Teaching

    Undergraduate classes

  • LIGN87 Freshman Seminar - Language Games and Secret Languages
  • LIGN87 Freshman Seminar - Endangered Languages
  • LIGN87 Freshman Seminar - Language in Hip-hop
  • LIGN90 Introduction to the Semitic Languages
  • INTL190 International Studies Senior Seminar: Language Policy and Language Planning in Africa
  • INTL101 Culture and Society in International Perspective
  • LIGN101 Introduction to the Study of Language
  • LIGN108 Languages of Africa
  • LIGN110 Phonetics
  • LIGN111 Phonology
  • LIGN119 First and Second Language Learning: from Childhood through Adolescence
  • LIGN120 Morphology
  • LIGN141 Structure of French
  • LIGN151 Language History
  • LIGN175 Sociolinguistics
  • LIGN177 Multilingualism

  • Graduate classes

  • LIGN211A Introductory Phonology
  • LIGN211B Non-linear Phonology
  • LIGN240 and LIGN241 Field Methods/Fieldwork
  • LIGN213/215 Issues/Topics in Phonology

Advising

    Current advisees

  • Nese Demir. Nese is a first year student specializing in phonology/morphology of Turkish and other Turkic languages.
  • Hope Morgan (co-adviser: Rachel Mayberry). Hope is finishing her dissertation on the phonology of Kenyan Sign Language
  • Adam McCollum. Adam is interested in vowel harmony and specializes in Turkic and Pamiri languages.
  • Michael Obiri-Yeboah. Michael is working on the phonology of Gua, a language of Ghana.

  • Current dissertation committees

  • Andres Aguilar. (chairs: Gabriela Caballero & Marc Garellek). Laryngeal articulations and grammatical structure.
  • Kati Hout. (chair: Eric Bakovic). The gradient nature of exceptionality.
  • Amanda Ritchart. (chair: Marc Garellek). The influence of voice quality on the perception of nasalization
  • Nicholas Root (UCSD Psychology; chair: V.S. Ramachandran). Language influence on the phenomenology of grapheme-color synesthesia.

  • Previous PhD students

  • Bethany Keffala (co-adviser: Jessica Barlow, SDSU). 2015. Learning to Share: Interaction in Spanish-English bilinguals’ acquisition of syllable structure and positional phonotactics
  • Rebecca Colavin. 2013. (co-chair w/Roger Levy). Phonotactic probability in Amharic: a psycholinguistic and computational investigation.
  • Nicoleta Bateman . 2007. Full and Secondary Palatalization: A Typological Study.
  • Linda Godson . 2003. (co-chair w/Maria Polinsky). Phonetics of Language Attrition: Vowel production and articulatory setting in the speech of Western Armenian heritage speakers.
  • Alicia Munoz Sanchez . 2003. The Effect of Phonological Status on the Acquisition of New Contrasts: Evidence from Spanish and Japanese L2 Learners of English.

  • Previous dissertation committees

  • Kevin McMullin. 2016. (UBC; chair: Gunnar Hansson). Tier-Based Locality in Long Distance Phonotactics: Learnability and Typology.
  • Ryan Lepic. 2015. (chairs: Farrell Ackerman & Carol Padden) Motivation in Morphology: Lexical Patterns in ASL and English
  • Lucien Carroll. 2015. (chairs: Eric Bakovic & Gabriela Caballero) Ixpantepec Mixtec Word Prosody.
  • Jonathan Udoff. 2014. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders; Chairs: Karen Emmory and Ignatius Nip) Mouthings in American Sign Language: Biomechanical and Neurological Foundations.
  • Will Bennett . 2013. (Rutgers University, chair: Alan Prince) Dissimilation, Consonant Harmony, and Surface Correspondence.
  • Bozena Pajak . 2012. (chairs: Eric Bakovic & Roger Levy) Inductive inference in non-native speech processing and learning.
  • Cynthia Kilpatrick. 2009. (chair: Eric Bakovic). The Acquisition of Ungrammaticality: Learning a Subset in L2 Phonotactics.
  • Michael Hughes. 2003. (chair: David Perlmutter) Morphological faithfulness to Syntactic Representations.
  • Martha Senturia. 1998. (chair: Kathleen Hubbard). A Prosodic Theory of Hiatus Resolution.

  • Previous honors theses

  • Richard Kroeger. 2016. Folk Definitions of Korean Ideophones. (co-advised with Gabriela Caballero)
  • Chris Eager. 2011. The Place of Variation and Gradience in Phonology: The Case of Unstressed Vowel Devoicing in Andean Spanish.
  • Andrew Strabone. 2010. Morpho-phonological properties of causatives in Moro. shorter version appeared in Selected Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference on African Linguistics.
  • Michelle Haft. 2005. Vowel Lengthening in Friulian and the Effect of Following Consonant Voicing. (co-advised with Amalia Arvaniti).