About me
- Assistant professor in the linguistics department at Rutgers University
- Affiliated with RuCCs.
- A co-director of the phonetics lab
Research Interests
- Influence of phonetics on phonology
- Speech-perception and its relation to phonology
- Emergent linguistic patterns
- A corpus/experiment-based approach to Japanese rap rhymes and imperfect puns
- Accents and intonation
- Experimental approaches to sound symbolism
- A bit of semantics
Current projects
- Phonetics and phonology of geminates
- The intonation of Japanese nominal parentheticals
- The interaction of linguistic knowledge and speech perception (and the lack thereof) (w/ John Kingston)
- An experimental and corpus-based approach to Japenese imperfect puns (w/ Kazuko Shinohara)
- The accentual property of -zu in Japanese (based on a production study; w/ Matt Wolf)