Sara Mackenzie

Sara Mackenzie is Department Head and Associate Professor of Linguistics at Memorial University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research examines phonological representations, harmony systems, and interfaces between phonetics-phonology and morphology-phonology, with emphasis on contrastive feature theories and Stratal Optimality Theory.

Recent publications analyze vowel harmony through feature-based frameworks and structure preservation in phonological theory. Experimental work includes acoustic/articulatory studies of /l/ allophony in Newfoundland English and moraic patterns in Japanese language games. Her research integrates theoretical modeling with empirical data from diverse languages including Nilotic languages and Nez Perce.

She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, and experimental methods.