1964) is an American linguist whose work focuses on phonology and phonetics.
She is a Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University.
Zsiga completed her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1993 as a student of Louis M. Goldstein, and affiliated with Haskins Laboratories, with a dissertation titled Features, gestures, and the temporal aspects of phonological organization.
[3][4] Zsiga's research interests have been wide-ranging and have been supported by numerous awards and federal grants from the National Science Foundation, including projects on the conservation of endangered languages (2007-2008),[5] on the phonetics of consonants in Setswana and Sebirwa (2010 and 2011–2014),[6][7] and as director for doctoral projects on the phonetics of Burmese tones (2009),[8] consonant weakening in Florentine Italian (2007),[9] acquisition of tone in a second language (2015),[10] neutralization of phonemic contrasts in Dutch and Afrikaans (2019),[11] and iconicity in American Sign Language (2020).
[12] She is the author of a well-received introductory textbook to phonetics and phonology (Zsiga 2013),[13][14] as well as a textbook on the phonology-phonetics interface (Zsiga 2021).