Paula ReimersPaula Reimers is Research Fellow at the Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex and has taught undergraduate phonetics/phonology courses for the past four years as well as tutoring graduate students in phonological analysis. PaulaReimers Ph.D. thesis is on the theoretical aspect of phonological acquisition; specifically, investigating the role played by markedness, a concept that is central to linguistic theory of acquisition. She continues to study manifestations of linguistic markedness across various fields. Read More Read Less