Research

My dissertation provides acoustic descriptions of glottalic and laryngealized speech segments in the Totonacan languages of eastern Mexico. See below for some conference proceedings papers on these topics.

At the University of Rochester I worked as a research assistant, lab manager, and experimental confederate in psycholinguistics, using eye-tracking to investigate phenomena predicted by linguistic theory. I am also trained in experimental methodologies used to investigate phonetic perception.

My undergraduate honors thesis used corpus methods to describe the lexical semantics of the negative polarity particle -kin/-kAAn in Finnish. I received further training in corpus linguistics as a graduate student, and I'm interested in applying these methods to phonological corpora.