Eric Rosen
I was a graduate student of Doug's in the late 1990s. (In fact I was the only grad student in my cohort, so some grad `seminars' with Doug were one-on-one.) I remember Will Thompson, another grad student at the time, mentioning Doug's unique way of holding such a seminar: give a problem that no one […]
William J Turkel
I had the privilege of working with Doug between 1994 and 1997 while I was employed full time as a programmer and doing an MA in Linguistics part time. When I was revising my thesis for submission, I remember feeling badly that I had not had a reason to cite any of Doug's papers. He […]
Denis Bouchard
I first met Doug at the beginning of our first year at MIT. Well, not quite, actually. Doug was still in Africa with Anne-Marie and their daughter Cato and they only arrived a bit later on. Meanwhile, there were some very non linguistic based speculations about the origin of his family name. When they finally […]
Bruce Hayes
Doug Pulleyblank spent several early years of his outstanding research career at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and so was my local colleague down the freeway. Larry Hyman was also at USC back then, and the UCLA and USC phonologists often met together for informal talks, usually at Larry's house. When Doug […]
Lee Bickmore
I think the first time I met Doug was when I was in graduate school at UCLA in the mid-80s when Doug was teaching at USC. UCLA and USC had a combined phonology group which met periodically, sometimes in the homes of the faculty. It was great to meet someone who also worked on the […]
Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio
Congratulations Doug! I hope you are still enjoying everything you do :).