Wolfgang U. Dressler

Wolfgang U. Dressler
Born (1939-12-22) 22 December 1939
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Vienna

Wolfgang U. Dressler (born 22 December 1939) is an Austrian professor of linguistics at the University of Vienna. Dressler is a polyglot and scholar who has contributed to various fields of linguistics, especially phonology, morphology, text linguistics, clinical linguistics and child language development. He is an important representative of the 'naturalness theory'.