About Us

Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang is a University Professor in English Linguistics with specialisations in Phonetics/Phonology/Morphology at the Department of English and American Studies, English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University College London in 2015 under the mentorship of Prof. Andrew Nevins. He also holds an M.A. in Linguistics from University College London, an M.Eng. and a B.A. in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He completed his postdoctoral training at Yale University, working with Prof. Ryan Bennett on the phonetics and phonology of Kaqchikel (Mayan).

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Andrew Nevins is a Professor of Linguistics at University College London. Professor Nevins earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT in 2005. His research areas are phonological and morphological theory and the use of experimental methods to shed light on speakers’ knowledge of patterns in their language.

He is primarily interested in formal restrictions on phonotactics and morphotactics, microvariation within closely related varieties of the same language, naturalistic misperception, and the representation of features. He has current research projects on nasal harmony, lenition, compounding, and cliticization, including work on Brazilian Portuguese, Basque, Maxakalí, and Slovenian.

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