Colin J. Ewen is Emeritus Professor of English Linguistics and Phonology at Leiden University. He is known for his works on phonology and is an editor of the journal Phonology.^[1][2][3]

• Principles of Dependency Phonology (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics), with John Mathieson Anderson
• The Phonological Structure of Words: An Introduction (2001, with Harry van der Hulst). ISBN 978-0521359146. Cambridge University Press.
• The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth V. Hume and Keren Rice (eds.), Wiley Blackwell, London. ISBN 978-1-4051-8423-6
• Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological Papers in Honour of John Anderson (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), Philip Carr, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen (eds.), John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2005