Research Program:
My research aims to contribute to several broad topics:
- The phonetics-phonology interface:
- How abstract and discrete is the most useful model of the phonetics-phonology interface? To what extent, and at what level, do articulatory, social, and cognitive factors respectively constrain such a model? How empirically traceable (i.e. concerning intra- and inter-speaker variation) must this model be?
- Speech & sexuality:
- How might sexual orientation function as a factor in sociolinguistic analysis, and how might it interact with gender & gender normativity?
- Sound change:
- How does the way marginalized speech communities are positioned, both geographically and ideologically, affect sound change?
- What is the ideal framework for capturing the relationship between synchronic and diachronic variation?
Academic Publications:
Accepted (March 2023). Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen and Micha Fischer. Journal of Phonetics.
December 2022. Sociophonetic Investigation of the Spanish Alveolar Trill /r/ in Two Canonical-Trill Varieties. With Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley. Language and Speech.
Under review. Perceptions of speaker origin and social characteristics of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. With Nicholas Henriksen, Micha Fischer, Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya, Zoe Phillips, Natalie Dakki, Ellie Maly, Sarah Khansa, Tommy Wiaduck, Jessica Czapla, Vidhya Premkumar, and Stepan Topouzian. Journal of Linguistic Geography.
December 2022. Sociophonetic Investigation of the Spanish Alveolar Trill /r/ in Two Canonical-Trill Varieties. With Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley. Language and Speech.
Under review. Perceptions of speaker origin and social characteristics of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. With Nicholas Henriksen, Micha Fischer, Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya, Zoe Phillips, Natalie Dakki, Ellie Maly, Sarah Khansa, Tommy Wiaduck, Jessica Czapla, Vidhya Premkumar, and Stepan Topouzian. Journal of Linguistic Geography.
Public Scholarship:
2020. Socially Distant Yet Intellectually Close: One class’ guide to reimagining pedagogy in the age of COVID-19. With Zoe Phillips and Ellie Maly. Inside Higher Ed. [link]
Presentations:
June 2023. Quantifying the Lobi vowel space. [Paper presentation]. ACAL54.
June 2023. /st/-production in Spanish: A cross-dialectal continuum of sound change. [Paper presentation]. CIFE 2023.
May 2023. A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. WCCFL41.
April 2023. A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. CLS59. (Accepted but declined)
March 2023. A Q-theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. Phorum (UCB Phonetics, Phonology, and Psycholinguistics forum) invited talk.
November 2022 (post-poned due to strike). Sounds of English. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 10).
November 2022 (post-poned due to strike). Intro to speech & sexuality. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 5).
August 2021. Perceptions of speaker origin and social attributes of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.
June 2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen. PaPE 2021.
2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.
2021. Phonemic Voiceless Stops in Western Andalusian Spanish: The confluence of post-aspiration and intervocalic voicing. With Nicholas Henriksen. MidPhon25. [pdf]
2020. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Undergraduate honors thesis defense.
June 2023. /st/-production in Spanish: A cross-dialectal continuum of sound change. [Paper presentation]. CIFE 2023.
May 2023. A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. WCCFL41.
April 2023. A Q- and Exemplar-Theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. [Paper presentation]. CLS59. (Accepted but declined)
March 2023. A Q-theoretic approach to cross-dialect Spanish <st> production. Phorum (UCB Phonetics, Phonology, and Psycholinguistics forum) invited talk.
November 2022 (post-poned due to strike). Sounds of English. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 10).
November 2022 (post-poned due to strike). Intro to speech & sexuality. Presentation for undergraduate intro Linguistics course (LING 5).
August 2021. Perceptions of speaker origin and social attributes of three varieties of Iberian Spanish. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.
June 2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen. PaPE 2021.
2021. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Presentation for undergraduate Spanish Linguistics course at U-M.
2021. Phonemic Voiceless Stops in Western Andalusian Spanish: The confluence of post-aspiration and intervocalic voicing. With Nicholas Henriksen. MidPhon25. [pdf]
2020. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. Undergraduate honors thesis defense.
Media:
2020. Episode 28: Zoe, Amber and Ellie. With Zoe Phillips and Ellie Maly. My Education. [link to part 1] [link to part 2]
