April McMahon

April Mary Scott McMahon (* 1964 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish linguist .

The subject of her research and publication work is the English language. She deals with the classification of languages ​​and the comparison of languages. The focus of her work was initially on pronunciation . She later focused on the changes in language throughout history.

McMahon received his PhD in 1989 from the University of Edinburgh on the subject of Constraining Lexical Phonology: Evidence from English vowels .

From 2000 to 2004 she was Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield . From 2005 she taught and researched at the University of Edinburgh.

She has been a Vice-Chancellor at the University of Aberystwyth since 2011. She is a Fellow of the British Academy (2005) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2003). In 2008 she was elected an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences . She has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 .

Fonts

• Handbook of English linguistics , 2006 (with Bas Aarts)
• Language classification by numbers , 2005 (with Robert McMahon)
• Introduction to English phonology , 2002
• Change, chance, and optimality , 2000
• Lexical phonology and the history of English , 2000
• Understanding language change , 1994

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about April McMahon ( Memento from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ Fellows: Professor April McMahon. British Academy, accessed January 3, 2018 . 
3. ^ Fellows: Professor April Mary Scott McMahon. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed January 3, 2018 . 
4. ^ Membership directory: April MS McMahon. Academia Europaea, accessed January 3, 2018 .