Cassandra Caragine

/kə.ˈsæn.dɹə ˈke.ɹə.ˌdʒin/

I am a fourth year PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am primarily interested in the phonology and morphology of understudied indigenous languages.

My dissertation work is a typological study investigating the behavior of tone in reduplication.

I use a combination of analytical and experimental methods looking at the speech of both children and adults to investigate phonology and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology.

When I'm not linguist-ing

I am a big animal person. My cat ,Cheeto, has exactly two moods: perfect sleeping angel and creator of chaos. He particularly seems to enjoy knocking over my many potted plants. I have also been a swimmer since I was little and have done triathlons since undergrad. When all else fails, you can probably find me binge watching Netflix or listening to an audiobook while doing a puzzle or crocheting.

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