Name : Mehmet S. Yavas CURRICULUM VITAE Address: Florida International University Linguistics Program University Park Campus Miami, FL 33199 Phone : (305) 348-2992 Fax : (305) 348-3878 e-mail : YAVASM@FIU.EDU EDUCATION 1980 Ph.D. Linguistics Univ. of Kansas, USA. 1978 M.Phil. Linguistics Univ. of Kansas, USA. 1974 Post-Grad.Dip. Applied Ling. Univ. of N.Wales, UK. 1970 B.A. English Ataturk Univ., Turkey TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1999- Professor of Linguistics. Department of English, Florida International University, Miami, Fl. 1991-99 Associate Professor of Linguistics. Department of English, Florida International University, Miami, Fl. 1988-90 Visiting Associate Professor. Linguistics Program, Department of (Spr.only) English, Florida international University, Miami, Fl. 1985-90 Associate Professor of Linguistics, Graduate Program in Linguistics, Catholic University (PUCRS). Porto Alegre, Brazil. 1980-85 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Graduate Program in Linguistics, Catholic University (PUCRS). Porto Alegre, Brazil. 1976-80 Assistant Instructor of Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY 2008- Editorial consultant: Internat. Journal of Speech and Language Pathology 2007 Consulting reviewer to Canadian National Research Council. 2007 Consulting reviewer to National Science Foundation. 2007 External reviewer to the Tenure and Promotion process for The Department of Communication Disorders at Indiana University. 2006- Editorial consultant Learning and Instruction. 2003-06 Editorial board member, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 1
2002- Editorial consultant: American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology 2002 Consulting reviewer to Thomson Learning. 2001- Editorial consultant: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 2000 Editorial consultant: Language and Speech. 1999- Editorial Consultant, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 1999 ASHA Annual Convention Program Committee Member. 1999 Editorial consultant: The International Journal of Bilingualism. 1997 Editorial consultant: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 1996 Consulting reviewer to Blackwell publishers. 1995-96 Consulting reviewer to Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1995-98 Director of the Linguistics Program. Florida International Univ., Miami,FL. 1995 ASHA Annual Convention Program Committee Member. 1993- Editorial consultant: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 1992- Editorial consultant: Journal of Speech and Hearing Research. 1988-90 Coordinator of Child Language Research Center, Catholic Univ., Brazil. 1989 Coordinator of the 1 st National Meeting on Child Language, P.Alegre, Brazil. 1986-87 Visiting Researcher, School of Speech Pathology, Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, (Currently, DeMonfort University) U.K 1984-90 Coordinator of Graduate Program in Linguistics, Catholic University, Brazil. 1986-90 Linguistics Consultant to the Speech Pathology Department, Colegio Porto Alegre, Brazil. COURSES TAUGHT Introduction to Linguistics Phonetics Applied Phonetics Phonology I Phonology II Language Contact Contrastive Linguistics Seminar in Phonological Universals Clinical Phonology Historical and Comparative Linguistics Phonological Development and Disorders First and Second Language Phonology Structure of a Non-Indo-European Language CURRENT RESEARCH * VOT Patterns in bilingual (Spanish-English) phonological development. * Phonological development and disorders in Spanish-English bilingual children * Acquisition of #sc onsets in children with phonological disorders: a crosslinguistic study 2
PUBLICATIONS BOOKS 2010 Language Disorders in Turkish-speaking Children in Monolingual and Multilingual Contexts. Multilingual Matters. (co-edited w/ S. Topbas) 2006 Applied English Phonology. Blackwell. (Revised 2 nd Edition will appear in 2010) 1998 Phonology; Development and Disorders. San Diego, CA; Singular Publishing Group. 1994 First and Second Language Phonology. San Diego, CA; Singular Publishing Group. 1991 Phonological Disorders in Children: theory, research and practice. London; Routledge. 1990 Avaliaçao Fonologica da Criança. PortoAlegre, Brazil;Artes e Medicas (with C. Hernandorena & R. Lamprecht as 2 nd and 3 rd authors). 1984 Problemas de Fonologia. Porto Alegre, Brazil; Livraria Academica. Articles (refereed) 2010 Sonority and the acquisition of /s/ clusters in children with phonological Disorders, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 24:3, 169-176. 2010 Acquisition of #sc onsets in English speaking children with phonological disorders, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 24:3, 177-187. 2010 Acquisition of #sc onsets in Spanish-English bilingual children with phonological disorders, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 24:3, 188-198. 2008 Sonority and cross-linguistic acquisition of #sc clusters (A. Ben-David, E. Gerrits, K. Kristoffersen, and H. Simonsen, as 2 nd, 3 rd, 4 th, 5 th authors) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 22, 421-441. 2007 Sonority and the acquisition of #sc clusters, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 4:3, 159-168. 2007 Acquisition of #sc clusters in English-speaking children, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 4:3, 169-181 (C.Core, 2 nd author) 3
