Ezer Rasin

Ezer Rasin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at Tel Aviv University (TAU), where he also leads the TAU Phonological Computation Lab. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (2018), an MA and BSc in Linguistics and Mathematics from TAU (both prior to his PhD). Before joining TAU, he was a postdoctoral researcher in Leipzig University's IGRA program.

His research focuses on theoretical and computational phonology, learnability, and formal linguistics. Key areas include phonological opacity, optimality theory, and the interaction between phonology and morphosyntax. His work bridges empirical phonology with computational modeling, addressing questions about language acquisition and formal grammatical architecture.

Recent publications examine challenges to size-based parallel analyses in Hebrew vowel deletion, opacity phenomena in Gua and Akan, and computational approaches to phonological learning. He has contributed to journals like Linguistic Inquiry and Journal of Language Modelling, and co-edited proceedings for NELS and other conferences.

Rasin teaches courses on phonological opacity, computational phonology, and the phonology-morphology interface at TAU. His research also involves developing audio databases for endangered languages like Judeo-Baghdadi Arabic, reflecting his commitment to computational methods in linguistic documentation.