Jeroen van de Weijer
Encyclopedia
Jeroen van de Weijer teaches phonology
, morphology
, phonetics
, psycholinguistics
, historical linguistics
and other courses at Shanghai International Studies University
, where he is Full Professor of English linguistics under the "211-Project"
at the College of English Language and Literature. After his first degree in English at Radboud University Nijmegen
, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
in Nijmegen and obtained his PhD in linguistics
at Leiden University
. He taught for brief periods at Radboud University Nijmegen
, University College London
and for over ten years at Leiden University
. He is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
. Van de Weijer specializes in phonological theory, the phonology-morphology interface, varieties of English
, and East Asian languages
. He helped edit the journal of Latin and Romance linguistics Probus
(Mouton de Gruyter, Editor-in-chief: Leo Wetzels
) from 1986 until 2009, and published many edited collections, on a number of topics such as Optimality Theory
, Japanese
and Dutch
. His current research is focused on combining models of theoretical phonology
with psycholinguistics
.
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...
, morphology
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the identification, analysis and description, in a language, of the structure of morphemes and other linguistic units, such as words, affixes, parts of speech, intonation/stress, or implied context...
, phonetics
Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...
, psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the...
, 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 other courses at Shanghai International Studies University
Shanghai International Studies University
Shanghai International Studies University is a research, teaching, and multidisciplinary university based in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Founded in December 1949 as the former Shanghai Russian School, SISU is one of the top two universities that specialise in studying foreign languages...
, where he is Full Professor of English linguistics under the "211-Project"
Project 211
Project 211 is a project of National Key Universities and colleges initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, with the intent of raising the research standards of high-level universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development...
at the College of English Language and Literature. After his first degree in English at Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen is a public university with a strong focus on research in Nijmegen, the Netherlands...
, he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is an institute for scientific research in the area of psycholinguistics. The institute is located in Nijmegen in the province of Gelderland in The Netherlands. The institute is a member of the German Max Planck Society and is the only institute of...
in Nijmegen and obtained his PhD in linguistics
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 Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...
. He taught for brief periods at Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University Nijmegen is a public university with a strong focus on research in Nijmegen, the Netherlands...
, University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
and for over ten years at Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...
. He is a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970...
. Van de Weijer specializes in phonological theory, the phonology-morphology interface, varieties of English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and East Asian languages
East Asian languages
East Asian languages describe two notional groupings of languages in East and Southeast Asia:* Languages which have been greatly influenced by Classical Chinese and the Chinese writing system, in particular Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese .* The larger grouping of languages includes the...
. He helped edit the journal of Latin and Romance linguistics Probus
Probus (journal)
Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics is an international peer-reviewed academic journal of Latin and Romance linguistics, published by de Gruyter Mouton. Its editor in chief is Leo Wetzels . The journal is co-edited by Rafael Núñez-Cedeño and Jairo Nunes....
(Mouton de Gruyter, Editor-in-chief: Leo Wetzels
Leo Wetzels
Willem Leo Marie Wetzels is a full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Directeur de recherche at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie , CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris...
) from 1986 until 2009, and published many edited collections, on a number of topics such as Optimality Theory
Optimality theory
Optimality theory is a linguistic model proposing that the observed forms of language arise from the interaction between conflicting constraints. OT models grammars as systems that provide mappings from inputs to outputs; typically, the inputs are conceived of as underlying representations, and...
, Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
and Dutch
Dutch language
Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
. His current research is focused on combining models of theoretical 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...
with psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Initial forays into psycholinguistics were largely philosophical ventures, due mainly to a lack of cohesive data on how the...
.
Selected publications
- Secondary and Double Articulation. 2011. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elisabeth V. Hume and Keren Rice (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Phonology http://www.companiontophonology.com/public/, 694-710. Wiley Blackwell, London.
- Morphological Variation in Japanese. 2010. Co-editor: Tetsuo Nishihara. LinguaLinguaLingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics that was established in 1949 and is published by Elsevier. Its current editor-in-chief is Johan Rooryck ....
120, 2319-2423.
- Optimality Theory and Exemplar Theory. 2009. Phonological Studies 12, 117-124. Kaitakusha, Tokyo. ISBN 9784758905329.
- An X-bar approach to the syllable structure of Mandarin. 2008. LinguaLinguaLingua: An International Review of General Linguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal of general linguistics that was established in 1949 and is published by Elsevier. Its current editor-in-chief is Johan Rooryck ....
118, 1416-1428. Co-author: Jason Zhang.
- Voicing in Dutch http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20286. 2007. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 286. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Co-editor: Erik-Jan van der Torre. ISBN 9789027248015.
- Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AVT%2023. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Co-editor: Bettelou Los. ISBN 9789027231666.
- Voicing in Japanese http://www.degruyter.de/cont/imp/mouton/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110186000-1. 2005. Studies in Generative Grammar 84. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. Co-editors: Kensuke Nanjo and Tetsuo Nishihara. ISBN 9783110186000.
- The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments http://www.degruyter.com/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110182958-1. 2005. Studies in Generative Grammar 77. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. Co-editor: Marc van Oostendorp. ISBN 9783110182958.
- Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005 http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AVT%2022 John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Co-editor: Jenny Doetjes. ISBN 9789027231659.
- Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch - Lexicon, Grammar, Discourse http://lotos.library.uu.nl/publish/issues/Verhagen/index.html. 2003. LOT Occasional Publications 1. Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, Utrecht. Co-editor: Arie Verhagen. ISBN 9076864470.
- Patterns of Segmental Modification in Consonant Inventories: A Cross-Linguistic Study. 2003. LinguisticsLinguistics (journal)According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 0.557, ranking it 74th out of 144 journals in the category "Linguistics"....
41, 1041-1084. Co-author: Frans Hinskens.
- The Phonological Spectrum. Volumes I and II http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20233 and http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT%20234. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 233 and 234. 2003. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Co-editors: Harry van der Hulst and Vincent J. van Heuven. ISBN 9789027247469 (set).
- An Optimality Theoretical Analysis of the Dutch Diminutive. 2002. In Hans Broekhuis and Paula Fikkert (eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2002, 199-209. John Benjamins, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=AVT%2019
- Issues in Japanese Phonology and Morphology http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783110169584-1. 2001. Studies in Generative Grammar 51. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. Co-editor: Tetsuo Nishihara. ISBN 9783110169584.
- Optimality Theory: Phonology, Syntax and Acquisition http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/linguistics/9780198238447. 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Co-editors: Joost Dekkers and Frank van der Leeuw. ISBN 9780198238447.
- Analogical Change in Optimality Theory. 1999. Phonological Studies 2, 145-52. Kaitakusha, Tokyo. ISBN 9784758905329.
- Segmental Structure and Complex Segments http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detailEn.cfm?id=IS-9783484303508-1. 1996. Niemeyer, Tübingen. ISBN 9783484303508.
- Vowel Harmony. 1995. In John Goldsmith (ed.) The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 495-534. http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Phonological-Blackwell-Handbooks-Linguistics/dp/0631201262. Basil Blackwell, Oxford. Co-author: Harry van der Hulst. ISBN 9780631201267.