Florian Lionnet

Florian Lionnet

Position
Associate Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University

Florian Lionnet

Position
Associate Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University
About
Bio/Description

Florian Lionnet [[email protected]] is an Associate Professor in the Program in Linguistics at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2016 with his dissertation "Subphonemic Teamwork: A Typology and Theory of Cumulative Coarticulatory Effects in Phonology." His research interests center on phonological theory, especially tone, the languages of Chad, New Caledonia, and the Kalahari Basin, where he has been conducting extensive fieldwork, as well as on typological, areal, and historical linguistics. He is the recipient of several grants, the most recent of which is a National Science Foundation DLI-DEL grant for the Linguistic and Anthropological Documentation of Kulaale, an Endangered Language of Chad.