Dr. E.D. (Bert) Botma

Function:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • Phonology

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2150
E-Mail: e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Engels
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
P.N. van Eyckhof 4
2311 BV Leiden
Room number 104B
 
Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2727
E-Mail: e.d.botma@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL postdoc
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
P.N. van Eyckhof 4
2311 BV Leiden
 
Fields of interest
Phonology: the internal structure of syllables and segments; the relation between phonology and phonetics; morphology; historical linguistics.
Research
The status of ‘ambivalent’ segments, i.e. segments whose behaviour seems to be at odds with their realisation; the contrast between sonorants and obstruents; nasals, nasalisation and nasal harmony processes; laryngeal phonology; phonological features.
Curriculum Vitae
2008–2012      Postdoctoral researcher (NWO/Veni). Project title: 'Crossing the great divide: the sonorant–obstruent contrast in phonology'
2005 Winner of the LOT/Anéla dissertation prize 2004 for the best dissertation in Linguistics (see http://www.anela.nl/dissertatieprijs.html)
2004-present Assistant professor ('UD') in English Linguistics, Department of English Language and Culture, University of Leiden
2004 Doctorate in Linguistics (cum laude), University of Amsterdam
2000–2003 Various temporary teaching positions in Linguistics at the Departments of English, Dutch and General Linguistics, University of Leiden
1997–2001 Graduate student ('AiO'), Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics (HIL)
1993–1994 Harting scholarship, University of Edinburgh; teaching assistant in the German Department, University of Edinburhg (course: "Introduction to Dutch")
1991–1996 MA in Linguistics, Department of English Language and Culture, University of Leiden
Teaching activities
English linguistics (BA), various courses in English phonology, morphology and historical linguistics (MA/RM); LOT Winterschool 2009 (‘The phonology of sonorants’; postgraduate course)
Selected publications
Botma, Bert, Nancy C. Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.). Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum (in preparation, to appear in 2010).

Botma, Bert, Nancy C. Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (in prep.). ‘Nasality and voicing in Zoque’. To appear in Botma, Bert, Nancy C. Kula & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), Continuum Companion to Phonology. London: Continuum.

Botma, Bert (in prep.). ‘Sonorants’. In Oostendorp, Marc van, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume & Keren Rice (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Phonology. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell.

Botma, Bert, Koen Sebregts & Dick Smakman (in prep.).‘The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid-vowel laxing’.

Botma, Bert & Norval S.H. Smith (in prep.). ‘A laryngeal typology of Celtic obstruents’.

Botma, Bert & Jacqueline van Kampen (eds.). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (in prep., to appear in 2009).

Botma, Bert & Colin J. Ewen (2009). ‘Against rhymal adjuncts: the syllabic affiliation of English postvocalic consonants’. In Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), Strength Relations in Phonology. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 221–250.

Botma, Bert (2009). ‘Transparency in nasal harmony and the limits of reductionism’. In Backley, Phillip & Kuniya Nasukawa (eds.), Strength Relations in Phonology. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 79–111.

Botma, Bert (2008). Review of Van de Weijer, Jeroen M. & Erik Jan van der Torre (eds.), Voicing in Dutch: (de-)voicing – phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins). Nederlandse Taalkunde 13. [http://taalkunde.letterentijdschriften.nl/document_articles/326.pdf]

Botma, Bert, Colin J. Ewen & Erik Jan van der Torre (2008). ‘The syllabic affiliation of postvocalic liquids: an onset-specifier approach’. Lingua 118.1250–1270.

Koppen, Marjo van & Bert Botma (eds.). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2008. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Botma, Bert & Norval S.H. Smith (2007). ‘A dependency-based typology of nasalization and voicing phenomena’. In Los, Bettelou & Marjo van Koppen (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 36–48.

Botma, Bert & Norval S.H. Smith (2006). ‘A dependency account of the fortis–lenis contrast in Cama’. In Weijer, Jeroen M. van de & Bettelou Los (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2006. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 15–27.

Botma, Bert (2005). ‘Nasal harmony in Yuhup: a typological conundrum?’. In Kula, Nancy C. & Jeroen van de Weijer (eds.), Leiden Working Papers in Linguistics 2.4. 1–21.

Botma, Bert (2005). ‘On the phonological interpretation of aspirated nasals’. In Van de Weijer, Jeroen M. & Marc van Oostendorp (eds.), The Internal Organization of Phonological Segments. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 255–286.

Botma, Bert (2004). Phonological Aspects of Nasality: an Element-based Dependency Approach. Doctoral dissertation, University of Amsterdam (LOT dissertation series 90).

Botma, Bert (2001). ‘A licensing account of aspiration in Modern Icelandic’. In Hume, Elizabeth, Norval S.H. Smith & Jeroen M. van de Weijer (eds.), Surface Syllable Structure and Segment Sequencing. Leiden: HIL Occasional Paper Series. 53–76.

Botma, Bert, Erik Jan van der Torre & Malte Zimmermann (2003). ‘Vreemd Yoda spreekt’. Kijk, April issue 2003.

Botma, Bert & Erik Jan van der Torre (2000). ‘The prosodic interpretation of sonorants in Dutch’. In De Hoop, Helen & Ton van der Wouden (eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 17–30.

Botma, Bert (1996). ‘Domain-based place specification in Optimality Theory’. Unpublished undergraduate thesis, Department of English, University of Leiden.
Other activities
Secretary of the Dutch Linguistics Association (Algemene Vereniging Taalwetenschap)

Member of the advisory board of OCP and the Manchester Phonology Meeting
LUCL Office – 20/08/2009