Teaching
2006 Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Graduate advising
The grad students that I am fortunate enough to supervise (directly or indirectly) often do far more interesting research than I do. Here are some of the most recent such students, in alphabetical order:
Nicoleta Bateman, Ph.D. 2007. (Main advisor: Sharon Rose)
Nicoleta's dissertation was on the typology of palatalization. She's now on the Liberal Studies faculty at CSU San Marcos.
Rebecca Colavin, fifth year student.
Rebecca is currently merging her interests and skills in computational linguistics, psycholinguistics and phonology/phonetics with the help of a CRL predoctoral training fellowship.
Cynthia Kilpatrick, Ph.D. 2009.
Cindy has recently completed her dissertation, on the problem of learning a subset grammar of phonotactics in second language acquisition. She's now on the Linguistics & TESOL faculty at UT-Arlington.
Bożena Pająk, fourth year student.
Bożena is currently thinking about perceptibility and word recognition in second language acquisition.
Graduate courses taught
- Introductory Phonology (LIGN 211A; F00, W07, W08)
- Nonlinear Phonology (LIGN 211B; W01, W03, W04, S05, W06, S07, W09, S10)
- Issues in Phonology: The Cycle in Phonological Theory (LIGN 213; S02)
- Issues in Phonology: Spanish Phonology (LIGN 213; W04)
- Topics in Phonology: Assimilation (LIGN 215; F05)
- Topics in Phonology: Variation (LIGN 215; S10)
- Field Methods: Chuukese (LIGN 240; W02)
- Psycholinguistics: Optionality in Language (LIGN 270 / PSYC 244; S03, with Vic Ferreira)
Undergraduate courses taught
- Languages and Cultures of America (LIGN 8; S07, S08, S09)
- The Linguistics of Invented Languages (Freshman Seminar, LIGN 87; S03)
- The Threat of Texting and Other Language Myths (Freshman Seminar, LIGN 87; W09)
- Introduction to the Study of Language (LIGN 101; F02, F03)
- Phonetics (LIGN 110; F00, F03, F05)
- Phonology (LIGN 111; W01, W05, W06, W07, W10)
- The Structure of Spanish (LIGN 143; F01, F02, F07)
- Sociolinguistics (LIGN 175; F07)
- Languages in Competition (INTL 101; F08, with Sharon Rose)
Contact information
e-mail
phone / voice mail
(858) 822-3206
dept. fax
(858) 534-4789
snail mail
9500 Gilman Drive, #0108
La Jolla, CA 92093-0108
Fall 2009
DGS Office hours: M 10am-12pm
Winter 2010
LIGN 111, Phonology
Office hours: TBA
Spring 2010
LIGN 211B, Nonlinear Phonology
LIGN 215, Topics in Phonology
Office hours: TBA
Site last updated: October 2009