Toni Cook Curriculum Vitae February 2016

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1 Toni Cook Curriculum Vitae February 2016 University of Vermont Department of Romance Languages & Linguistics 517 Waterman Building Burlington, VT (primary) cell: Citizenship: United States EMPLOYMENT August 2015 present June 2013 May 2015 Lecturer in Linguistics, University of Vermont. Postdoctoral fellow, Linguistics (Zulu) University of KwaZulu- Natal, Howard College. Project with Professor Jochen Zeller investigating the dialectal differences between rural and urban varieties of Zulu. EDUCATION Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation Morphological and Phonological Structure in Zulu Reduplication Summer 2011 University of Zululand, Ongoye Foreign Language Area Studies, Intensive Zulu Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Visiting Student, Linguistics University of California, Berkeley Summer 2008 University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Fulbright Hayes Group Project Abroad, Zulu Summer 2007 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Stanford University Summer 2005 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.A., cum laude, French Amherst College Spring 2004 Vassar-Wesleyan Program in Paris Université de Paris, IV & VII RESEARCH INTERESTS The morphology-phonology interface in Nguni (Southern Bantu) Dialectal variation in Zulu Derivational approaches to phonological and morphological interaction Tonal variation and the realization of tonal domains in Zulu Non-canonical divisions between prestige and non-prestige dialects PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS 2014 Adjectival reduplication in Zulu Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 32:

2 accepted (under review) The inclusion of prefixal material in Zulu reduplication Studies in African Linguistics A change in progress in Urban Zulu WORKING PAPERS 2012 Explaining the final vowel mismatch in Nguni reduplication in Schwayder, ed. Proceedings of the 36 th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquim. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 19.1, Philadelphia, PA The status of the Macrostem in reduplication in Ndebele and Zulu in Burns et al., eds. Proceedings of BLS 37. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Vol. 37, Berkeley, CA. CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES (forthcoming) Prosodic evidence for syntactic phrasing in Zulu, with Jochen Zeller and Sabine Zerbian. To be included in a volume on the conjoint-disjoint alternation in Bantu, ed., van der Wal and Hyman. To appear in the Mouton Series Trends in Linguistic Studies and Monographs (TiLSM) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2016 Tonal constituency in Durban Zulu. Paper to be presented at the 47th Annual Conference in African Linguistics (ACAL), Berkeley, California. March 23-26, Zulu reduplication and the structure of causatives. Paper presented at the 2014 Linguistics Society of America annual meeting (LSA). Minneapolis, Minnesota. January 5, Non-deletion of penultimate vowels and reduplication in Zulu. Paper presented at Bantu5 conference, Paris, France. June 13, How diachronic processes are reflected in Zulu reduplication. Paper presented at the 43 rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), New Orleans, Lousiana. March 17, Allomorphy effects in Zulu reduplication. Paper presented at the 2012 Linguistics Society of America annual meeting (LSA), Portland, Oregon. January 8, Adjectival and verbal reduplication in Zulu. Paper presented at the 42 nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL), College Park, Maryland. June 10, Two types of focus in Zulu. Paper presented at B4ntu conference, Berlin, Germany. April 9, Explaining the final vowel mismatch in Nguni reduplication. Paper presented at the 35 th annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium (PLC), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March 19,

3 2011 The status of the Macrostem in reduplication in Ndebele and Zulu. Paper presented at Berkeley Linguistics Society 37 th annual meeting (BLS), Berkeley, California. February 13, Abo word and syllable structure (with Clare Sandy). Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology Forum, UC-Berkeley. November 15, INVITED TALKS 2015 Zulu Dialects, 40 Years Later (with Nothando Mzulwini, Thandeka Maphumulo, and Andrew Bevis). Presented at University ofkwazulu-natal, Howard College. April 13, Identifying a new sociolinguistic variable: The rural-urban divide in Zululand and the townships of Durban, South Africa. Presented in the Linguistics Colloquium Series at Middlebury College. October 15, TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Vermont Spring 2016 Introduction to Phonology & Morphology (LING 169) Writing Systems (LING 096) Introduction to Historical Linguistics (LING 196) Fall 2015 Introduction to Phonetics (LING 165) Structure of the English Language (LING 081) Contact Languages & the Slave Trade (LING 195) University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban March-April 2015 Instructor, Understanding Language (LING 101) July-August 2014 Instructor, Introduction to Language Studies (LING 102) Middlebury College January 2015 Instructor, Contact Languages & the Slave Trade (LNGT 1002) (Winter Term Course) University of Pennsylvania Fall 2012 Instructor, Introduction to Linguistics (LING 001) Spring 2013, 2012, Grader, African Language & Culture (AFST 225) 2011, 2010 Instructor: Dr. Audrey Mbeje Fall, Spring 2008 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING 102), Instructor: Prof. Gillian Sankoff Fall 2007 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics (LING 001) Instructor: Prof. Mark Liberman LANGUAGE TEACHING WORK Organized a project consisting of 10 short video clips for beginner-intermediate Zulu learners, with native Zulu speakers participating as actors. Wrote dialogues, and added and edited subtitles for the videos (imovie). 3

4 2012 Guest Lecturer, Workshop on agglutinative morphology. Presentation for Intermediate Zulu, Instructor Audrey Mbeje, University of Pennsylvania, November 7, Fall 2005-Spring 06 English Assistant, Lycée La Saulaie, St. Marcellin, France. GUEST LECTURES 2015 The linguistic ecology of South Africa. Presented in SOAN 395, instructor Marybeth Nevins. Middlebury College, February 25, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND GRANTS 2015 Fieldwork Grant from University of KwaZulu-Natal Foreign Language Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship 2011 Foreign Language Area Studies Summer Fellowship 2011 Dean s Summer Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania 2008 Fulbright-Hays Summer Group Project Abroad 2007 Presidential Prize Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania TRAVEL GRANTS 2016 Travel Grant, University of Vermont Department of Romance Languages & Linguistics Travel Grants from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA) 3 Travel Grants from the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015 Reviewer, Mouton degruyter volume on conjoint-disjoint alternation in Bantu Reviewer, special issue South African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 2010 present Reviewer, Penn Linguistics Colloquium Organizing Committee, 31 st, 32 nd, 33 rd Penn Linguistics Colloquia 2007 Editor (w/ Keelan Evanini) Penn Working Papers in Linguistics Vol Organizing Committee, NWAV 36 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), University of Pennsylvania 2006 present Member, Linguistic Society of America LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY English Native French Highly proficient (speaking, reading, writing) 4

5 Zulu German Abo, Itawes REFERENCES Prof. Jochen Zeller Prof. David Embick Prof. Larry Hyman Prof. Gillian Sankoff Dr. Nonhlanhla Mbeje Highly proficient (speaking, reading, writing) Elementary studies Elicitation (postdoc advisor) (dissertation chair) (committee member) (teaching mentor) (Zulu instructor) 5