Sara Mackenzie
- Department Head
- Associate Professor
- B.A. York | M.A. Toronto | Ph.D. Toronto
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Contact info
- Office: SN3050B
- Telephone: (709) 864-8905
- Email: sjmackenzie@mun.ca
Research interests
My research interests include phonological representations, harmony systems, and the phonetics-phonology and morphology-phonology interfaces. Much of my work deals with theories of phonological representations and how such theories can be formalized in constraint-based models of phonology with a particular focus on theories of contrastive specifications and how these can be implemented in Optimality Theory grammars.
Selected publications
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2022. Restricted structure preservation in Stratal Optimality Theory. To appear in Linguistic Inquiry.
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2021. with Daiho Kitaoka. Moraic reversal and realisation: analysis of a Japanese language game. Phonology, 38(1), 41–79.
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2019. with Joe Argentino. Transformations in serial music and language games. Journal of New Music Research, 48(2), 159–179.
- 2018. with Erin Olson, Meghan Clayards, and Michael Wagner. North American /l/ both darkens and lightens depending on morphological constituency and segmental context. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 9(1), 13.
- 2017. with Paul De Decker. Tracking the phonological status of /l/ in Newfoundland English: experiments in articulation and acoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, 350.
- 2016. Consonant harmony in Nilotic: contrastive specifications and Stratal OT. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1(1):12, 1-38.
- 2015. with Paul De Decker and Rosanna Pierson. An acoustic and articulatory study of /l/ allophony in Newfoundland English. In: The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 Ed., Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow. ISBN 978-0-85261-941-4.
- 2013. Laryngeal cooccurrence restrictions: contrastive specifications and constraint interaction. Phonology 30:2, 297-345.
- 2012. Near-identity and laryngeal harmony. Proceedings from Phonology in the 21st Century: In Honour of Glyne Piggott, McGill Working Papers in Linguistics, 22.
- 2011. Contrast and the evaluation of similarity: Evidence from consonant harmony. Lingua 121: 1401-1423.
- 2004. with Elan Dresher. Contrast and phonological activity in the Nez Perce vowel system. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 29, 283-294.
- 2000. with Paul De Decker. Slept through the ice: A further look at lax vowel lowering in Canadian English. De Decker, P. and S. Mackenzie, co-authors. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, 18, 1-10.
Teaching
Courses previously taught at MUN:
- LING 1100 - Introduction to Linguistics
- LING 1104 - Introduction to Linguistic Analysis: Phonology
- LING 3104 - Phonetics
- LING 3201 - Phonological Theory
- LING 3500 - Historical Linguistics
- LING 4201 - Advanced Phonology
- LING 4700 - Experimental Phonetics
- LING 7000 - Analytic Issues in Linguistics