Catherine O. Ringen
Catherine O. Ringen | |
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| Born | Catherine Oleson Ringen 1943 (age 81–82) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Thesis | Vowel Harmony: Theoretical Implications (1975) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Linguist |
| Sub-discipline | Phonology |
| Institutions | University of Iowa |
Catherine Ringen is an American phonologist and professor emerita of linguistics at the University of Iowa. She is best known for her research on vowel harmony, especially in Finno-Ugric languages, and on laryngeal contrasts in obstruents, in particular in Germanic languages.
Ringen earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University Bloomington in 1975, with a dissertation entitled "Vowel Harmony: Theoretical Implications." After her PhD she took up a position at the University of Iowa Linguistics Department, where she stayed until her retirement in 2015.
Ringen was co-editor of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics from 2001–2015. She served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of America from 2008–2010. She was a member of the scientific committee of the Manchester Phonology Meeting from 2004 to 2014.