I'm still affiliated with the University of Oregon with a courtesy research appointment, so I am still conducting lab research and publishing my findings. A textbook that I wrote with some dear colleagues (Language and Social Issues: An Investigator's Toolkit) was recently published—if you'd like to have a broad and approachable introduction to sociolinguistics with some easter eggs involving our animal companions, take a peek!

I received my Ph.D. in 2018 from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. My dissertation examined whether differing levels of experience affects how people from different language backgrounds learn root-and-pattern morphology—does speaking Arabic or Maltese help? (Spoiler alert: it doesn't—but you produce different errors!) I'm still interested in how we learn language and how the languages that we speak affect each other.

I moved to Eugene, OR in the fall of 2021 with an NSF fellowship to conduct research full time. I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Speech Perception & Production Lab (PI: Melissa M. Baese-Berk) at the University of Oregon. I continued to investigate different cognitive factors that help you learn a new language, and further developed my interests in speech perception, speech production and—yes, really—how language is used in men's professional ice hockey.

I also conduct research on whether we can use machine learning to predict the form of a broken plural in Maltese, the effects of working memory on auditory L2 sentence comprehension, and whether the Distributed Morphology framework is a good model of language processing in addition to being a good model of offline grammar. You can read more about these projects on my Research page, and send me an email if you're interested in hearing more.