2007 Acquisition of #sc clusters in Spanish-English bilingual children,journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 4:3, 182-193, (J.Barlow, 2 nd author) 2007 Acquisition of #sc clusters in Haitian Creole-English bilingual children, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 4:3, 194-204. (C. Beaubrun, 2 nd author). 2006 The effects of place of articulation and the vowel height in the acquisition of English long lag stops by Spanish speakers (R. Wildermuth, 2 nd author). IRAL 44:3, 251-263. 2005 Patterns of /s/-clusters in Spanish-English bilinguals (M. Someillan, 2 nd author). Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders. 3:1. 2004 Acquisition of liquid consonants: frequency versus saliency, (S.Topbaş, 2 nd author), Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 2:2,110-123. 2003 The role of sonority in developing phonologies, Journal of Multilingual Communication Disorders 1:2, 79-98. 2002 VOT Patterns in Bilingual Phonological Development, in Windsor, F., L.Kelly & N. Hewlett (Eds.) Themes in Clinical Linguistics. Lawrence Erlbaum. 241-251. 2001 Phonemic awareness of coda consonants and sonority in bilingual Children, Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 15:1, 35-39. 1999 "Phoneme awareness in children: a function of sonority" Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 28:3, 245-260 (L. Gogate, 2 nd author) 1998 Speech sound differences and disorders in first and second language acquisition: theoretical issues and clinical applications" American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology 7, 43-54 (B. Goldstein, 2 nd author). 1997 "Feature enhancement and phonological acquisition", Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 11:2, 153-172. 1997 "The effects of vowel height and place of articulation in interlanguage final stop devoicing" International Review of Applied Linguistics 35:2, 115-125. 1995 Phonological selectivity in the first fifty words of a bilingual child", Language and Speech 38:2. 189-202. 4
1994 "Extreme regularity in phonological disorders Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 8:2, 127-139. 1991 "Systematic sound preference in phonological disorders", Journal of Communication Disorders 24:2, 79-87. (C. Hernandorena, 2 nd author). 1988 "Phonological processes and intelligibility in disordered phonology" (R.Lamprecht, 2 nd author) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 2:4, 329-345. 1988 Developing a phonological system:a case study"(with P.Grunwell and J.Russell) Child Language Teaching and Therapy 4:2, 142-153. 1988 Phonotactic restrictions in disordered phonology"(with P.Grunwell) Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics 2:1, 1-16. 1983 "Natural Phonology and borrowing assimilations", Linguistics20,123-132. 1982 "On foreign sound substitution", ITL:Review of Applied Linguistics 57, 3-17. 1981 "Turkish vowel and consonant harmony", Glossa 14: 189-211. 1981 "Some pilot experiments on Turkish vowel harmony".papers in Linguistics 13:3, 543-562. Articles (non-refereed) 2009 Factors influencing the VOT of English long lag stops in interlanguage phonology, Recent Research in Second Language Phonetics/Phonology: perception and production. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007 Multilingual speech acquisition, in McLeod (ed.) Speech Acquisition: International Perspectives. pp. 96-110. Thomson Delmar Learning. 2007 Acquisition of Portuguese Phonology, in McLeod (ed.) Speech Acquisition: International Perspectives. pp. 505-515. Thomson Delmar Learning. (H. Mota, 2 nd author) 2006 Spanish/English Bilingual Children: A cross-linguistics perspective on phonological development and disorders, (B. Goldstein, 2 nd author) in Dodd, B. & Z. Hua (Eds.) Phonological Development and Disorders A Cross-linguistics perspective. pp. 265-285. Multilingual Matters. 5
2006 Acquisition of Turkish phonology (with S. Topbaş) in Dodd, B. & Z. Hua (Eds.) Phonological Development and Disorders: A Cross-linguistic Perspective. pp. 223-261. Multilingual Matters. 2003 Speech issues in Bilingualism, MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders, The MIT Press. 2000 Review of Language Acquisition across North America, Taylor,O.L., & L.B.Leonard (Eds.) The International Journal of Bilingualism. 4:3, 423-426. 1999 Feature geometry, underspecification and child substitutions, in Maasen, B. & P. Groenen (Eds.) Pathologies of Speech and Language London; Whurr Publishers Ltd. (C. Core, 2 nd author) 1996 "Differences in voice onset time in early and later Spanish-English bilinguals", in Roca, A. & Jensen J.B. (Eds) Spanish in Contact Sommerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. 131-141. 1994 Final stop devoicing in interlanguage" in M. Yavas (ed.) First and Second Language Phonology Singular Publishing Group, Inc. 1989 "Efeitos nao-fonologicos nas avaliacoes fonologicas", Proceedings of the 1st South American Speech Pathology Meeting, Curitiba,Brazil, 13-24. 1989 "Padroes na aquisicao da fonologia do portugues" Letras de Hoje 23:3, 7-30. Porto Alegre, Brazil. 1986 "Desvios fonologicos na crianca:implicacoes da linguistica", Letras de Hoje 62. 1985 Implicacoes mutuas entre fonologia e desordens da fala", Proceedings of the 4th Brazilian Linguistics Association Meeting, Curitiba, Brazil. 1985 "Review of Life with two Languages", Letras de Hoje 18:4, 107-111. 1984 "Phonological processes in phonological deviance"proceedings of the 1st National Meeting on Phonetics and Phonology, Florianopolis,Brazil. 75-86. 1983 "Review of A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English", Letras de Hoje 54. 1981-Pres. **************************************** 76 CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES & COLLOQUIA 6
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