Douglas Pulleyblank
Position: Professor
Office Location: Pulleyblank
Phone: 604.822.2063
Email: douglas.pulleyblank@ubc.ca
Website: http://ling75.arts.ubc.ca/pblk

Mailing Address:
Totem Field Studios
UBC Department of Linguistics
2613 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
V6T 1Z4

Doug's Blog

Doug's Blog

Educational Background

1977, B.A., University of Ibadan
1983, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Interests

My primary research area is phonological theory, with interests in overlapping areas of phonetics, morphology, syntax and learnability. The focus of my work has been featural properties, for example, tone and vowel harmony. I have concentrated on African languages, particularly languages of Nigeria, and have a long-standing research interest in Yoruba.

Courses Recently Taught

Graduate
LING 510: Phonological Theory and Analysis

Undergraduate
LING 200: Linguistic Theory and Analysis I
LING 311: Studies in Phonology

Recent Publications

Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2004. A note on tonal markedness in Yoruba. Phonology 21:3, 409-425.

Gick, Bryan, Douglas Pulleyblank, Fiona Campbell & Ngessimo Mutaka. 2006. Low vowels and transparency in Kinande vowel harmony. Phonology 23:1, 1-20.

Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2006. Minimizing UG: Constraints upon Constraints. In Donald Baumer, David Montero, & Michael Scanlon, eds., Proceedings of the 25th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 15-39. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #1430.

Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2006. Mending your Ps & Qs. In Jacqueline Bunting, Sapna Desai, Robert Peachey, Christopher Straughn, Zuzana Tomková, eds., CLS 42: The Main Session: Proceedings from the Main Session of the Forty-second Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, volume 42-1, 267-286. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.

Archangeli, Diana & Douglas Pulleyblank. 2007. Harmony. In Paul de Lacy, ed., The Cambridge Handbook of Phonology, 353-378. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2008. Yoruba vowel patterns: asymmetries through phonological competition. In Augustin Simo Bobda, ed., Explorations into Language Use in Africa, 125-157. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Kim, Eun-Sook & Douglas Pulleyblank. 2009. Glottalization and lenition in Nuu-chah-nulth. Linguistic Inquiry 40:4, 567-617.

Hudu, Fusheini, Amanda Miller and Douglas Pulleyblank. 2009. Ultrasound imaging and theories of tongue root phenomena in African languages. In P. K. Austin, O. Bond, M. Charette, D. Nathan & P. Sells, eds., Proceedings of Conference on Language Documentation & Linguistics Theory 2, 153 - 163. London: SOAS.

Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2009. Patterns of reduplication in Yoruba. In Kristin Hanson & Sharon Inkelas, eds., The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky, 311-357. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Archangeli, Diana, K.P. Mohanan, & Douglas Pulleyblank. 2009. The emergence of Optimality Theory. In Linda Uyechi & Lian Hee Wee, eds., Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language & Life, 143-157. CSLI.