teaching

Science of language is a practical way of understanding an aspect of the human mind. In my teaching I seek to illustrate the breathtaking sophistication and elegance of the human Faculty of Language. 

My aim is for students to construct a global vision of linguistic structure and what it can tell us about our own experience as human beings who process the world through cognition and our senses.

From this understanding, I want to cultivate a nuanced understanding of linguistic and scientific epistemology; how first to understand a linguistic argument, to critique it, and then finally to construct arguments of their own.

This means thinking about “big picture” questions: how do we know the things we know about phonology? Why are our theories built the way they are and what should they do?