Lee S. Bickmore

Lee S. Bickmore is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University at Albany, State University of New York, within the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on linguistic prosody, including tonal, accentual, and metrical phenomena, with regional expertise in Africa and Polynesia.

Education:

• PhD, UCLA, 1989

Research Interests: Professor Bickmore specializes in Linguistic Prosody, investigating complex interactions between tone, stress, and metrical systems in languages that resist traditional classification. His fieldwork emphasizes Bantu languages across Tanzania, Kenya, and Zambia, alongside Polynesian languages—particularly Tahitian—using primary data collection to analyze prosodic phenomena at the intersection of phonology and historical linguistics.