Welcome

I am a linguist primarily interested in langauge variation and change within the morphophonological domain. I use stochastic modeling techniques and Optimality Theory to formalize and better understand how languages change, why they change, and why variation exists in the first place. I am also interested in the use of information theory in linguistic models of human communication, in field work on understudied and overstudied languages, and in the interplay among syntax, prosody, and phonology.

I am presently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Stanford University.