Hannah Sande

Hannah Sande is Associate Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, specializing in phonological theory and its interfaces with syntax/morphology. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and conducts extensive fieldwork on West African languages, particularly Guébie (Kru) and Lobi (Gur).

Her research investigates phonological domains, morphologically conditioned phonology, prosodic systems, and linguistic typology. Current NSF-CAREER funded projects focus on multiword tone and harmony systems across four languages.

Publications center on tonal phonology, morphological conditioning, prosodic typology in African languages, and theoretical frameworks like Cophonologies by Phase. Recent work examines recursion in morphology and noun classification systems.

• Morris Halle Memorial Award for Phonology (2024)
• Peder Sather Grant Award (2023-2025)
• NSF CAREER Grant (2023-2028)
• Stanford CASBS Fellowship (2018-2019)
• NSF Documenting Endangered Languages Grant (2018-2022)

She directs the Guébie Documentation Project, maintains the California Language Archive collections, and founded the TwistedTongues database tool. Current PhD students investigate topics in phonology and morphology.