Research Profile
My research examines the tonal and accentual properties of words in a variety of languages, including many endangered languages of Mexico (Triqui, Mixtec, Ixcatec). I am particularly interested in the relationship between speech production and aspects of phonological structure. I investigate these topics via original fieldwork, corpus data analysis, experimental phonetics, and articulatory methods.
Expertise
- Phonetic data analysis
- Voice quality and tone
- Phonological analysis
- Linguistic fieldwork
- Statistical methods in R
- Corpus phonetics
- Praat scripting
- Indigenous languages of Mexico
- Southeast Asian languages
PhD Students
- Miao Zhang
Prosodic conditions on the production of vowel sequences - ---
- Richard Hatcher
The phonetics and phonology of Cayuga prosody - ---
- Joshua Benn
The phonetics, phonology, and historical development of Guienagati Zapotec
Organization
- (2016) The 5th Symposium of the Tonal Aspects of Languages (TAL).
Proceedings available here