Andries Coetzee (linguist)

Andries Coetzee began his education at the North-West University, South Africa. He received a BA in Classics and Semitics, and a BA honors in Semitic Languages as well as Theology. After earning a master's degree in Semitic Languages in 1996 from the North-West University, he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2004, with a dissertation titled What It Means to be a Loser: Non-Optimal Candidates in Optimality Theory. After finishing his education he began working at the University of Michigan.[4]

Coetzee served on the editorial board member of Phonology[5] until 2018, and as Editor of Language (2017-22), the flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America.[6][7] He teaches both undergraduate and graduate students Phonology, as well as many introductory courses in Linguistics. He has overseen many undergraduate and graduate students as they work on their projects, whether it be an honors thesis or a dissertation. His own current research is focused on the time course of speech perception and production in individual language users. He is also working on a project with colleague Patrice Beddor, which focuses on the hypothesis that a language user's perception and production repertoires or grammars are complexly related in ways that are mediated by wide-ranging factors. Coetzee served as the Director of the African Studies Center at the University from 2018 to 2022.