Books:
(under review) "The Wala language of Malaita, Solomon Islands" (with Alice Mitchell and Natsuko Nakagawa) download

Papers:
(under review) "Relative clauses in two Yemne-Kimbi languages." (with Rebecca Voll) Invited contribution to Grollemund et al. (eds.) [title to be determined] download

(2012) "Stem-initial prominence in Mungbam." Proceedings of ACAL42. Cascadilla Proceedings Project. download

(2011) "The languages of the Lower Fungom region of Cameroon: Grammatical overview." Africana Linguistica XVII:101--164. (With Jeff Good, Patrick Mve, Carine Nguanguep, Rebecca Voll and Pierpaolo Dicarlo)

(2011) "Marcos de referencia en lenguas mesoamericanas: un análisis multivariante tipológico" Proceedings of Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica V (CILLA). Austin, TX. 7 October 2011. (with Jürgen Bohnemeyer (Buffalo), Elena Benedicto (Purdue), Alejandra Capistrán Garza (UAM Iztapalapa), Katherine Donelson (Buffalo), Alyson Eggleston (Purdue), Néstor Hernández Green (CIESAS), María de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez (UNAM), Jesse S. Lovegren (Buffalo), Carolyn K. O'Meara (UNAM), Enrique Palancar (Surrey), Gabriela Pérez Báez (Smithsonian), Gilles Polian (CIESAS Sureste), Rodrigo Romero Méndez (UNAM), Randi E. Tucker (Buffalo), Verónica Vázquez Soto (UNAM) ) download

Unpublished Manuscripts:

"Sparse notes on Baaz əm" (May-2012) draft

"[ATR] contrast in a harmony-less language: the case of Mungbam" (updated Jun-2011) draft

(2011) "The linguistic phonetic properties of Mungbam vowels, and their areal-historical and theoretical significance" Qualifying paper, University at Buffalo paper

Talks:
(2012) "Tonal suppletion (?) in Munken nouns." Talk given at the 86th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Portland, OR. 5-8 January 2011. handout

(2011) "Explaining micro-variation in vowel inventories -- The case of Mungbam" Talk given at the CUNY conference on the phonology of endangered languages. 14 January 2011. slides

(2011) "Broadening documentary focus: Understanding the areal dynamics of Lower Fungom" Poster presented at the 85th annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Pittsburgh, PA. 6-9 January 2011. (with Jeff Good and Pierpaolo Dicarlo) poster

(2010) “Vowel harmony relics in Mungbam.” University at Buffalo Linguistics Colloquium, Buffalo, USA.

(2010) “Phonetic Analysis in Language Documentation.” Presented at Yaoundé University I Language Documentation Workshop, Yaoundé, Cameroon.

(2009) "Areal dynamics and linguistic diversity: The case of Lower Fungom." Talk given at the workshop "Towards polylectal grammars of African languages." Hamburg University - Asien-Afrika-Institut. 28 November, 2009. (with Jeff Good) handout

(2009) "Reassessing Western Beboid." Talk given at Bantu 3: Third International Conference on Bantu Languages. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, March 26, 2009. (with Jeff Good) handout

Teaching:
Instructor:
Fall 2012: “Introduction to Linguistic Analysis”
Teaching Assistant:
Fall 2011 “Languages of the World”
Spring 2011 “Roots of English” 
Fall 2009 “Introduction to Linguistic Analysis” 
Fall 2008 “Languages of the World”

Scripts and programs:
Calculate critical values for Rom sequentially rejective procedure (Biometrika 77(3): 663-5) perl script

Regex-enabled search over multiple text files from command line (linux/Mac OS X) perl script

latex2rtf bricolage: An amateur effort to improve latex2rtf functionality for linguistics .tex files here

 

Miscellaneous:
Facsimile copy of De Moivre's "Approximatio ad Summam Terminorum Binomii (a + b)ⁿ in Seriem expansi.PDF