Dr. Manjari Ohala received an M.A. in Sanskrit from the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India. Subsequently, she received her Ph.D. from UCLA where she specialized in phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, Indo-Aryan linguistics, and the psycholinguistics of phonology. Dr. Ohala became a member of SJSU's faculty in 1974. She is the author of Aspects of Hindi Phonology (1983, Motilal Banarsidass) and Sound Patterns of Hindi (2014, LinCom Europa). Additionally, she has co-edited volumes, delivered papers at numerous national/international conferences and published a number of articles in journals such as Language, Lingua, and Phonetica. She speaks Hindi and Punjabi as well as English.