I’m a phonologist who works on questions of linguistic theory using computational and experimental methods. I’m an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Southern California.
Prior to this, I worked in the Computational Psycholinguistics Lab in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT, supervised by Roger Levy, and affiliated with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. I completed my PhD in 2021 under the supervision of Bruce Hayes in the Linguistics Department at UCLA.
My CV can be found here.
My research is in theoretical, computational, and experimental phonology, with particular interest in learning/acquisition, the representation of overlapping and interacting phonological processes, and phonology’s interfaces with (morpho)syntax and the lexicon.
Methodologically, I make use of whatever tools are needed for the job: right now, this means computational modeling (Bayesian and otherwise), corpus methods, online surveys of understudied languages, and laboratory experiments of all types.
Working with me: If you’re interested in pursuing a PhD with me at USC, please email me directly before submitting an application. I’m also open to supervising postdocs if the fit is good.
Feel free to get in touch: first initial last name æt usc dɑt edu.
News:
- I’m at the LSA Summer Institute this summer in Eugene, Oregon! I’ll be teaching a class called Phonology and the Lexicon, and am also co-running a two-day workshop on Abstract vs. Item-specific Knowledge from July 26-27, supported by NSF Grant #2502830. Feel free to drop by to either or both!
- I’ll also be at CogSci 2025 in San Francisco in late July – if you see me around, say hi!