Ioana Chitoran

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

(603) 646-3403
Email: ioana.chitoran@dartmouth.edu
Office: 308 Reed Hall

Associate Professor, Ph.D. (Linguistics) Cornell University, 1997

Research interests

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

Courses taught regularly

• Phonology
• Historical Linguistics
• Introductory Linguistics
• First-year seminar
• Senior seminar

Selected Publications

• Chitoran, I and J. I. Hualde (2007)
  • From hiatus to diphthong: The evolution of vowel sequences in Romance
    Phonology 24:1, 37-75
    Paper
    Statistical Results (32K PDF File)
• 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
    
• 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 (6K PDF File)
• 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 (6K PDF File)
• 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
• Chitoran, I. (2002)
  • The Phonology and Morphology of Romanian Diphthongization
    Probus 14:2. 205-246
    Abstract (6K PDF File)
• 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
• 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