Charles Reiss

Charles Reiss ( ) is an American linguistics professor teaching at Concordia University in Montreal.

His contributions to linguistics have been in the area of phonology, historical linguistics, and cognitive science. Along with colleagues Mark Hale, Alan Bale, Kyle Gorman, and Veno Volenec, he is a founder and proponent of Substance-Free Logical Phonology. Substance-freeness relates to the idea that phonetic substance is inaccessible to phonological computation (see paper "Substance abuse and "). The Concordia school of substance-free phonology also accepts the generative orthodoxy that phonological features are universal and innate, and that the transduction between phonological representations and phonetics is invariant across languages. The term ''logical phonology'' refers to attempts to minimize the ontological commitments of phonological theory by leveraging basic mathematical and logical notions derived, for example, from set theory. Reiss' ideas are well represented in three of his co-authored books, Hale and Reiss (2008), Isac and Reiss (2013), and Bale and Reiss (2018).

He graduated from Swarthmore College (BA) and Harvard University (PhD). Provided by Wikipedia