Professor Childs passed away on January 26, 2021
Courses Taught
- LING 4/512: Phonology
- LING 4/515: Phonetics
- LING 4/517: Language Endangerment
- LING 4/520: Historical Linguistics
- LING 4/532: Sociolinguistics
- LING 4/582: Pidgins and Creoles
Research Projects, Interests & Awards
Representative Publications
- 2020. Bom-Kim. The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, ed. Rainier Vossen and Gerrit Dimmendaal. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press: 439-450.
- 2018. Forty-plus years before the mast: My experiences as a field linguist. Word Hunters. Field linguists on fieldwork., ed. by H. Sarvasy & D. Forker, 61-78. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- 2016. Busy intersections: A framework for revitalization. In Africa's Endangered Languages, ed. by Jason Kandybowicz and Harold Torrence. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Ch. 7 - Childs Final.pdf
- 2014. Sound symbolism. In J.R. Taylor (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of the word. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
- 2013. Doing what (you think) is right in the field: Problematizing the documentation of endangered languages. In R. Vossen & W.H.G. Haacke (Eds.), Lone Tree: Khoisan Studies in the Service of the Koon. Essays in memory of Anthony Traill (pp. 91-108). Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
- 2010. Language contact in Africa, a selected review. In R. Hickey (Ed.), Handbook of Language Contact (pp. 695-713). Malden, MA and Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.