Sarah's research combines formal theories of meaning and discourse with documentation and analysis of understudied languages. She has worked with Chief Dull Knife College and the Cheyenne community in Southeastern Montana since 2006 on a variety of language projects.
Amalia is a field linguist and linguistic anthropologist. Her research on pragmatics, social interaction, and language development is based on over two years of fieldwork in the Amazon Basin with speakers of Ticuna (isolate) and Máíhɨ̃ki (Tukanoan).
Zahra works with Mehri speakers in Saudi Arabia. She has also worked with Nahuatl speakers, focusing on syntax.
Evey is interested in the morphology and syntax of Austronesian languages, with a focus on Malayic languages/dialects spoken in Indonesia.
Nielson has worked with Kuy, Phnong, Southern Khmer, and other undocumented languages.
Juhyae works with Korean and Jejueo, focusing on the sentence-final particles of these languages. She is also interested in the ongoing language revitalization efforts in Jeju Island.
Charlotte focuses on Haudenosaunee language documentation.
Jane works with ASL (American Sign Language), and is interested in designing elicitation tasks, collecting/interpreting data, using ELAN in her research, and considering best practices when working with speakers.
Siree has done fieldwork with Chanthaburi Khmer in Chanthaburi, Thailand. She is currently working on vowel quality and registers in Mon-Khmer languages.
Eszter's research focuses on Turkic languages in Central Asia, in particular the syntax of Kazakh and Kirghiz.
Frances works with Salish and Dene languages and her research generally revolves around syntax and morphology. Fran was also a Graduate Research Assistant during Spring 2020 and Summer-Fall 2022.
Carley is a Linguistics and Psychology major (Class of 2023), and was an Undergraduate Research Assistant for Prof. Murray in Spring 2021 and Summer 2022.
Dan worked in Myanmar with speakers of the Burmese and Shan languages.
Mia’s current research focuses on syntax. She works on the description and the syntax of Hailar and Buteha dialects of Dagur (also Daur, Daghur, Dahur), an endangered Mongolic language spoken in Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and Xinjiang, China.
Rachel's primary interests are in phonetics and phonology and language documentation.
Lingzi works on semantics, pragmatics, and language change, with a focus on languages of the Himalayas, particularly Bodish languages spoken in China and Nepal.
Mary does research on syntax and semantics, currently focusing on definiteness and quantification. She has been doing fieldwork with Shan, a Tai language spoken in Myanmar, Thailand and nearby countries, working with people in Chiang Mai and Mae Hong Son, Thailand.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2020
Graduate Research Assistant 2018-2019
Carol-Rose's primary research interests are in morphosyntax, semantics and fieldwork methodologies. She does fieldwork with the Mayan language Ch'ol in Chiapas, Mexico. She has also worked on the Algonquian language, Mi'gmaq, in Listuguj, Quebec. Carol-Rose was also a Graduate Research Assistant during Spring 2017, Summer 2018, and Summer 2019.
Naomi is interested in phonetics and fieldwork. Her research investigates dialectal variation, in regards to prosody, in English monolingual speakers and Spanish-English bilinguals from Miami.
Okki's main interest is in Indonesian linguistics with particular area in Jakarta Indonesian phonology. At the Max Planck Institute, Jakarta Field Station, he has worked with the documentation of Betawi Malay, the indigenous Malay dialect of Jakarta.
Graduate Research Assistant Summers 2014 and 2016
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Spring 2016
Christopher's research interests are in phonetics, phonology, historical linguistics, and sociolinguistics. With respects to language documentation, he is mainly interested in the languages of the Philippines, many of which are endangered. He also has an interest in minority and less-commonly spoken languages such as Okinawan, Catalan, Basque, Canadian French, Maltese, Icelandic, and others.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2014
Becky's primary areas of interest are phonology and phonetics. In particular, she studies phonetic manifestations of constraints on syllable and word shapes. She has worked with Khmer, Bunong, Vietnamese, and Burmese and has completed fieldwork in Cambodia, Vietnam, and the US.
Teresa's research focuses on American Sign Language (ASL), in particular the left periphery and the structure of relative clauses.