Sarah Babinski

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