Tucker Childs (1948 - 2021)
Former Professor, Applied Linguistics (Memorial Profile)
Disciplines
- African Languages and Societies
- Language Description and Documentation
- Phonetics and Phonology
Research Interests
- Prosody (especially (African) tone), Expressive language and non-core grammar, Field methods and methodology in general, Language contact, Pidgins and creoles, Language variation and change, Dialectology, African languages (especially endangered ones)