I'm an Associate Professor at the Rutgers Department of Linguistics.
My research uses computational and mathematical approaches to study fundamental questions in phonological theory.
You can hear me talk about some issues with AI and language on this episode of SHI's Innovation Heroes podcast.
Research interests:
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Recent activities:
- Here are the slides for my talk at Montclair State.
- In September I'll be giving a talk at the Montclair State University Department of Linguistics Brown Bag series.
- Jane Chandlee and I gave a course on formal language theory and phonology at the 2023 LSA Institute at UMass, Amherst!
The course website is public; you can view it here. - I gave a talk at Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo @ Tokyo University. Here are the slides.
- I presented a tutorial on recursive schemes for phonological analysis at AMP 2022 at UCLA with Tatevik Yolyan, Adam McCollum, and Jane Chandlee. Here is the online version of the tutorial on BMRS, and here are the slides.
PhD Advisees
- Tatevik Yolyan. 2025 (expected).
- Huteng Dai. 2024 (expected).
- Eileen Blum. 2023. The effects of non-linear data structures on the computation of vowel harmony. [pdf]
- Nate Koser. 2022. The computational nature of stress assignment. [pdf]
- Chris Oakden. 2021. Modeling phonological interactions using recursive schemes. [pdf]
- Luca Iacoponi. 2018. Phonological agreement by headed feature correspondence. [pdf] (Co-advised with Paul de Lacy.)
Teaching for fall 2023:
- 615:315 Phonology (Mon, Wed 2:00-3:20pm, Scott Hall, Rm 205)
Office hours for fall 2023:
Mon, 10-11am (in person and on Zoom)