Research


Languages

Romance languages (especially Spanish and Italian)

Slavic languages (especially Czech)

Germanic languages (especially German)

Guaraní (Paraguay), Bribri (Costa Rica)


Subfields & Research interests

Theoretical and experimental phonology and prosody

Theoretical and experimental syntax (pro-drop, variation, word order)

Information structure

The syntax-phonology interface

Discourse analysis

Dialectology

Language contact

Second language acquisition

Language Variation and Sociolinguistics