I work in phonology and some of its interfaces. My interests are fairly broad, but some recurring interests include:
Recently I've been exploring the implications of Harmonic Serialism for theories of phonological variation, in particular the different predictions that serial and parallel evaluation make for locality and globality in variation. Relatedly, I've also been thinking a bit about the role of speech rate in conditioning phonological variation.
I'm also doing some experimental work looking into the perception of (especially parasitic) vowel harmony processes, beginning some work with Michael Becker on similarity avoidance in Turkish reduplication, and exploring the role of domains and domain junctures in autosegmental spreading.
In Spring and Summer 2009, I was a Research Assistant to John McCarthy and Joe Pater. NSF Grant BCS-0813829, 2008B2012 "Investigations in Optimality Theory: Typology, Learning, and Modeling".