Andries Coetzee (linguist)
{{short description|South African linguist}}
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Andries W. Coetzee ({{IPA|af|ˈɑndris kutˈsiə}}) is a South African linguist currently working as a professor of linguistics at the University of Michigan, and formerly having served as Director of the African Studies Center (2019–2022). Since receiving his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2004{{Cite web|url=http://www.umass.edu/linguistics/alumni-linguistics|title=Linguistics {{!}} UMass Amherst|website=www.umass.edu|access-date=2017-01-10}} he has been a major contributor in research in the fields of Phonetics and Phonology. His career has been spent teaching in South Africa and at the University of Michigan, and being heavily involved with the Linguistics Institute of the Linguistic Society of America. In 2011 he received the first ever Early Career Award from the Linguistic Society of America,{{Cite web|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/early-career-award-previous-holders|title=Early Career Award Previous Holders {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|website=www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date=2017-01-10}} and in 2015 was inducted as a fellow of this Society.{{Cite web|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/lsa-fellows-year-induction|title=LSA Fellows by Year of Induction {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|website=www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date=2017-01-10}}
Early career
Andries Coetzee began his education at the North-West University, South Africa. He received a BA in Classics and Semitics, and a BA honors in Semitic Languages as well as Theology. After earning a master's degree in Semitic Languages in 1996 from the North-West University, he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2004, with a dissertation titled What It Means to be a Loser: Non-Optimal Candidates in Optimality Theory. After finishing his education he began working at the University of Michigan.{{cite web|title=University of Michigan: Andries Coetzee Faculty Web Page|url=http://sites.lsa.umich.edu/coetzee/}}
Current work
Coetzee served on the editorial board member of Phonology{{cite web|title=Phonology: Editorial board|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/phonology/information/editorial-board}} until 2018, and as Editor of Language (2017–2022), the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America.{{cite web|title=Coetzee Nominated as Next Editor of Language|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/news/2016/05/05/coetzee-nominated-next-editor-language}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.linguisticsociety.org/lsa-publications/language/editors|title=Editorial Information {{!}} Linguistic Society of America|website=www.linguisticsociety.org|access-date=2017-01-10}} He teaches both undergraduate and graduate students Phonology, as well as many introductory courses in Linguistics. He has overseen many undergraduate and graduate students as they work on their projects, whether it be an honors thesis or a dissertation. His own current research is focused on the time course of speech perception and production in individual language users. He is also working on a project with colleague Patrice Beddor, which focuses on the hypothesis that a language user's perception and production repertoires or grammars are complexly related in ways that are mediated by wide-ranging factors. Coetzee served as the Director of the [https://ii.umich.edu/asc African Studies Center] at the University from 2018 to 2022.
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