Elizabeth Valerie Hume (born 29 October 1956) is a Canadian phonologist, professor emerita at the Ohio State University.[1]
Hume received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1992, under the supervision of G. N. Clements.[2] She was a Professor of Linguistics at the Ohio State University from 1992 to 2011. From 2006 to 2011, she served as professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics.[3] From 2011 to 2017, she was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She returned to Ohio State to serve as Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education from October 1, 2017 - November 8, 2021.[4] [5]
Her fields of research are sound systems of human language, factors influencing language variation and change, and the role of information and predictability in shaping language systems.[6] [7]
In 2022, Hume was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.[8]
She was an associate editor of Phonology for many years beginning in 2008.[9]