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Dr Michael Dobrovolsky | |
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| Died | October 22, 2012 |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Occupation | Linguist |
| Children | Sasha Dobrovolsky
Kiril Dobrovolsky Mitya Dobrovolsky |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Thesis | "On intonation: functional, emotive, phonological." |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | Contemporary Linguistics: An introduction |
Education
[edit]Michael completed his doctorate in linguistics at the University of Toronto in 1980. His thesis, supervised by Pierre Leon, was entitled "On intonation: functional, emotive, phonological."[1]
Teaching
[edit]Michael Dobrovolsky was a linguistics professor at University of Calgary Werklund School Of Education located in Calgary, Alberta.[2]
Academic work
[edit]In his own research, Michael focused on phonetics (both physiological and Acoustic phonetics) and its relation to phonology, especially in the area of stress and accent. His language focus in the latter area was on Turkic, particularly Turkish and Chuvash. He conducted valuable fieldwork on these languages in Turkey and Russia. Some of this important unpublished work may become publicly available in time, including his translation of Nikolai Ashmarin's Chuvash language materials (1897-98). Michael also created the enduring University of Calgary Phonetic Inventory. "[3]
Personal Life
[edit]Michael had training as a musician and musicologist from his collegiate days, which helped with his linguistic research. Michael was a diligent reader of The New Yorker, and a fan of Major League Baseball. Michael died of cancer on October 22, 2012.[4]
Acccolades
[edit]Michael had an award dedicated to him, which was inaugurated on the occasion of his retirement in 2007. The Michael Dobrovolsky Undergraduate Linguistics award is awarded at The University of Calgary."[5][6]
Bibliography
[edit]Books
[edit]Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: an introduction First Edition[7]
Contemporary Linguistics: an introduction Adapted Edition[8] - Adapted from the Canadian edition, this new European edition was fully adapted and updated by Francis Katamba with appropriate UK and international phonetic and sociolinguistic material. All the core topics of linguistics are covered, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, the genetic and typological classification of the languages of the world, and historical linguistics. Interdisciplinary areas discussed include language and the brain, psycholinguistics - the study of language processing, first and second language acquisition, language in social contexts and the fast-growing area of computational linguistics.[9]
Contemporary Linguistics: an introduction Third Edition Adaptation of: Contemporary linguistics analysis.[10]
Articles
[edit]Intonation in English, French and German: Perception and Production - This article reports the results of three experiments which investigated the role of intonation in foreign accent. It was found that adult French, English and German speakers differ in the slopes (fundamental frequency divided by time) of their continuative intonation. Monolingual English and French children also differ in their continuative intonational slopes. Students who are native English speakers but attend French immersion schools, acquire appropriate French continuative intonation by age 10, but at age 16 they typically use English intonation when they speak French. A perception experiment showed that no language group chose intonation patterns with slopes based on native production data to be more native-like than those with slopes based on non-native data. Some remarks are made about language acquisition in the immersion setting and about convergence in intonational function. [11]
References
[edit]- ^ Fulop, Sean; Flynn, Darin; Archibald, John; McGinnis, Martha. "Obituary". Linguist List. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Rate my teacher". Rate My Teacher. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
- ^ Fulop, Sean; Flynn, Darin; Archibald, John; McGinnis, Martha. "Obituary". Linguist List. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Fulop, Sean; Flynn, Darin; Archibald, John; McGinnis, Martha. "Obituary". Linguist List. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Fulop, Sean; Flynn, Darin; Archibald, John; McGinnis, Martha. "Obituary". Linguist List. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Michael Dobrovolsky Award". University of Calgary. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ Dobrovolsky, Michael; O'Grady, William (1987). Contemporary Linguistic Analysis (first ed.). Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd. p. 486. ISBN 0773046836. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ O'Grady, William; Dobrovolsky, Michael; Katamba, Francis (18 April 1997). Contemporary linguistics : an introduction (Adapted ed.). Longman. p. 776. ISBN 9780582246911.
- ^ "Contemporary Linguistics - An introduction". Pearson Education. Pearson. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ O'Grady, William; Aronoff, Mark; Dobrovolsky, Michael (1997). Contemporary linguistics : an introduction (3rd ed.). St. Martin's Press. p. 710. ISBN 0312137494. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ^ Dobrovolsky, Michael; Grover, Cynthia; Jamieson, Donald (July 1, 1987). "Intonation in English, French and German: Perception and Production". 30 (3): 277–295. doi:10.1177/002383098703000307. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
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