Fred Eckman
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Johnston Hall 135
Note: Professor Eckman has retired, and is no longer accepting new graduate student advisees.
Research Lab
Degrees
PhD, University of Indiana
Research Interests
Second language acquisition; second-language phonology; second-language syntax
Teaching Areas
General linguistics; second language acquisition
Courses Offered
Linguis 100 – The Diversity of Human Language
Linguis 350 – Introduction to Linguistics
Linguis 420 – Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
Linguis 468 – Language in Its Various Forms
Linguis 708 – Proseminar in Linguistics
Linguis 806 – Seminar in Linguistics
Selected Publications
Song, Jae Yung, and Eckman, Fred R.“Covert contrasts in the acquisition of English high front vowels by native speakers of Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish” Language Acquisition(2019): 1-21.