Position: Research Officer in Linguistics (German)

Email: f.breit@bangor.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)1248 388230

Location: 37-41 College Road

• PhD: Linguistics
  University College London, 2019
• MA: Linguistics with specialisation in Phonology
  University College London, 2014
• BA: Linguistics
  2012

2023

• PublishedElements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology
  Breit, F. (ed.), Yoshida, Y. (ed.) & Youngberg, C. (ed.), Aug 2023, London: UCL Press.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• PublishedL’ART Research Assistant
  Breit, F., Tamburelli, M. & Gruffydd, I., 3 May 2023
  Research output: Non-textual form › Software
• PublishedMelody and segmental representation: a brief introduction
  Breit, F., 14 Aug 2023, Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology. Breit, F., Yoshida, Y. & Youngberg, C. (eds.). UCL Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedPrimitives of Phonological Structure
  Breit, F. (ed.), Botma, B. (ed.), van 't Veer, M. (ed.) & van Oostendorp, M. (ed.), 9 Jun 2023, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 400 p. (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics)
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• PublishedPrinciples and parameters in phonology: an introduction and overview
  Youngberg, C., Yoshida, Y. & Breit, F., 14 Aug 2023, Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology. Breit, F., Yoshida, Y. & Youngberg, C. (eds.). UCL Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedProsodic structure and recursion: a brief introduction
  Youngberg, C. & Breit, F., 14 Aug 2023, Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology. Breit, F., Yoshida, Y. & Youngberg, C. (eds.). London: UCL Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• PublishedSets of (sets of) elements
  Breit, F., 14 Aug 2023, Elements, Government and Licensing: Developments in phonology. Breit, F., Yoshida, Y. & Youngberg, C. (eds.). London: UCL Press
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• UnpublishedThe L' ART Research Assistant: A digital toolkit for bilingualism and language attitude research
  Breit, F., Tamburelli, M., Gruffydd, I. & Brasca, L., 4 May 2023, (Unpublished).
  Research output: Working paper
• PublishedThe structure and content of phonological primitives
  van 't Veer, M., Botma, B., Breit, F. & van Oostendorp, M., 9 Jun 2023, Primitives of Phonological Structure. Breit, F., Botma, B., van 't Veer, M. & van Oostendorp, M. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-36 (Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetics).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2020

• PublishedDiscussion of Scheer, T. "On the lexical character of intermodular communication"
  Breit, F., 2020, In: Radical: A Journal of Phonology. 1, p. 229-239
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

2017

• PublishedMelodic heads, saliency, and strength in voicing and nasality
  Breit, F., 29 Sep 2017, In: Glossa. 2, 1, 35 p., 85.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• UnpublishedThe Distribution of English Isograms in Google Ngrams and the British National Corpus
  Breit, F., 2017, (Unpublished) In: Opticon1826. 28 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2014

• PublishedReview of S.J. Hannahs’ (2013) The Phonology of Welsh
  Breit, F. & Harris, J., 2014, In: Phonology. 31, 2, p. 338-346
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

2013

• PublishedVoice–Nasality Interaction and Headedness in Voiceless Nasals
  Breit, F., 2013, University College London, p. 1, 22 p. (UCL Working Papers in Linguistics; vol. 25).
  Research output: Working paper

2012

• PublishedA Survey of Young British People’s Attitudes towards learning the UK's regional languages
  Breit, F., 2012, In: Début: the Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies. 3, 1, p. 59-78
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2023

• What do you really think about Welsh?

  Public outreach presentation at the Llŷn and Eifionydd National Eisteddfod 2023

  12 Aug 2023

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Eastern Generative Grammar Summer School

  Taught an advanced course on the Morphosyntax-Phonology Interface and an Introduction to Melodic Representation.

  24 Jul 2023 – 5 Aug 2023

  Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Invited speaker)
• New avenues in collecting attitudinal data on regional/minority languages: the case of Welsh

  Paper presented at the Welsh Linguistics Seminar

  27 Jun 2023

  Activity: Invited talk (Speaker)
• Quantity in North Welsh disyllables: Between Phonology and Phonetics

  Paper presented at Approaches to Phonology and Phonetics

  24 Jun 2023

  Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)

2021

• Synchronic and diachronic arguments for a trigger-centric approach to Welsh initial consonant mutation

  Paper presented at the Bilbao Morpho-Phonology Circle

  27 Jan 2021

  Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

2019

• A strictly modular perspective on Initial Consonant Mutation in Welsh

  Paper presented at Séminaire P3 (Phonétique, Phonologie, Prosodie) at Laboratoire de Linguistique de Nantes, CNRS/Université de Nantes

  16 May 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
• Reconciling Mutation and Modularity in Welsh

  Paper presented at the Atelier de phonologie, Laboratoire Sturcures Formelles du Langage, CNRS/Paris 8

  15 May 2019

  Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)

2018

• Welsh mutation for strict modularists

  Paper presented at the UConn LingLunch

  24 Apr 2018

  Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)