Yuri Tambovtsev
Yuri Alexeyevich Tambovtev (Russian: Юрий Алексеевич Тамбовцев) (born 1948) is a Russian professor of English and linguistics at Novosibirsk Pedagogical University.
He authored articles in linguistic methodology, automated speech recognition and the phonetics and typology of Siberian and Altaic languages.
Education
He graduated with B.A. at the Kuban State University in 1970, became Doctor of Philosophy at the Leningrad State University in 1977 and earned a Ph.D. at the St. Petersburg University in 1987. He is a member of the Finno-Ugrian Society, Ural-Altaic Society, and honorary member of the Phonetic Society of Japan (honorary council).
Selected bibliography of Finno-Ugric linguistics
- The consonantal quotient as a means to indicate structural differences, 1986, Yournal of pragmatics, 10, 741-747.
- Empirical distribution of the phonemes in Oroch: Typological analysis, 1984, Archiv orientalni, 52, 285-294.
- Phoneme frequency and closeness quotient: establishing genetic relationship degrees by phonostatistics, 1984, Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher, 56, 103-120.
- Two new interesting books, 2004, Uralistika müüdid ja faktid = Myths and facts in Uralistics, 322-330.
- Uralic language taxon: natural or artificial? (typological compactness of Uralic languages and other languages taxons: branches, subgroups, groups, families and superfamilies), 2004, Uralistika müüdid ja faktid = Myths and facts in uralistics, 200-233.
- Phonological similarity between Tofa and some other languages of Asia based on the frequency of occurrence of certain typological consonantal features 2003 Uurali keelte intra- ja interlingvistilised ühisjooned = Intra- and interlinguistic common features of Uralic languages, 169-179.
- Letter to the editor, 2003, Uurali keelte intra- ja interlingvistilised ühisjooned = Intra- and interlinguistic common features of Uralic languages 251.
- A new dictionary, 1984, Finnisch-ugrische Forschungen, 46, 173-176.
- 1985, The Canadian journal of linguistics, 107-108.