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My name is Olivia Mignone [oʊ.ˈlɪ.vi.ə mɪn.’joʊn] and I am a fourth year PhD Student in Linguistics at The Graduate Center, CUNY. My advisor is Dr. Cecelia Cutler. I also teach at Lehman College as a Graduate Teaching Fellow. I received my MA in Linguistics from Stony Brook University with Dr. Lori Repetti as my advisor.

My research interests include linguistic landscapes, Ainu phonology, Japanese phonology, and endangered language documentation and revitalization.

My current research project is a semiotic analysis of the linguistic landscape of Jackson Heights, Queens. I am interested in how the HImalayan languages in the neighborhood share visual space with English and Spanish on signage in the neighborhood, and how this reflects language policy and ethnolinguistic norms.

My past phonological research involved an investigation of glottal stop epenthesis in Ainu, specifically arguing that glottal stop epenthesis is a purely phonological phenomenon as compared to glide insertion, the latter being sensitive to prosodic word boundaries.

Email: omignone@gradcenter.cuny.edu