University of Sonora (2008-2009)
University of Pittsburgh (2007-2008)
(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2007. M.A., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1996)
I am currently a visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Sonora.
My interests comprise historical linguistics, phonology, language contact, pidgin and
creole linguistics, and endangered language description and documentation. My interests
and work in language contact and historical linguistics focus on the mechanisms that set
language change in motion and comprise the Romance, Indo-European, and Zapotecan
language families. My interests in phonology focus on the intrasegmental structure of
consonants and the ways in which it is revealed through such processes as consonant
lenition, vowel intrusion, umlaut, prevocalization, compensatory lengthening, and the
life-cycle of consonantal syllabics.
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