Kevin Ryan is a Professor of Linguistics at Harvard and Chair of the Department of Linguistics. He is a phonologist and corpus linguist whose research focuses on the prosodic systems of words and phrases (e.g. stress, weight, and poetic meter) and on the statistical analysis of speech/text corpora and concomitant issues of phonological variation. He has a special interest in languages of South Asia (such as Tamil and Sanskrit) and is currently completing a book on Dravidian metrics. His previous book is 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 an interlude in Munich in 2015 as a Humboldt Fellow.
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