Bert Botma is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. His expertise is in phonology and in overlapping areas of phonetics and morphology. His main research interest is the internal structure of segments and syllables. He works on a range of languages, including (Old) English, Dutch, Nivkh and Iraqw.

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Fields of interest

• Phonology
• Phonetics
• Morphology
• Historical linguistics

Research

The contrast between sonorants and obstruents; nasals, nasalization and nasal harmony processes; laryngeal phonology; phonological features; English; Nivkh.

Grants and awards

• 2008–2012: VENI grant (NWO, Project no. 2008/01214/GW: “Crossing the great divide: The sonorant–obstruent contrast in phonology”)
• 2005: Winner of the LOT/Anéla dissertation prize 2004

Curriculum vitae

2004-present: Assistant Professor, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

Key publications

• Breit, Florian, Bert Botma, Marc van Oostendorp & Marijn van ‘t Veer (eds.) 2023. Primitives of phonological structure. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Botma, Bert & Hidetoshi Shiraishi. 2014. Nivkh palatalization: Articulatory causes, perceptual effects. Phonology 31(2).181–207.

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