vaux was Editor of the journal Annual of Armenian Linguistics from 2001-2006 and the book series Oxford Surveys in Generative Phonology.

Vaux is also an accomplished musician. During his years at the University of Chicago, Vaux (often billed as "Buttsteak") was guitarist for the Redundant Steaks.

[edit] Professional History

University Lecturer in Phonology and Morphology, University of Cambridge, 2006-
Professor of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2003-2006
Asst. and Assoc. Professor of Linguistics, Harvard University, 1994-2003
PhD, Harvard University, 1994

[edit] Selected publications

"The Phonology of Armenian", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
"Introduction to Linguistic Field Methods", Munich: Lincom Europa, 1999.
"Phonological rules and representations", Oxford: Oxford University Press, to appear. (ed.)
"Aspiration and laryngeal features," Phonology 22, 2005.
"Syllabification in Armenian, Universal Grammar, and the lexicon," Linguistic Inquiry 34.1, 2003.
"Feature spreading and the representation of place of articulation," Linguistic Inquiry 31, 2000.
"The laryngeal specifications of fricatives," Linguistic Inquiry 29.3, 1998.
"The status of ATR in feature geometry," Linguistic Inquiry 27, 1996.