Diana Archangeli

Diana B. Archangeli is an American linguist and Professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona.
She earned her M.A. at the University of Texas-Austin in 1981, and her PhD from MIT in 1984, with a dissertation entitled, "Underspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology". Her dissertation was selected for publication in Garland's Outstanding Dissertation series.
She taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a year before joining the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1985. She also spent a few years teaching at the University of Hong Kong.
She is known for a number of widely cited works on phonetics and phonology, often in collaboration with Douglas Pulleyblank, within the frameworks of Grounded Phonology, Emergent Phonology and underspecification.

Selected publications

Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 1994. Grounded Phonology. MIT PressOptimality Theory: An Overview, edited with D. T. Langendoen, University of Arizona, 1997, Blackwells Publishing, OxfordUnderspecification in Yawelmani Phonology and Morphology, 1988, Garland Publishing, New York
Archangeli, Diana & Pulleyblank, Douglas. 2022. Emergent phonology.. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5721159