- Fulbright Scholar Research Project with Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: Linguistic Creativity and Empowerment & The Neologisms of Guimaraes Rosa
- David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Research Project with Universidade Federal do Parana: Phonetic and Psycholinguistic Aspects of Language Games in Brazilian Portuguese
- Harvard Instructional Technology Research Project: A Digital Workbook of Applied and Theoretical Portuguese Phonetics (Pilot Web Site)
- National Science Foundation conference grant for Markedness and Underspecification in the Morphology and Semantics of Agreement (Award Abstract)
- Harmonizer: A web-based applet allowing users to view vowel harmony derivations step-by-step according to the model in my book Locality in Vowel Harmony and invent their own vowel-harmony languages
Current empirical research: My empirical research focuses on morphology and phonology, examining phenomena in a diverse range of languages from the directions of theoretical formalisms, experimental approaches, and fieldwork elicitation. My experimental research has focused on how real-time cognition deals with phonotactics:
- Generalization and Learning of Iterative Reduplication Patterns (listen to an audio sample of an expert)
- The Selective Use of Lexical Statistics in Turkish Voicing Deneutralization
- The Representation of Nasality in Brazilian Portuguese
My fieldwork elicitation research has recently focused on the morphological properties of pronouns and clitics in:
- Kadiweu, a Waikuruan language of Southwestern Brazil
- Zazaki, a Kurdish language of Eastern Turkey (watch a documentary I made; 23 mins)
- The Zamudio variety of Basque, spoken in Bizkaia (in Spain)
I have also recently begun fieldwork and experiments with the whistled language of Antia, Evia, Greece (watch a few short videos or a 21-min documentary describing the village and our research).
The Collage of Collaborative Dialogue
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