Projects

Prosody in Austronesian

Intonation in Tagalog

Currently working on a phonological model of intonation in Tagalog, which I presented on at the Annual Meeting of the LSA in January (joint work with Sun-Ah Jun)

Prosodic constituency in Tagalog

I have been looking at the suprasegmental (edge tones, final lengthening) and segmental (glottal stop retention, vowel lowering) correlates to prosodic phrasing in Tagalog. In elicitation carried out at the University of the Philippines, Diliman in September 2023, I carefully control the segmental makeup and the position in the utterance to determine how the correlates of phrasing are realized in different prosodic positions in Tagalog. Manuscript in progress!

Multimodal prosody in Indonesian

In collaboration with Daniel Kaufman (Queens College, CUNY & ELA) and Constantijn Kaland (University of Cologne), we have been applying novel evidence from gesture to speech alignment to attempt to uncover evidence for prosodic structure at the word level in regional varieties of Indonesian. 

Gesture, prosodic prominence, and stresslessness in Indonesian. (with Dan Kaufman and Constantijn Kaland). Accepted to Language and Cognition. Preprint

Gesture and prosodic prominence in Ambonese Indonesian (with Dan Kaufman and Constantijn Kaland). In Proceedings of the International Phonetics Association. pdf 

Gesture alignment in a "stressless" language. (with Dan Kaufman) In Proceedings of AFLA 28. pdf

Perception of tonal and segmental cues to phrasing in Seoul Korean

In joint work with Seung Suk Lee, we leverage the fact that in Seoul Korean, polar and wh- questions are string identical but disambiguated prosodically to test how listeners weight the segmental and tonal cues to prosodic constituency. 

The perception of tonal and segmental cues to phrasing in Seoul Korean (with Seung Suk Lee). Presented at LabPhon 19. poster

Intonational phonology of African American English (AAE)

As a research assistant on the project Understanding Variation in African American Language (PIs Dr. Kristine Yu and Dr. Lisa Green, NSF# 2042939), I have been working on aspects of the intonational phonology of AAE. We have used a variety of data-driven methods to capture aspects of intonation as well as variability across and within speakers, including FPCA and contour clustering.

Prosodic variability in marking remote past in African American English. (with Kristine M. Yu) In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. pdf

Phonological markedness in Tagalog

With Jed Pizarro-Guevara, we experimentally tested whether listeners are sensitive to phonological markedness violations in Tagalog using a memory recognition paradigm.

Phonological markedness interacts with word order in Tagalog: Evidence from a memory recognition task (with JP Guevara, JM de Pano, and P Asuncion) to appear in The Proceedings of NELS 54. preprint

Phonetic implementation of tone

In joint work with Seung Suk Lee, Cerys Hughes, Kristine Yu, we have looked at the phonetic implementation of high tone spans in Luganda. Using Functional Principal Components Analysis (FPCA) and GAMMs, we were able to capture variation in the phonetic implementation of high tone spans that have the same surface representation, but come about through different phonological processes. We have also looked at the questions this work raises about researcher degrees of freedom and methodological choices.

Phonetic implementation of phonologically different high tone spans in Luganda. (with Cerys Hughes, Seung Suk Lee, and Kristine Yu) In Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. pdf