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Ioana Chitoran

Associate Professor of Linguistics
Associate Professor of French
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Departments and Programs

  • French and Italian
  • Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences

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Contact Information

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

Education

B.A. University of Bucharest; M.A. University of Bucharest; M.A. Michigan State University; Ph.D. Cornell University

Areas of Expertise

  • Phonology; phonetics, Romance languages; Caucasian languages

Selected Works

  • Professor Chitoran's work focuses on the interface between phonology (the cognitive representation of sound systems) and phonetics (the physical properties of sounds). Professor Chitoran studies in particular how variation in speech can give rise to stable linguistic categories (consonants, vowels, syllables) that make up the sound systems of the world’s languages. More recently she has been investigating this research question in languages of the Caucasus: Georgian (South Caucasian) and Lezgi (North East Caucasian).
  • Selected works are available at: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~linguist/faculty/chitoran.html

Current Projects

Articulatory timing and the dynamics of consonant clusters