Research Agenda:
My research aims to contribute to several broad topics:
- How might sexual orientation function as a factor in sociolinguistic analysis, and how might it interact with gender normativity?
- What can the possible intersections of innovative frameworks such as Q-theory, exemplar theory, and weighted constraint-based phonology tell us about the phonetics-phonology interface, especially where sound change is concerned?
- How does the way marginalized speech communities are positioned, both geographically and ideologically, affect sound change? How should we incorporate this positionality into our understanding of a language's structures and semantics?
- What social and cognitive factors impact inter- and intra-speaker variation?
Academic Publications:
Under review. Sound Change in Western Andalusian Spanish: An Acoustic Analysis of Phonemic Voiceless Stops. With Nicholas Henriksen and Micha Fischer.
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.
Under review. Investigating Gender Effects in Phonemic Trill Variation in Buenos Aires Spanish. With Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley.
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.
Under review. Investigating Gender Effects in Phonemic Trill Variation in Buenos Aires Spanish. With Nicholas Henriksen and Shayna Greenley.
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:
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 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]
