Welcome

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University, where I’m also a member of the Mind, Brain, Behavior faculty initiative and a faculty affiliate of the Center for African Studies. I direct the Harvard PhonLab. In my research, I examine patterns in speech acoustics, articulation, and perception in order to understand how language is structured, how it is used in communication, and how it gets passed on from one generation to the next. Much of my work draws on data from Niger-Congo languages. This includes Medʉmba, a Grassfields Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, on which I have been conducting fieldwork since 2010. You can find out more information about the research projects I am currently working on here.