Publications

(In Progress)    A Gestural Deconstruction of the Minor Syllable. Proceedings of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012.

(In Progress)    Bunong Language Sketch. In The Austroasiatic Languages, Mathias, J. and Sidwell, P., eds.

(Submitted)    Registrogenesis in Bunong: The Interaction of Phonetics and Phonology. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.

(To appear)    A Gestural Account of Minor Syllables: Evidence from Khmer. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society.

(2014)    Deconstructing the Southeast Asian Sesquisyllable: A Gestural Account. Ph.D. dissertation. Cornell University.

(2012)    [With Tilsen, S., Zec, D., Bjorndahl, C., L’Esperance, M., Fisher, A., Heimisdottir, L., Renwick, M. and Sanker, C.] A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Articulatory Coordination in Word-initial Consonant Clusters. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.

(2006)    The Pharyngeal Hierarchy. SKY Journal of Linguistics 19:229-237.

Presentations and Posters

(2013)    The Nonequivalence of Phonological Categories and Phonetics in Burmese. MOT Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa.

(2013)    Half-syllables in Two Southeast Asian Languages. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Brown Bag Lecture Series.

(2013)    A Gestural Interpretation of Variation and Variability in Minor Syllables. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.

(2012)    A Gestural Deconstruction of the Minor Syllable. Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

(2012)    Intrusive Schwa in Khmer. The 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Stuttgart.

(2012)    A Gestural Account of Minor Syllables: Evidence from Khmer. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.

(2011)    Unary Stress as a Result of Coupled Oscillators. The 2nd UConn Workshop on Stress and Accent.

(2011)    A Reanalysis of Minor Syllables: The Interaction of Word Maximality and Positional Markedness. Southeast Asian Linguistics Society XXI, Kasetsart University.

(2010)    Registrogenesis in Bunong: The Interaction of Phonetics and Phonology. Workshop on Sound Change, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

(2010)    Degar Identity and Language. Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Symposium, Cornell University.

(2010)    The Sesquisyllable as a Disyllabic Word. CUNY Conference on the Word in Phonology.

(2005)    The Pharyngeal Hierarchy: A Solution to the Blocking of Emphasis Spread in Arabic. University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics.