Ioana Chitoran

Associate Professor
308 Reed Hall
(603) 646-3403
Fax: (603) 646-9288
E-mail: ioana.chitoran@dartmouth.edu

Chair, Linguistics and Cognitive Science
Department of French and Italian
Reed Hall, HB 6220
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Education

• Ph.D. (Linguistics) Cornell University, 1997

Research Interests

• Phonology, Phonetics
• Phonology-phonetics interface, phonology-morphology interface
• Romance languages
• Caucasian languages

Related Events

• Workshop for young linguists - Caucasian Languages
  Lyon, April 8 and 9, 2009
  Organizers: Ioana Chitoran and Denis Creissels
• Workshop Program
  The goal of this workshop is to bring together current and recent linguistics Ph.D. candidates working on all aspects of Caucasian Languages, to encourage an exchange of ideas and future collaborations among them.
  Sponsored by the Collegium de Lyon and the Laboratoire "Dynamique du Langage", Université Lumière Lyon 2
• Symposium, "Sounds and Tastes of the Caucasus: Music, Language, and Food in Georgia." October 25, 2007. Co-sponsored by the Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program
• Symposium Photo
• American Research Institute of the South Caucasus

Courses

• Phonology
• Experimental Phonetics
• Historical Linguistics
• Introductory Linguistics
• First-year Seminar
• Senior Seminar
• Survival of the Fittest in the South Caucasus: Language and Politics (pdf)
  Spring 2010: LING 11/COCO 9
• Clusters, Closures, and Releases - Sound Systems of Caucasian Languages (pdf)
  Winter 2011: LING 50

Selected Publications

• Chitoran, I and K. Iskarous (2008)
  • Acoustic evidence for high vowel devoicing in Lezgi
    In Sock, Fuchs, Laprie (eds.)
    Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production
    Strasbourg, France, 8-12 December 2008. 93-96
    Paper (pdf)
• Chitoran, I and J. I. Hualde (2007)
  • From hiatus to diphthong: The evolution of vowel sequences in Romance
    Phonology 24:1, 37-75
    Paper (pdf)
    Statistical Results (pdf)
• Chitoran, I. and A. Babaliyeva (2007)
  • An Acoustic Description of High Vowel Syncope in Lezgian
    Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2007. 2153-2156
    Paper (pdf)
• Chitoran, I. (2003)
  • Gestural Timing and the Glide Percept in Romanian
    Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
    Barcelona, 2003. 3013-3016
    Abstract (pdf)
• Hualde, J.I. and I. Chitoran (2003)
  • Explaining the Distribution of Hiatus in Spanish and Romanian
    Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, 2003. 1683-1686
    Abstract (pdf)
• Chitoran, I. (2002)
  • A perception-production study of Romanian diphthongs and glide-vowel sequences.
    Journal of the International Phonetic Association 32:2. 203-222
    Paper (pdf)
• Chitoran, I. (2002)
  • The Phonology and Morphology of Romanian Diphthongization
    Probus 14:2. 205-246
    Abstract (pdf)
• Chitoran, I., L. Goldstein, and D. Byrd (2002)
  • Gestural Overlap and Recoverability: Articulatory Evidence from Georgian
    In C. Gussenhoven and N. Warner (eds.) Laboratory Phonology 7. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 419-447
    Paper (pdf)
• Chitoran, I. (2001)
  • The Phonology of Romanian: A Constraint-Based Approach
    Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter
• Chitoran, I. (1999)
  • Accounting for Sonority Violations: The Case of Georgian Consonant Sequencing
    Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, August 1999. 101-104
• Chitoran, I. (1998)
  • Georgian harmonic clusters: Phonetic cues to phonological representation.
    Phonology 15:2. 121-141