Assistant Professor of Linguistics

• My research interests center around phonology, a branch of linguistics. Specifically, I am interested in formal phonological theory; the interface between phonetics and phonology, such as the phonological role of acoustics and articulation; contrast loss and preservation; naturalness; derivational opacity; ludlings (language games, like Pig Latin); Polish and Slavic phonology; historical phonology (sound change); the interface between morphology and phonology; and computer models of phonological and phonetic phenomena.
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• Fall 2008
  LING 100: Introduction to Linguistics
  LING 400: Linguistics Research Seminar

• Spring 2009
  LING 210: Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetics
  LING 220: The Syntactic Structure of English

• Other courses:
  LING 010: Linguistic Typology and the Science of Constructed Languages
  LING 230: Introduction to Logic and Semantics
  LING 310: Phonology
  LING 340: Historical Linguistics

• SB in Mathematics, minor in Linguistics, MIT (1996)
• MA and PhD in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz (2000, 2003)

• In press. (With Jaye Padgett) Predicting vowel inventories from a dispersion-focalization model: New results. Papers from the 44th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. [ PDF ]
• 2006. Strong lexicon optimization. Talk given at Umass Phonology Group. [ PDF (handout) ]
• 2004. Opacity from contrast: Neutral segments in harmony systems. Talk given at the 12th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester. [ PDF (handout) ]
• 2003. Opacity and sound change in the Polish lexicon. PhD dissertation, UCSC. [ abstract ] [ PDF (defense handout) ] [ PDF ]
• 2002. Dispersion in OT: Color contrast in Middle Polish nasal vowels. WCCFL 21 Proceedings. 415-428. [ PDF ]
• 2001. Preserving synchronic parallelism: Diachrony and opacity in Polish. CLS 37: The Main Session. Papers from the 37th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society. 501-516. [ PDF ]
• 2000. Intra-representational correspondence and the realization of empty morphemes. Qualifying exam paper, UCSC. [ PDF ]
• 1999. Same-edge alignment with opposite-edge effects. Talk given at WCCFL 18. [ PDF (handout) ]
• 1999. Intra-representational correspondence and truncation. Paper given at Linguistics at Santa Cruz. [ PDF ]
• 1999. (With Kazutaka Kurisu) Infixal nominal reduplication in Mangarayi. Phonology at Santa Cruz 6. 47-56. [ PDF ]