Dylan Herrick, Associate Professor of Linguistics, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2003 and joined OU's Linguistics faculty in 2006. His research specializations are theoretical phonology and the phonetics-phonology interface, and he has done extensive work on Catalan dialects.
Currently, his research focuses on Native American languages. He has done work on the Comanche vowel system and tone and vowel length in Cherokee. He is also doing preliminary work on the phonology of Osage.
Prior to OU, he spent three years teaching English at the middle school and high school level in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. He also spent two years teaching English and Linguistics at Mie University (Mie Prefecture, Japan), and he spent one year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Pomona College.
Currently, Dr. Herrick teaches TESL 5113 "Phonetics for ESL" for the MA in TESOL Program. He also serves on the program Steering Committee. The course provides a graduate-level introduction to the study of human speech sounds with an emphasis on how this relates to teaching English to speakers of other languages.
Research Interests: Phonetics, phonology, language documentation, language revitalization, Catalan, Comanche, & Osage.
