Ann Albuyeh, Ph.D.

Academic Degree:

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1985)

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Areas of Expertise:

Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Ethnolinguistics

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About: 

Ann Albuyeh is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has taught in Tehran, Iran and Jalingo, Nigeria, as well as at Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Albuyeh has also been a teaching fellow at the International School of Theory at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In addition, she writes and has worked as a magazine and newspaper reporter and editor for English-language publications in the Middle East. Although her academic research has included theoretical issues in language acquisition, her linguistics publications have most often focused on the evolution of English from Old English to the current varieties of English pidgins, creoles, and standard dialects worldwide, with a particular emphasis on Africa and the Caribbean.