####Research
I’m a member of the SPAM Lab at the UA Department of Linguistics.
####Welsh
My current research focuses on the production of Welsh vowel length by Spanish-Welsh bilinguals in Argentina.
Much of my previous and ongoing research has relied on the Bangor Siarad and Bangor Patagonia corpora, developed by Bangor University’s Centre for Research on Bilingualism and available at (http://bangortalk.org.uk/). My master’s thesis (Phonemic vowel length in Welsh-Spanish bilingual speech) compared vowel durations produced by Welsh bilinguals from both corpora. I found that despite long-term bilingualism with Spanish, the way contrastive vowel length is realized in the Argentinean dialect of Welsh is no different than how it is realized in the Northern Welsh dialect in Wales. I presented a poster summarizing my results at the 2016 LSA Annual Meeting.
I’m currently employed as a research assistant for NSF grant #1453724 (SBE-RCUK: Experimental and Descriptive Investigations of Welsh (cym) Consonant Mutation).
####North Australian Kriol I’m currently collaborating with Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen and Brett Baker at the University of Melbourne on an investigation of the production of obstruent consonants by children acquiring North Australian Kriol. Results from that research were presented at the Australian Linguistic Society 2015 meeting, and at the Linguistic Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting (slides here).
####Scottish Gaelic I previously worked with Andrew Carnie and Mike Hammond (and others) on two investigations of Scottish Gaelic, one examining initial consonant mutation, and one examining the processes of epenthesis and hiatus in the language.
####Ngigua In 2014, I worked with Heidi Harley and other students in Linguistic Elicitation and Documentation (LING 588) to document an underdocumented Mexican language, Ngigua. I investigated Ngigua’s rare system of onset-dependent stress, and presented my findings at the 18th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL) at UC Santa Barbara in 2015. You can view my slides from that presentation here.
