Patricia Donegan is Retired Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (1989-2016). Her notable publications include The Study of Natural Phonology (1979, with D. Stampe), Hypotheses of Natural Phonology (2009, with Stampe), On the Natural Phonology of Vowels (1985), and The Emergence of Phonological Representation (2015).