Laura J. Downing
Congratulations, Doug, on your retirement! It’s hard to believe that it’s 25 years since I was last affiliated with UBC. The years I spent there seem like they should be more recent because they were so formative for me, and not just because I was at the beginning of my career when all experiences were […]
Mann Alli
70 ‘GBOSAS’ TO BABA DOUG Those teenage years, and as we burst into our early 20s were phenomenal jolly times full of vibrancy and excitement of youth, with exuberance at its peak. These were our University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, years from about 1972 to 1978 for a number of us and in-between those years, […]
Samuel Jay Keyser
The Chinese have a saying. You can take the true mettle of a person once you’ve seen them gambling or drunk. I would like to add, “Or when you have been treated badly by an editor.” Several years ago, perhaps close to 20, Doug submitted a ms. to Linguistic Inquiry, the journal that I have […]
Scott Myers
I first came across your work when you were a few years ahead of me in grad school and a few decades ahead of me in your understanding of phonology. For me as a beginning Africanist interested in tone, it was so exciting to see your early papers and your dissertation where you were taking […]
Sharon Inkelas
Dr Dg, yr cntrbtns t th ltrtr n vclc ndrspcfctn nsprd s mch f m wn wrk n phnlgy tht * fgrd d wlk th wlk n ths pprctn msg. OK enough of that. Plus, some people think "y" and "w" and "r" and even sometimes "l" are vowels. Underspecification is all related to contrast, […]
Jeremy Perkins
Dear Doug, Thank you for your support as a supervisor and for teaching me how to do phonological research. I have many good memories of working on my thesis on Yoruba vowel harmony – your support and guidance made the process a very positive and enjoyable one and helped encourage me to work hard to […]
Dr Seipati Dichabe
Thank you Prof Doug. I first met you in 1989 when I registered as a Masters student at University of Ottawa coming from South Africa. You lectured me in Phonology. You then became my promoter for my MA Thesis entitled Vowel Harmony in Setswana. An African Language spoken in South Africa. Due to the end […]
Zoe Lam
I'm sitting on that beige couch that Anne-Marie gave me years ago while writing this message. It's absolutely comfortable! Back to the main point… Thank you so much for teaching me phonology (among other things). In my first year I was stuck with the Eastern Meadow-Mari data set, and you offered to meet me *after* […]