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Personal Information:
Name: Betsy McCall (Elizabeth Julia McCall)
Home Address:
Home Phone: (412) 751-8058; (412) 512-7284 (cell
phone)
Facsimile: (440) 354-0553
Work Address: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics, 301 Thackeray
Hall,
Work Phone: (412) 624-7763
E-mail: betsymccall@comcast.net,
bem7@pitt.edu
Education:
In Progress: Doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh in mathematics.
Masters of Science degree in Management Information
Systems, Nova Southeastern University,
Masters of Science degree in Mathematics, Cleveland State University,
Masters of Arts degree in Linguistics, Indiana University,
Bachelor of Arts degree in Classical and Medieval
Studies, Cleveland State University,
Academic and Professional
Experience:
2003-2004 - Teaching assistant, Duquesne University, School of Leadership and Professional
Advancement,
2002-2004 - Teaching assistant,
2000 to 2002 - Graduate Assistant,
2000-2002 - guest lecturer on the topic of history
of science for courses instructed by Daniel-James Thornton, Cleveland State University. These were paid lectures (one per course per
term) for the Introduction to Western Civilization I (HIS 101), Fall of Rome
(HIS 340/540), and History of Rome (HIS 331) courses.
2000 - instructor (substitute, three weeks), third
semester Classical Greek
(GRK 350), Cleveland State
University. Regular instructor for
this course is Dr. Mike Baumer, Assistant Professor,
Department of Philosophy, missing during this period due to illness. This work was unpaid. For additional information, please contact
Dr. Baumer.
1998 to 1999 - Business Manager, Indiana University Linguistics Club
Publications.
1998 to 1999 - General Editor,
Professional Organizations:
Linguistic Society of America, member 1998 to
present.
Modern Language Association, member 1997 to
present.
Society of Physics Students,
member 1999 to present.
Mathematical Society of America, member 2000 to
present.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
member 2000 to present.
Association of Women in Mathematics, member
2000 to present.
Indiana University Linguistics Club,
member 1997 to 1999. Served as Secretary in
1998.
Served as Vice-President in
1999.
Voces Antiquae et Medievales, member
1994 to 1997.
Served as Treasurer in
1996. Served as Vice President in
1996. Served as President in 1997.
Graduate representative
from mathematics to the university computer committee 2002-03
Community Activities:
1992 - Press Secretary and Publications Officer, Jan Litterst Campaign for State Representative.
2000 to 2002 – pollworker/election day judge, Lake County, Ohio.
Publications and
Presentations:
McCall, Betsy 1998. "Restrictions on Stop-Stop Clusters in
Ancient Greek: Implications for Alignment" Presented at the 4th
Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, October 1998.
McCall, Betsy 1999a. "Luo Verb Morphology". Presented at the 30th Annual Conference on
African Linguistics,
McCall, Betsy 1999b. “Phonologically-Driven Morphosyntax: An OT
Account of Ancient Greek”. Presented at
the 5th Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology, October 1999.
McCall, Betsy & Kyoko
Nagao 1999. "Aspects of Markedness
in Japanese Mimetics". Presented
at the 52nd Annual
Nagao, Kyoko & Betsy
McCall 1999 "A Perception-Based Account of Mimetic Palatalization in
Japanese". Presented at the
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences satellite meeting, 'The Role of
Perception in Phonology',
McCall, Betsy 2000. "Metathesis,
Deletion, Dissimilation and Consonant Ordering in Proto-Greek" Presented at
the 11th
UCLA Indo-European Conference,
McCall, Betsy 2003. “Decision
Theoretic Models of Optimality”. Proceedings of the Workshop
of Variation within Optimality Theory,
Research Interests:
Mathematical applications to
the study of linguistics. These include:
statistical analysis, decision theory, game theory, dynamical systems,
numerical analysis and analysis of wave forms.
Linguistic analysis of
phonetics/phonology/morphology interactions.
Specifically, Japanese mimetic palatalization (represented in decision
theoretic terms, an acoustic prominence approach), consonant clusters,
particularly stop-stop clusters, and clusters restricted by place
features. I enjoy looking at dead
languages that are traditionally looked at in a historical context in a
synchronic context instead, particularly Ancient Greek. (I do not do historical linguistics.) I enjoy looking at metathesis (or apparent
metathesis), and phonology/morphology/syntax interactions. I am also interested in dynamical modeling of
dialect/language contact, cognitive and neurological applications.
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last
updated: 05 June 2003.