Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of Georgia’s Department of Romance Languages (profile here).

My interests lie in phonetics and phonology.  More specifically, my research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability.  Disentangling surface forms from abstract forms—and modeling how they interact—has always been a primary goal for phonological theories, but finding appropriate methods to test these questions is challenging. My research program addresses these classic questions experimentally. Using a combination of phonological, phonetic, and behavioral data, I aim to understand what abstract representations of sound consist of, how these representations are realized on the surface, and how speakers move between abstract and surface forms.

Before coming to the University of Georgia, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (2022-2024; Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS, Paris, France, project), under the supervision of Rachid Ridouane.  I received my PhD in Linguistics from NYU in 2022.  My dissertation examined the phonetics and phonological behavior of a sequence of sounds undergoing change in Sevillian Spanish (pdf).  I have also done work on the phonology-morphology interface and sociophonetic variability in monolingual and bilingual Uruguayan Spanish.  I received my BA in Spanish from Middlebury College (2014), where my thesis investigated sociolinguistic variation of rhotics in Buenos Aires Spanish.

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