In order to better understand phonemic merger and near-merger, I investigate how cues beyond spectral cues (such as duration) influence perception of merged vowel classes and how perception of duration relates to production.

My dissertation focuses on expectation-driven convergence (in the absence of observed linguistic behavior) to Southern speech.

I've worked on...

I have researched Tagalog word order and voicing system, as well as glottal stop elision and compensatory phonation.