Welcome!

I am a PhD candidate in Linguistics at UC Berkeley. 

My primary research interests are in indigenous and marginalized language revitalization, phonetics, phonology, and variation. I focus on the relationship between laryngeal features and segmental length in different languages, particularly Yanesha' (Arawak), Barese (Upper Southern Italian Language Group), and Maranese / Calabrese (Extreme Southern Italian Language Group). This relationship sheds light on some of the big questions in phonology, such as whether representations should favor phonetic detail or phonological abstraction, and when to incorporate categoricity versus gradience. 

I respectfully acknowledge that I study and teach on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe.