Research & Projects
Research & Projects
Ladino corpus
Our team (Rebbeca Wheeler and I) is conducting (and recording) sociolinguistic interviews with native speakers in order to create a first-of-its-kind corpus of Ladino dialects, so we can document and further investigate the dialectal differences among Ladino speakers of different regional origins.
This corpus will also be used for the creation of Ladino learning materials.
Ladino prosody
Using the Interactive Atlas of Spanish Intonation questionnaire I will be collecting data from native Ladino speakers to learn more about the prosody of the language and how it interacts with the dominant language in the areas where Ladino speakers live, primarily how it interacts with Hebrew in Israeli speakers.
Ladino language learning app
In collaboration with Mango Languages, we are working on creating an accessible, free online Ladino course (on the Mango Languages app) for modern learners who are interested in learning and preserving the language.
This project was created by members of the Sephardic Jewish community for the Sephardic Jewish community, as well as for future generations, and for people outside of the community who are interested in Ladino.
If you would like to learn more and support this project, click here.
Our research group (led by Prof. Kate Lindsey) aims to re-examine default to opposite stress in Chuvash, the existence of which has been debated in the past few decades.
We have been collecting data from native speakers in order to learn more and attempt to provide insight on the stress patterns of Chuvash (this slideshow from our talk at the LSA (2023) contains our most recently analyzed data)