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
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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).