Megan Crowhurst

Megan Jane Crowhurst is a Canadian-raised American linguist. She works in the area of phonology, researching aspects of prosody, especially prosodic morphology, phonological stress, and perceptions 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.

Raised in Calgary, Crowhurst earned her BA in Linguistics at the University of British Columbia in 1985. She received her MA and PhD at the University of Arizona, completing her dissertation in 1991 under the supervision of Diana Archangeli. She taught at Yale University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and, since 1999, at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics.

Crowhurst was part of the Linguistic Society of America task force that created the Women In Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA) to provide a system to offer mentoring opportunities for female linguists. She served on the LSA committee Endangered Languages and Their Preservation, chairing the committee in 2001. In 2012 she received a grant from the National Science Foundation, “Beyond the Iambic/Trochaic Law: Perceptual influences on subjective grouping of rhythmic speech.” Beginning in 2013 Crowhurst served the Associate Editor of the journal Language, becoming its Senior Associate Editor in 2015.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1992. Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis. Phonology.

Megan J. Crowhurst. 1994. Foot extrametricality and template mapping in Cupeño. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory.

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