Expertise

My research is in experimental approaches to phonological systems, with special interests in second language acquisition and historical dynamics.

Research Interests:

  • The Nature of Prosodic Systems in Natural Human Communication
  • Second Language Production and Perception
  • The Relationship between Speaking and Listening and Variation across Individuals
  • Phonetic Facts as Historical Pressures

Research Interests:

  • Prosodic systems in Natural Human Communication
  • Second Language Production & Perception
  • Speaking/Listening and Variation across Individuals
  • Phonetic Facts as Historical Pressures  

Research interests:

  • phonetics
  • phonology
  • experimental approaches to language description and language acquisition

Courses Taught:

  • Advanced Phonetics
  • Introduction to Historical Linguistics
  • Phonology
  • Phonetics

Subject Area:

  • Phonological and Lexical Encoding

Interests include prosodic systems in natural human communication; second language production and perception; speaking/listening and variation across individuals; phonetic facts as historical pressures.

Communities
Language Studies, Cognitive Science, Linguistics
Degrees
PhD, Ohio State University, Linguistics, 1991
BA, Calvin College, English, 1984
MA, Ohio State University, Linguistics