I'm a post-doctoral research associate in the Department of Linguistics and Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California, investigating speech production and perception, and phonological organization in human language.

My research focuses on the phonetic properties of 'patterns of sounds', with a special interest in phonological classes which have proven difficult to describe:  liquid  and  fricative  consonants.

In the Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge group at USC, we use real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging and other technologies to investigate the dynamics of speech production -- how the vocal tract is shaped over time -- to inform our knowledge of phonological structure and its cognitive representation.