Directors
Dr. Christian DiCanio
Christian DiCanio (co-director)
Interests: phonetic data analysis, voice quality and tone, phonological analysis, linguistic fieldwork, corpus phonetics, indigenous languages of Mexico, Southeast Asian languages
Dr. Matthew Faytak
Interests: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, sound change, field methods, Grassfields Bantu, Sinitic languages
Graduate Students
Pegi Bakula
Deirdre Demson
Interests: sociophonetics, sociocultural linguistics, language and identity, bilingualism, Caribbean Spanish
Sarah MacDougall
Interests: psycholinguistics, sociophonetics, historical sound change, tone languages and music, corpus methods, probability models, malaprops, West African languages
Mariana Quintana Godoy
Interests: phonology, prosody, morphophonemics, field methods, documentation, Mesoamerican languages
Jared Sharp
Interests: harmony systems and coarticulation, ultrasound tongue imaging, electromagnetic articulography (EMA), Tungusic (Manchu, Sibe), Oto-Manguean (Itunyoso Triqui), Grassfields (Kom)
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellow – University of Missouri
Dr. Joëlle Carota – Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Nazareth College
Interests: bilingualism, contact linguistics, sociolinguistics, heritage language education, second language acquisition
Postdoctoral Fellow – Hanyang University, South Korea
Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean – Vassar College
Interests: tone, vowel production, voicing, prosody
