Research

My research explores human sound patterns. More specifically, I investigate the nature of phonological representations and transformations. On the representational front, my dissertation and subsequent experimental fieldwork — mostly in Central Asia — has been focused on whether or not phonological representations include continuous information from phonetics, or if phonological representations are necessarily discrete. Concerning phonological transformations, I’m interested in process application, as well as the computational complexity of phonological mappings. To address these topics, my work draws on primary fieldwork, experimentation, formal language theory, and corpus analysis.

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