• Professor (retired)
• Ph.D., University of London
• M.A., Memorial
• B.A. (Ed.)
• B.A. (Hons.)
• Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Medal (awarded 2016) for Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador

Research Interests

Synchronic variation versus diachronic change; phonetic facts versus phonological theory; reconstructions of Proto-Indo-European; typological considerations in reconstruction; dialectal features of English in Newfoundland and Labrador; dialectal fieldwork on English in southwestern England, and on relic French in the Channel Islands, especially in Guernsey.

Contact Info

Telephone: (709) 754-2598
Email: harl@nl.rogers.com