My research interests include the sociophonetic consequences of dialect contact, the relationship between phonetic/phonological theory and sound change, the phonetics-phonology interface, geolinguistic diffusion of accent features, ethnic identity and language use, and statistical best practices in sociophonetics
Current Projects:
- The phonetics and phonology of accent leveling in the Charlotte metropolitan area
- Marshallese English in the south central United States
Education:
- Ph.D., Linguistics, Michigan State University, 2006
- M.A., Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
