Elisabeth O. Selkirk is a theoretical linguist and professor emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She specializes in phonological theory and the syntax-phonology interface.
Honors and distinctions
She was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2012. A volume of essays in her honor examining the phonology of many languages was published in 2011. ==Selected publications==
Selected publications
• Selkirk, E. (2011). The Syntax-Phonology Interface. In J. Goldsmith, J. Riggle, and A. Yu, eds., The Handbook of Phonological Theory, 2nd edition, 435–484. Oxford: Blackwell. • Selkirk, E. (2003). The Prosodic Structure of Function Words. In J. McCarthy, ed. Optimality Theory in Phonology: A Reader, Blackwell Publishing, 2003. • Selkirk, E. (2003). Sentence phonology. In William Frawley and William Bright, The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, 2nd edition. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. • Selkirk, E. (2000). The interaction of constraints on prosodic phrasing. In M. Horne, ed., Prosody: Theory and Experiments, 231–261. Kluwer. • Selkirk, E. (1982). The Syntax of Words. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. ==References==