News

  1. ‘The four-way voicing distinction in Bengali Infant Directed Speech’ with Megha Sundara.
  2. ‘Evaluating the learnability of vowel categories from Infant Directed Speech’ with Katya Khlystova, Connor Mayer, Ann Aly, Ji Young Kim and Megha Sundara.
  • My paper titled The Curious Absence of Aspiration in Indian English: The Role of Phonetics in Adaptation [pdf] is now available in the Proceedings of the 37th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics.
  • Our collection of recordings on Adonara (Austronesian, eastern Indonesia) is now available on Paradisec.
  • I presented a poster titled ‘No Puffs Given: The Curious Absence of Aspiration in Indo-Aryan Loanwords and Indian English’ at the 17th Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP) at the University of Warsaw in February 2020.
  • My work on documenting Adonara, spoken in East Flores in Indonesia, was featured on Wayne State’s Graduate School Spotlight
  • I presented a poster titled ‘Adaptation of English Stops in Indo-Aryan Languages: The Problem of De-aspiration’ at The 24th Annual Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference held at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in October 2019.