Charles E. Cairns, Ph.D. (1969) in Linguistics, Columbia University, is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the City University of New York. He specializes in phonology; his latest volume, coedited with Eric Raimy, is Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology (MIT Press, 2009).Eric Raimy, Ph.D. (1999) in Linguistics, University of Delaware, is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison. He specializes in phonology; in addition to the MIT volume coedited with Charles Cairns, he wrote The Phonology and Morphology of Reduplication (Mouton de Gruyter 2000).

'As a whole, this volume is highly successful in many ways owing to the strong material that it presents from a cadre of successful scholars on a wide range of compelling and contemporary, yet challenging topics.'Christopher R. Green, LINGUISTLIST, October 2011

Charles E. Cairns, Ph.D. (1969) in Linguistics, Columbia University, is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the City University of New York. He specializes in phonology; his latest volume, coedited with Eric Raimy, is Contemporary Views on Architecture and Representations in Phonology (MIT Press, 2009).Eric Raimy, Ph.D. (1999) in Linguistics, University of Delaware, is Associate Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison. He specializes in phonology; in addition to the MIT volume coedited with Charles Cairns, he wrote The Phonology and Morphology of Reduplication (Mouton de Gruyter 2000).

'As a whole, this volume is highly successful in many ways owing to the strong material that it presents from a cadre of successful scholars on a wide range of compelling and contemporary, yet challenging topics.'Christopher R. Green, LINGUISTLIST, October 2011