I’m a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA. My work engages experimental techniques, acoustic analysis, and computational linguistics to investigate the influence of bilingualism and second language acquisition on the phonetic and phonological properties of speech.
My dissertation research investigated the distribution of vowel quality and quantity distinctions in the dialect(s) of Welsh spoken in Argentina, specifically, how the perception and production of Welsh vowels is affected by bilingualism with Spanish, rather than with English.
PhD in Linguistics, 2018
University of Arizona
MA in Linguistics, 2015
University of Arizona
BA in Anthropology and Linguistics, 2012
UC Santa Barbara
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Ongoing research investigating the Welsh language. Funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (1453724).
Ongoing research project investigating the dialect of Welsh spoken in Argentina. Initially funded by a fieldwork grant from the Tinker Foundation and a Doctoral Dissertation Research grant from the National Science Foundation (1729883).
Past research investigating the phonology of lenition in Scottish Gaelic, funded by NSF grant 1144318.
Linguistics 2320 - Intro to Linguistics - Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Summer 2019
Linguistics 5320 - Graduate Phonology - Spring 2019
Linguistics 3301 - Phonology - Fall 2018
Linguistics 150 - Language (section instructor, 2 sections) - Fall 2015
Linguistics 310 - Linguistic Typology (teaching assistant) - Spring 2015
Linguistics 315 - Phonology (teaching assistant) - Spring 2015
Linguistics 465 - Pragmatics (teaching assistant) - Fall 2014
Linguistics 210 - American Indian Linguistics (Instructor) - Spring 2014
Linguistics 320 - Language and Society (Instructor, implemented in person and online) - Fall 2013, Summer 2014