Ronald F. Feldstein
(Ph.D. Princeton University)
<feldstei@indiana.edu> is Professor of Slavic
Linguistics at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana,
where he is also serving as departmental Chair. He is a
member of the Executive Committee of the Slavic and East
European Language Resource Center and a member of the board
at Slavica Publishers. Major published papers include "The
Unified Monophthongization Rule of Common Slavic" (2002),
"Roman Jakobson's East Slavic zones" as presented in
Remarques sur l'evolution phonologique du russe (2002),
"Nominal Morphological Invariants of Russian Mobile Stress"
(1999), "On the Relations Between Russian Desinences and
Stress Patterns" (1997), "Romanian Verbal Desinences for
Tense, Number, and Person" (1994), "On the Nature and Use of
the Accentual Paradigm" (1993), "On the Structural Meaning of
the Dybo Law" (1990), and "The Inverse Proportionality of
Segmental and Suprasegmental in the Russian Verb" (1987).
Current research is in the areas of Russian accentual
representation and Common Slavic diphthongal evolution.