About Me
I am a Ph.D. student of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. My general research interests include speech production, perception, and processing, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, morphosyntax, and indigenous languages and grammars. I am a founder and member of the board of directors for FindingFive, an educational and scientific non-profit dedicated to helping behavioral researchers design and implement studies over the web. I also love to cook, and occasionally brew my own beer and cider. About My Research I am currently working with conversational speech corpora to examine the effects of lexical-phonological neighbors on the realization of phonetic cues. This research includes investigations into (1) the kinds of lexical-phonological neighbors that seem to trigger contrastive hyper-articulation of phonetic cues, (2) the kinds of phonetic cues that are actively enhanced in this way, and (3) the role of context and predictability on the realization of contrastive hyper-articulation. I have also worked with native speaker consultants and other linguists on Hiaki (alt. Yaqui, Yoeme), an indigenous language of Arizona and Mexico. This work has included the study of the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of abilitative passives, as well as the production of teaching materials and a grammar workbook for the Hiaki language. For more about my research, visit my research page. |