Research

 

What I do

My research interests lie primarily in the areas of phonetic and phonological variation. Assuming that language cannot change or vary in a way that violates its own structure, then studying the way in which it does change and vary can be informative of its structure.

Scripts, Squibs, Tech Writeups, and Works in Progress

Analysis Methods SS-ANOVA PDF; Rnw (LaTeX + R Source)
Praat Scripts Vowel Logging System
R-Scripts recontrast.R
plot_tels1.0.1.R:

Papers and Presentations

2009with Jonathan Gress-Wright and Joel Wallenberg
Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate Effect
Presented at NELS 40
Slides:PDF
2009Report from the R Study Group: What I couldn't have done otherwise
Presented at Splunch
Handout:PDF; R Code
2008Evaluation and simulation of exemplar theoretic -t/-d deletion
Presented at NWAV 37
Handout:PDF
2007The spread of raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion
Presented at NWAV 36
2008 in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2
2007The Spread of Raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion
Undergraduate Thesis link

Links:

Splunch Weekly speech and phonetics lunch

R Open source statistical package. I'll post some of my more useful R-scripts here eventually.