Wyn Johnson Author

Wyn Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex and has taught phonology for the last 26 years. Over this period Wyn Johnson have become familiar with many aspects of theoretical phonology, up to and including Optimality Theory, as well as developing material in areas of applied and descriptive phonology such as Sociophonology and phonological acquisition. Wyn Johnson has designed and has been teaching since 2003, the graduate module on phonological acquisition which forms the basis for this book. Paula Reimers is Research Fellow at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex and has taught undergraduate phonetics/phonology courses for the past four years as well as tutoring graduate students in phonological analysis. Paula Reimers Ph.D. thesis is on the theoretical aspect of phonological acquisition; specifically, investigating the role played by markedness, a concept that is central to linguistic theory of acquisition. She continues to study manifestations of linguistic markedness across various fields.