I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute for the Study of Language Evolution (ISLE) at the University of Zürich. I hold a PhD in Linguistics from Yale University and a BA in Linguistics from Swarthmore College.
In my research, I am focused on the modeling of phonetic variation and change. My dissertation work presents a phonetic typology of lexical stress in Australian languages, making use of archival data and quantitative methods to address these topics. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I am working with Dr. Chundra Cathcart on a project concerning the description and modeling of analogical change using Bayesian phylogenetic methods.
Research interests:
language change (sound/morphological)
typology & variation (phonetic, phonological, morphological)
corpus linguistics & quantitative methods
prosody (especially word-level)
analogy
Australian language region