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Education
Michael completed his doctorate in linguistics at the University of Toronto in 1980. His thesis, supervised by Pierre Leon, was entitled "On intonation: functional, emotive, phonological."

Teaching
Michael Dobrovolsky was a linguistics professor at University of Calgary Werklund School Of Education located in Calgary, Alberta.

Academic work
In his own research, Michael focused on phonetics (both physiological and Acoustic phonetics) and its relation to phonology, especially in the area of stress and accent. His language focus in the latter area was on Turkic, particularly Turkish and Chuvash. He conducted valuable fieldwork on these languages in Turkey and Russia. Some of this important unpublished work may become publicly available in time, including his translation of Nikolai Ashmarin's Chuvash language materials (1897-98). Michael also created the enduring University of Calgary Phonetic Inventory. "

Personal Life
Michael had training as a musician and musicologist from his collegiate days, which helped with his linguistic research. Michael was a diligent reader of The New Yorker, and a fan of Major League Baseball. Michael died of cancer on October 22, 2012.

Acccolades
Michael had an award dedicated to him, which was inaugurated on the occasion of his retirement in 2007. The Michael Dobrovolsky Undergraduate Linguistics award is awarded at The University of Calgary."

Books
Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: an introduction First Edition

Contemporary Linguistics: an introduction Adapted Edition - Adapted from the Canadian edition, this new European edition was fully adapted and updated by Francis Katamba with appropriate UK and international phonetic and sociolinguistic material. All the core topics of linguistics are covered, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, the genetic and typological classification of the languages of the world, and historical linguistics. Interdisciplinary areas discussed include language and the brain, psycholinguistics - the study of language processing, first and second language acquisition, language in social contexts and the fast-growing area of computational linguistics.

Contemporary Linguistics: an introduction Third Edition Adaptation of: Contemporary linguistics analysis.

Articles
Intonation in English, French and German: Perception and Production - This article reports the results of three experiments which investigated the role of intonation in foreign accent. It was found that adult French, English and German speakers differ in the slopes (fundamental frequency divided by time) of their continuative intonation. Monolingual English and French children also differ in their continuative intonational slopes. Students who are native English speakers but attend French immersion schools, acquire appropriate French continuative intonation by age 10, but at age 16 they typically use English intonation when they speak French. A perception experiment showed that no language group chose intonation patterns with slopes based on native production data to be more native-like than those with slopes based on non-native data. Some remarks are made about language acquisition in the immersion setting and about convergence in intonational function.