Manufacturing

Amharic prosody

I am working with Jon Barnes to analyze word- and phrase-level prosody in Amharic, a Semitic language of Ethiopia.  Our goal is to assess whether Amharic displays lexical stress as argued in various sources, or if it should be classified as an "intonation only" language.

 

Phonetic drift

I worked with Charles Chang on a project to identify the smallest amount of foreign language exposure that would lead to a change in L1 perception, or an effect of phonetic drift (see Chang 2012, 2019).  This work was published in a special issue of the journal Languages.

 

Scottish Gaelic rhythm

My Master's Thesis at Arizona State University (ASU) involved analyzing the durational metrics of Scottish Gaelic to confirm its classification as a "stress-timed" language.