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Research and Interests

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I am a phonologist who investigates Langauge from as many perspectives as I can manage. There are two primary veins to my resarch. The first and most expansive is analytical morphophonology. The second category is experimental work on speech perception and processing.

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Analytical Morphophonology

My dissertation work includes collecting a broad typological survey of the behavior of tone in reduplication. If you have any data to share or suggestions for languages to look at, please contact me. A full list of languages currently included in the project can be found at the link below.

As I typically focus on underrepresented languages, fieldwork is an important aspect in my research. Most of my work has focused on Tz'utujil, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala.

My work on Tz'utujil has included topics such as the phonetics and phonology of glottalized stops, vowel syncope, morphological vowel length, and child language acquisition.

 

I am currently working on an NSF funded collaborative project with researchers at Georgetown University (P.I. Michael Obiri-Yeboah) documenting and analyzing Awutu (Kwa), spoken in Ghana.

More information on the project can be found here.

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Speech Perception

I am interested in the effect of context on speech perception, with the meaning of context broadly construed to include factors such as:

  • language background

  • morphological context

  • phonotactics​

  • background noise

  • allophony

  • previous exposure (adaptation)

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