Kevin M. Ryan is Professor of Linguistics at Harvard University, where he served as Department Chair from 2019 to 2025. He is a phonologist whose research focuses on the prosodic systems of words and phrases (e.g. stress, weight, sandhi, poetic meter) and on the statistical analysis of corpora to model phonological variation. He has a special interest in the languages of South Asia (such as Tamil and Sanskrit) and is the author of Prosodic weight: categories and continua (Oxford University Press, 2019). Ryan received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2011 and has taught at Harvard since, with a 2015 interlude in Munich as a Humboldt Fellow.
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