Sarah Babinski

I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Language Science at the University of Zürich. I hold a PhD in Linguistics from Yale University and a BA in Linguistics from Swarthmore College.

In my research, I am focused on the modeling of language typologies and change. My dissertation work considers phonetics & change in stress and prosody, making use of archival data and quantitative methods to address these topics. As a Postdoctoral Fellow, I am working with Chundra Cathcart on a project concerning the description and modeling of analogical change.

Research interests:

• language change (sound/morphological)

• typology (phonetic, phonological, morphological)

• using archival materials

• corpus linguistics & quantitative methods

• prosody

• analogy

• particular language groups: Australian, Algonquian