Newcastle University

Qualifications

PhD in Linguistics, University of Delaware
MA in Conference Interpretation, Monterey Institute of International Studies (California)

Previous Positions

University of Durham, 1993-2004 (Lecturer, Senior Lecturer)

Memberships

Linguistics Association of Great Britain
Linguistic Society of America
The Philological Society

Research Interests

Theoretical phonology, morphology and morphophonology, in particular concerning questions of prosodic structure. Further interests in bilingualism and language contact, especially with regard to grammatical influences of contact. Celtic, Germanic and Romance linguistics.

Current Work

My current work focuses on the phonology, morphology and morphophonological interaction in modern colloquial Welsh.

Postgraduate Supervision

I currently supervise a number of PhD students and have supervised PhD and MA (research) students working in theoretical phonology and morphology, cognition (with focus on linguistic relativism), and language learning. I particularly welcome research students wanting to focus on phonological structure, morphophonology, morphology and grammatical aspects of language contact.

Esteem Indicators

o LinguistList Advisory Panel member: www.linguistlist.org
o Manchester Phonology Meeting (mfm) Advisory Board member: www.englang.ed.ac.uk/mfm/mfm.html
o External Examiner, University of Sussex, 2008-
o External Examiner, University of Wolverhampton, 2002-2006

Undergraduate Teaching

SEL1006 - Introduction to phonetics and phonology
SEL2000 - Phonological theory
SEL3006 - Topics in phonological theory

Postgraduate Teaching

SEL8117 - Phonetics & phonology
SEL8154 - Issues in phonological theory I
SEL8205 - Issues in phonological theory II

• Hannahs SJ. Unity in diversity in Welsh: the avoidance of sonority sequencing violations. In: Carnie, A, ed. Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp.259-274.
• Hannahs S. Celtic Mutations. In: van Oostendorp, M., Ewen, C., Hume, B., Rice, K, ed. Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp.2807-2830.
• Davenport M, Hannahs SJ. Introducing Phonetics & Phonology. London: Hodder Education, 2010.
• Hannahs, S.J. Welsh svarabhakti: sonority sequencing and foot structure. Journal of Celtic Linguistics 2009, 13, 21-44.
• Hannahs SJ. Constraining Welsh vowel mutation. Journal of Linguistics 2007, 43(2), 341-363.
• Hannahs SJ. French phonology and L2 acquisition. In: Ayoun, D, ed. French Applied Linguistics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, pp. 50-74.
• Hannahs SJ. Welsh vowel mutation : an optimality analysis. Newcastle upon Tyne: School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, 2007. Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics 12 & 13.
• Hannahs SJ, Tallerman M. At the interface: Selection of the Welsh definite article. Linguistics 2006, 44(4), 781-816.
• Davenport M, Hannahs SJ. Introducing Phonetics & Phonology. London/New York: Hodder Arnold/OUP, 2005.
• Hannahs SJ. Malagasy infixing reduplication. Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 2004, 10, 45-59.
• Hannahs SJ. Morphophonology. In: Smelser, NJ: Baltes, PB, ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences : Volume 15. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2001, pp. 10053-10058.
• Hannahs SJ. OT and English inflectional allomorphy. Durham Working Papers in Linguistics 2001, 7, 39-48.
• Hannahs SJ, Davenport M, ed. Issues in Phonological Structure: Papers from the International Workshop on Phonological Structure, University of Durham, September 1994. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999.
• Davenport M, Hannahs SJ. Introducing Phonetics & Phonology. London/New York: Arnold/OUP, 1998.
• Young-Scholten M, Hannahs SJ. Current issues in the first and second language acquisition of phonology. In: Hannahs, SJ; Young-Scholten, M, ed. Focus on Phonological Acquistion. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997, pp. 1-16.
• Hannahs SJ, Young-Scholten M, ed. Focus on Phonological Acquisition. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997.
• Hannahs SJ, Stotko EM. The non-isomorphism of phonological and morphological structure: evidence from acquistion. In: Hannahs, SJ; Young-Scholten, M, ed. Focus on Phonological Acquisition. John Benjamins North America Inc.,US, 1997, pp. 165-180.
• Hannahs SJ. Phonological Structure and Soft Mutation in Welsh. In: Kleinhenz, U, ed. Interfaces in Phonology. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996, pp. 46-59.
• Hannahs SJ. Prosodic Structure and French Morphophonology. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1995.
• Hannahs SJ. The phonological word in French. Linguistics 1995, 33(6), 1125-1144.