Hans Basbøll is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. He has published extensively on Danish and general phonology. His books include, with Johannnes Wagner, Kontrastive Phonologie des Deutschen und Dänischen (1985). He has served on the editorial boards of Phonology, Cognitive Linguistics, and Nordic Journal of Linguistics and directed projects on Danish children's language acquisition. In 1991 he was elected a Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.