I graduated from Middlebury College with a major in neuroscience and a minor in linguistics. Prior to Stanford, I served as a lab manager at the Center for Language Science at Pennsylvania State University.

My research interests center on speech science, primarily acoustics and phonetics. I am particularly interested in emotional prosody—specifically, exploring the extent to which it is cross-linguistically universal versus language/culture-specific. To investigate this, I employ methods from both psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. I am also very interested in topics such as speech adaptation within social contexts, and the production effect (the focus of my BA thesis).

I aim to further our understanding of the mechanisms behind phonetic/prosodic processing while making those psycho/neurolinguistic research more accessible to the general public. I believe research in this field has broad applications—language learning, child care, education, acting, speech pathology, and human-AI speech interaction. I am constantly exploring how to leverage my expertise to create meaningful real-world impact.

Beyond my core research, I am interested in Taiwan Mandarin and Southern Min (i.e., Taiwanese), as well as the acquisition of pragmatic particles (e.g., sentence-final particles in Mandarin, Japanese, and some other Asian languages).

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