Kevin Hughes

Adjunct Lecturer, College of Staten Island

I am a recent graduate of the PhD program in linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. My work focuses on the documentation of endangered languages and research on language change, particularly within the Austronesian language family. I am currently an adjunct lecturer teaching linguistics at the College of Staten Island.

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Contact

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Academic Interests

Language documentation and revitalization, phonetics and phonology, historical and comparative linguistics, Austronesian languages (especially Micronesian and Oceanic languages), Arawakan languages

Positions

Adjunct Lecturer, English (Linguistics), College of Staten Island

Education

PhD, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center (2020)

MPhil, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center (2016)

MA, Linguistics, CUNY Graduate Center (2014)

BA, Linguistics, University of Kansas (2005)

Publications

Hughes, Kevin. 2020. The Synchronic and Diachronic Phonology of Nauruan: Towards a Definitive Classification of an Understudied Micronesian Language. City University of New York, PhD Thesis.

Hughes, Kevin. 2020. Nauruan classification. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, vol. 5(1). 257-269. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4717