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 Formant Track Extractor |
R-Scripts |
recontrast.R plot_tels1.0.1.R: Mapping Scripts |
Papers and Presentations
Papers
| To appear | Redevelopment of a Morphological Class
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 2011 Presented at PLC 35 Handout:PDF |
| To appear | with Jonathan Gress-Wright and Joel Wallenberg Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate Effect, PDF Proceedings NELS 40 Presented at NELS 40, 2009 |
| 2011 | with Kyle Gorman
Cross Derivational Feeding is Epiphenomenal Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2010 Presented at NAPhC 6 |
| 2008 | The spread of raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2 Presented at NWAV 36, 2008 |
| 2007 | The Spread of Raising: Opacity, lexicalization, and diffusion
Undergraduate Thesis link |
Presentations
| 2011 |
Using Speech Community Data as Phonological Evidence
Invited talk at The Penn State Center for Language Science Slides:PDF Poster presented at NELS 42 Poster: PDF |
| 2011 |
The Phonological Aspect of Phonetic Change
Paper Presented at NWAV 40 Handout:PDF |
| 2011 |
with Laurel MacKenzie New results from hierarchical models of the community grammar Paper Presented at NWAV 40 Handout:PDF |
| 2011 | Phonetic Change and Phonology
Paper Presented at MFM 19 Handout:PDF |
| 2010 | Mergers, Distinctions, and Shifts
Poster Presented at the NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting PDF |
| 2010 | Vowel Shifts and the Phonology Phonetics Interface
Presented at NAPhC 6 Handout: PDF |
| 2009 | Report from the R Study Group: What I couldn't have done otherwise
Presented at Splunch Handout:PDF; R Code |
| 2008 | Evaluation and simulation of exemplar theoretic -t/-d deletion
Presented at NWAV 37 Handout:PDF |
Teaching
| Spring 2011 | Ling 102: Intro to Sociolinguistics | Teaching Assistant |
Service
| 2007 | NWAV 37 Committee Member |
| 2008-2009 | PLC 33 Committee Member |
| 2009-2010 |
PLC 34 Co-Chair Language Variation and Change Reviewer |
| 2010-2011 | PLC 35 Committee Member |
| 2010 | RA: FAAV Project |
| 2011 | Penn Linguistics Club: President Penn Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume Editor |