About Me
Hello! I am a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at UCLA. I work on phonetics and phonology, as well as their interface with psycholinguistics, drawing on experimental, computational, and fieldwork methods. My research investigates how abstract phonological representations interact with the mechanisms of speech production and perception, and how these interactions contribute to phonological patterns and sound change. I am interested in the role of speech planning and processing, as well as articulatory variability and cross-modal cue integration.
My qualifying paper, advised by Kie Zuraw, Magha Sundara, Jesse Harris, and Jonah Katz, investigates how the retrieval of lexical and phonological representation during speech planning affects variation in external sandhi.
My qualifying paper, advised by Kie Zuraw, Magha Sundara, Jesse Harris, and Jonah Katz, investigates how the retrieval of lexical and phonological representation during speech planning affects variation in external sandhi.
News
08/26/2026 - My paper on visual articulatory cues in production, co-authored with Alexandra Pfiffner, is published in Laboratory Phonology. Open-access at: doi.org/10.16995/labphon.20289.