Charles Reiss
Encyclopedia
Charles Reiss is professor of Linguistics
at Concordia University
.
His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of phonology
, historical linguistics
, and cognitive science
.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Concordia University
Concordia University
Concordia University is a comprehensive Canadian public university located in Montreal, Quebec, one of the two universities in the city where English is the primary language of instruction...
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His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of phonology
Phonology
Phonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use...
, historical linguistics
Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages...
, and cognitive science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
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Selected works
- 2008. I-Language: An Introduction to Linguistics as a Cognitive Science. Oxford University Press.
- 2008. The Phonological Enterprise. Oxford University Press.
- 2007. Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces Oxford University Press.
- 2003. The subset principle in phonology: Why the tabula can't be rasa. In Journal of Linguistics 219-244.
- 2003. Deriving the feature-filling / feature-changing contrast: An application to Hungarian vowel harmony. In Journal of Linguistic Inquiry. 199-224