Eric Bakovic

Who is Eric Bakovic?

Eric Bakovic is a linguist and associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego with a specialization in phonology; he is also affiliated with the Center for Research on Language, the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. He earned his BA in 1993 in linguistics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and completed his PhD under the supervision of Alan Prince at Rutgers in 2000.

Bakovic has made contributions to the study of phonology in Optimality Theory, particularly in the areas of assimilation, opacity, and efforts to replace rule-ordering systems with ones that comply with the monostratal architecture of OT.

He is a regular contributor to the Language Log and is the recipient of the UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award. He also manages the Rutgers Optimality Archive.