Nancy Ritter

Nancy Ritter is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, with a Ph.D. from New York University. Her research spans Phonological Theory, Phonological Acquisition, and interdisciplinary work on Visual Communication and Cognitive Structures in Dance.

• Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, New York University.

Her work bridges linguistic theory with broader cognitive and visual disciplines. Recent talks include Formal and Semantic Compositionality in Dance (2022) and Basic Cognitive Structures of Classical Ballet (2019).

• Scientific Awards:
  • SCHARP award (2019-2023): The Dance of Movement: A Study of Meaningful Movement across Art Forms and Academic Disciplines.
  • Hartford Consortium for Higher Education grant (2016-2019): The Foundations of Visual Communication.

She has published extensively on Government Phonology, vowel harmony, and phonological structures in Hungarian, Hebrew, and Georgian, with key contributions to the Oxford University Press and Mouton de Gruyter publications.