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Megan Crowhurst

Megan Crowhurst is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Megan Crowhurst rather than just read about it. In short: Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Career Crowhurst earned her BA in linguistics at the University of British Columbia (1985) and the MA and PhD at the University of Arizona (1989 and 1991).

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Reference excerpt

Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.

Career Crowhurst earned her BA in linguistics at the University of British Columbia (1985) and the MA and PhD at the University of Arizona (1989 and 1991). She has held academic positions at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. She works in the area of phonology, researching aspects of prosody, especially prosodic morphology, phonological stress, and the perception of rhythm. Often focusing on documenting these aspects within endangered languages, she has conducted fieldwork with speakers of Tupi-Guarani languages in Bolivia and speakers of Zapotec in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Honors and distinctions Crowhurst was a member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) task force that created the Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA) to provide a system to offer mentoring opportunities for female linguists. She also served on the LSA committee, Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, chairing the committee in 2001. Crowhurst has served as the Senior Associate Editor (2016-2017) and Co-editor (2017-2020) of the journal Language. She is a co-founder of the LSA journal Phonological Data and Analysis. Crowhurst was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in January 2021.

Selected publications Megan J. Crowhurst. 2019. The Iambic/Trochaic Law: Nature or Nurture? Language and Linguistic Compass. doi:10.1111/lnc3.12360Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The influence of varying vowel phonation and duration on rhythmic grouping preferences among Spanish and English speakers. J. Phonetics 66 (Jan.), 82–99. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2017.09.001Megan J. Crowhurst. 2018. The joint influence of vowel duration and creak on the perception of internal phrase boundaries. J. Acoustical Society of America 143(3), EL147-153. doi:10.1121/1.5025325Megan Crowhurst. 2016. Iambic-Trochaic law effects among native speakers of Spanish and English. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology 7(1), 12. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.42Megan Crowhurst and Sara Trechter. 2014. Vowel-rhotic metathesis in Guarayu. International Journal of American Linguistics 80, 127–173. https://doi.org/10.1086/675421Megan Jane Crowhurst and Lev D. Michael. 2005. Iterative footing and prominence-driven stress in Nanti (Kampa). Language 81(1), 47-95. https://doi.org10.1353/lan.2005.0013

References

External links LSA Member Spotlight: http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/january-2016-member-spotlight-megan-crowhurst Video, "Beyond the Iambic-Trochaic Law": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0wiCzy4YBA Faculty page at UT Austin: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/linguistics/faculty/crowhurs The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America—South American Languages Collection of Megan Crowhurst:

https://www.ailla.utexas.org/islandora/object/ailla%3A124383

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Megan Crowhurst

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Megan Crowhurst ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Megan Crowhurst

In research: Megan Crowhurst appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Megan Crowhurst in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Megan Crowhurst is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1961 births, Australian academic journal editors, Canadian academic journal editors, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Megan Crowhurst outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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What is Megan Crowhurst in simple terms?

Megan Jane Crowhurst is an Australian- and Canadian-raised linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Career Crowhurst earned her BA in linguistics at the University of British Columbia (1985) and the MA and PhD at the University of Arizona (198…

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