Stefano CANALIS

Stefano CANALIS serves as a Professor and Erasmus Incoming Coordinator at Boğaziçi University's Department of Linguistics. His academic career spans Italian and Turkish phonological systems with expertise in historical sound change and vowel harmony phenomena.

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Padua (2008)
• MA in Communication Sciences, University of Turin (2002)

His research centers on phonological representations, feature theory, stress systems, vowel length, and vowel harmony across Romance and Turkic languages. Specializing in historical phonology, he investigates irregular sound change mechanisms in Old Tuscan while extending his research to Turkish phonological processes including vowel shortening and palatalization. His work bridges phonetics-phonology interactions with historical linguistics.

Recent publications reveal a clear trajectory from Italian dialectology toward Turkish phonology, with increasing focus on vowel harmony systems across language families. His 2020-2023 work demonstrates sophisticated analysis of Turkish front glides and palatalized consonants within broader phonological frameworks.

As an active researcher, he leads BAP project 16021 on syllable phonology since 2020 and previously held postdoctoral positions at Padua University studying Romance vowel harmony and sound change irregularity.

Professor CANALIS teaches core linguistics courses including Phonology (LING 201), Advanced Phonology (LING 320), Historical Linguistics (LING 324), and graduate-level Aspects of Phonology (LING 501), maintaining a consistent teaching schedule from 2018-2022 across undergraduate and graduate levels.