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Florian Lionnet joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics in Spring 2017 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in 2016. His research areas focus on sound systems, including phonetics and phonology, as well as typology and areal historical linguistics. He has a specific interest in the documentation and description of African and Oceanic languages. Lionnet is actively involved in researching understudied and endangered languages in southern Chad and New Caledonia, which requires yearly field trips. He has published a range of scholarly work on topics such as tone representation, downstep, prosodic structure, and the interface between phonetics and phonology, including cumulative effects in gradient phonology and areal phonology.
GRE scores are not accepted. Ph.D. is the primary degree; students are not required to hold an M.S.E. prior to admission.