Vitor Lacerda Siqueira

Hi, welcome to my page!

I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at New York University (NYU), with a focus on phonetics, phonology, language documentation, and sociolinguistics. My advisors are Dr. Lisa Davidson and Dr. Gillian Gallagher.

I’m also a visiting researcher at the Federal University of Rondônia in Porto Velho, Brazil, where I conduct fieldwork with Amazonian languages under the supervision of Dr. Natália Cristine Prado.

For my undergraduate thesis, “The Role of Nasalization as a Correlate of Gay Identity in Brazilian Portuguese,”  I worked under the guidance of Dr. Carmen Fought (Pitzer College). 

During my time as an undergraduate, I also collaborated with Dr. Kathryn Franich at Harvard University's Phonetics and Phonology Lab, studying co-speech gestures in Niger-Congo languages—specifically Medʉmba, Babanki, and Igbo—and assisting with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data collections.

The photo in my header is from my home in the Ponte Alta community, located in Mutum, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 

My name is pronounced ['vi.toh la.'sɛh.dɐ si.'kej.ɾɐ]