Curriculum Vitae of Prof Ian Bekker

1.  General information

Title, name and surname: / Prof Ian Bekker
Date of birth: / 1972/10/11
Citizenship: / RSA
Professional registrations: / LSSA

2.  Contact details

Organisation where based: / North-West University (NWU)
Faculty or School: / Faculty Humanities: School of Languages
Work telephone number: / +27 (0)182991487
Work fax number: / +27 (0)182991562
Cell phone number: / +27 (0)71 378 3854
E-mail address: /
Website address: / http://www.nwu.ac.za
Work postal address: / School of Languages
Private Bag x6001
NWU – Potchefstroom Campus
Potchefstroom
2520
Work physical address: / Office 215
Frans du Toit Building (E9)
Potchefstroom Campus – NWU
Potchefstroom

3.  Qualifications (Start with most recent)

Qualification type: / PhD
Field of study: / Linguistics
Institution: / North-West University
Year obtained: / 2009
Qualification type: / MA
Field of study: / Linguistics
Institution: / UNISA
Year obtained: / 2003

4.  Employment history (From current backwards. Not more than five)

Position: / Organisation / Appointed from – to:
Associate Professor: English / Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU) / July 2010 to current
Lecturer / Rhodes University / 2000 to 2010

5.  Research expertise

Scientific domain: / Linguistics
Main research field: / Sociophonetics
Fields of specialisation: / The Historical Sociophonetics of South African English
NRF rating and year rated: / None

6.  Publications (List publications over the last three years)

International publications: / 2013: The Formation of South African English. English Today, 29(1), 3-9.
2012: The Story of South African English: A brief linguistic overview. International Journal of Language, 1(1), 139-50.
2012: South African English as a late 19th-century extraterritorial variety. English World-Wide, 33(2), 127-146.
National publications: / 2011: Dentalisation as a regional indicator in General South African English: an acoustic analysis of /z/,/d/ and /t/. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 29(1), 77—88 (with Cathleen O’Grady).
2010: The attitudes of isiXhosa-speaking students toward language of learning and teaching issues at Rhodes University, South Africa: General trends. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 28(1), 39-60 (with Philomina Aziakpono).

7.  Papers delivered (List papers over the last three years)

International papers: / Bekker, I. NURSEing the CURE: Acoustic evidence for a NURSE-CURE Merger in South African English. Presented at the Accents 2011 conference in Łódź, Poland, December 2011.
Bekker, I. A three-stage koineization model for the formation of South-African English: reconstructing BATH-Backing. Presented at the ICEHL-16 in Pecs, Hungary, 2010.
National papers: / Bekker, I. Determinants of new-dialect formation: evidence from South African English. Presented at the LSSA conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 26-29 June 2011.
Bekker, I. South African English as a late 19th-century variety. Presented at the LSSA conference in Pretoria, 2010.