Andrei A. Avram is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He holds a PhD in linguistics from the “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest (2000), and a PhD in Linguistics from Lancaster University (2004). His research areas are pidgins and creoles with various lexifiers, language contacts, and phonology. Publications include Pidginurile şi creolele cu bază engleză şi franceză ca tip particular de contact lingvistic (2000), On the Syllable Structure of English Pidgins and Creoles (2005), Fonologia limbii japoneze contemporane (2005), book chapters in edited volumes, and articles in English World-Wide, English Today, Journal of Language Contact, Cochlear Implants International, Lengua y migración, Études Créoles, Linguistics in the Netherlands, Mediterranean Language Review, Linguistik Online, Papia, Acta Linguistica Asiatica, Linguistica Atlantica, Romano-Arabica, Revue roumaine de linguistique, Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics.