About me

Hello! I’m a PhD candidate and phonologist in the Linguistics Department at the University of Southern California, and I am advised by Stephanie Shih.

My main research interests lie at the intersection of phonology and psycholinguistics, and one of the central goals of my work is to better understand the relationship between the lexicon and the phonological grammar. Using behavioral and computational methods, I investigate how the way we access words influences the way we say them (and vice versa).

My research examines phonological exceptionality and how it relates to stored representations, especially in the case of morphologically complex words. I am also interested in how lexical processes (e.g. lexical access) shape the input supplied to the phonological grammar, and how variables such as frequency, productivity, and phonological experience factor into these processes.

I am also a member of the Breiss Lab, where I focus on using computational modeling, corpus methods, and behavioral experiments to investigate variation in phonological processes.