Florian Lionnet (Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 2016) joined Princeton as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Spring of 2017. His research focuses on sound systems (phonetics/phonology), typology, areal and historical linguistics, as well as language documentation and description, with a specific focus on African and Oceanic languages. He is currently involved in research on understudied and endangered languages in southern Chad and in New Caledonia, which involves yearly field trips.
He has published on a range of topics, including tone and its representation, downstep, prosodic structure, the phonetics/phonology interface, cumulative effects and gradience in phonology, areal phonology. Read more about Dr. Lionnet’s work.
