Michael John Kenstowicz is an American linguist specializing in phonetics and phonology and professor of linguistics at MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. He is known for writing "Phonology in generative grammar" a coursebook taught across the world in phonology courses.
Works
2011: A Note on Phonological Phrasing in South Kyungsang
2011: Vocale Incerta, Vocale Aperta A preliminary version of this paper was presented at the MIT Phonology Circle and the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Washington.
2010: Loanword Phonology and Enhancement. eds. Lectures on Universal Grammar and Individual Languages. Seoul International Conference on Linguistics, pp. 104–112.
2009: Reverse Engineering: Emphatic Consonants and the Adaptation of Vowels in French Loanwords into Moroccan Arabic.. Brill’s Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics 1. 41–74.
August 2009: On the Origin of Tonal Classes in Kinande Noun Stems. Studies in African Linguistics Volume 37, Number 2
June 2009. Mandarin Loanwords in Yanbian Korean II: Tones.. Language Research 45.1, 85-109.
December 2008. Mandarin Adaptations of Coda Nasals in English Loanwords.. To appear in Loan Phonology: Issues and Controversies ed. by Andrea Calabrese & Leo Wetzels, Benjamins. 2009.
2008. "Mandarin loanwords in Yanbian Korean 1: laryngeal features". Submitted to Phonological Studies 13, Linguistic Society of Japan.
September 2007. Paradigmatic Uniformity and Contrast: Korean Liquid Stems.. To appear in Phonological Studies 2008 vol. 11, Phonological Society of Japan.
January 2007. Contrasts, Mergers, and Acquisitions in Kyungsang Accent.. To appear in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
July 2006. Laryngeal features and tone in Kyungsang Korean: a phonetic study.. To appear in Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology.
May 2006. The adaptation of Japanese loanwords into Korean.. To appear in Studies in Loanword Phonology, edited by Feng-fan Hsieh and Michael Kenstowicz.
2005. The phonetics and phonology of Korean loanword adaptation. To appear in S-J. Rhee, ed. Proceedings of First European Conference on Korean Linguistics.
2005. Verbal tone in Buli: a morphosyntactic analysis. To appear in S. Kaji, ed. Cross-linguistic Study of Tonal Phenomena.
2004. Generative Phonology. To appear in Encyclopedia of language & Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Elsevier.
2004. Issues in loanword adaptation: a case study from Thai.. Submitted to Lingua
2004. Tone loans. Paper from 78th LSA and 33rd ACAL.
2003. Tone in Buli. Studies in African Linguistics 31, 55-96
2003. Salience and similarity in loanword adaptation: a case study from Fijian. To appear in Language Sciences
2002. Statistical generalizations in the distribution of stress in Italian and Spanish verbs.
1994. Two notes on Igbo vowels.
Kenstowicz, Michael & Charles Kisseberth. 1979. Generative phonology. San Diego: Academic Press.
2003. Salience and Similarity in Loanword Adaptation: a Case Study from Fijian.
2001. "Accentual Adaptation in North Kyungsang Korean", Ken Hale: A life in language, Michael Kenstowicz, MIT Press.
2001. "The role of perception in loanword phonology". To appear in Linguistique africaine.
2000. "Paradigmatic uniformity and contrast". To appear in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics vol. xx
2000. "Two notes on laryngeal licensing". To appear in Living on the Edge: Phonological Essays Commemorating the Radical Career of Jonathan Kaye, edited by Stefan Ploch and Geoff Williams.
1997. "Sonority Driven Stress"
1998. "Uniform Exponence: Exemplification and Extension"
1996. "Base-Identity and Uniform Exponence: Alternatives to Cyclicity"
1995. "The Lapse Constraint"
1994. "Sonority-Driven Stress"
1994. "Syllabification in Chuckchee: a Constraint-based Analysis"
1989. Tone and accent in Kizigua – a Bantu language. in P.M. Bertinetto & M. Loporcaro. Certamem phonologicum: papers from the 1987 Cortona Phonology Meeting, pp. 177–188. Torino: Rosenberg and Sellier
1997. "Base identity and uniform exponence: alternatives to cyclicity." In J. Durand & B. Laks, eds., Current Trends in Phonology: Models and Methods. Salford: University of Salford, 363-394
1997. "Focus and phrasing in Northern Kyungsang Korean." In P-M. Bertinetto, ed., Certamen Phonologicum III. Torino: Rosenberg & Sellier, 137-156, 1997. Also in MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 30, 25-47
1997. "Quality-sensitive stress." Rivista di Linguistica 9.1, 157-188
1997. "Uniform exponence: extension and exemplification." In V. Miglio & B. Moren, eds., Selected papers from the Hopkins Optimality Workshop 1997, University of Maryland Working papers in Linguistics 5, 139-54, Revised version to appear in Bolletino della Societa Linguistica Italiana.
