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- Right now my focus is on the phonetics of synchronic and diachronic variation, especially the historical development and diachronic and synchronic variation in the dental fricative.
I am also interested in usage-based, probabilistic models of synchronic phonology and their implications for sound change, and am in the middle of deciding whether I should focus on the phonetics or the numbers to contribute to building such a model.
I am also teaching and contributing to the development of the course and textbook for Ling 286 - Analyzing the sounds of language, which is a course that uses phonetics to guide students through data analysis and statistics.PowerPoint Presentations
From ICHL 2009 in Nijmegen: Putting together the pieces: An intra-disciplinary look at sound change
The powerpoint slide show as presented at ICHL 2007 in Montreal: Eth - Forsake thigh name!
- The follow-up to this project, as presented at GLAC-14: GLAC
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The new and completely different version that is (presumably) to appear in the ICHL 2007 Proceedings: Dental fricatives and stops in Germanic: deriving diachronic processes from synchronic variation
The paper that contains the phonetic analysis which was removed from the ICHL Proceedings version: (removed while under revision)
And here's a talk I gave at Canfield Hall on 10/12/08, as part of a series of talks for dorm residents: Shit & Fuck: language, morality, and politics
- Misuse of language is not so much a matter of a misplaced particle or an ill-formed verb, as it is a thwarting of the highest possible use of language, that is to allow human beings to come closer together by allowing them to bring to the outside that which is on the inside, and to see how we are all connected. A misuse of language is the intentional use of language to erect obstacles to understanding. It is the putting up of words between us in an attempt to divide, rather than bring together.
Let's begin to understand our world in terms of a new metaphor!