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CURRENT GRADUATE STUDENTS

Anne Bakken

abakken (at) email.unc.edu

Angus Bowers

abowers (at) email.unc.edu

Ian Clayton

iclayton (at) email.unc.edu

M.A., University of Montana (2001); B.A., University of Alaska, Fairbanks (1994).

Ian has been working in the field of experimental phonetics, focusing particularly on preaspiration and other phonetic features of Scottish Gaelic. His dissertation explores aspects of the typology, perception, and historical development of preaspirated stops.

Jeff Conn

A.B. Anthropology, Occidental College (1977); Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Classics, UNC-Asheville (2001)

Jeff is a student in the Ph.D. program. His area of interest is historical linguistics, chiefly Indo-European and long-range comparison.

Lisa Domby

Lisa_Domby (at) med.unc.edu

M.S. Speech and Hearing Sciences, UNC-CH (1993)

Lisa is a second-year student whose primary area of interest is bilingual phonological acquisition.

Alice Drozdiak Earley

earleyad (at) email.unc.edu

BA Linguistics, Dickinson College (2008)

Alice is interested in prosodic phenomena in a variety of languages. Her current research aims to explore formant structure in pitch-accented diphthongs in English. She is currently TAing Ling 101.

Inmaculada Gomez-Soler

gsoler (at) email.unc.edu

Jen Griffin

jengriffin (at) email.unc.edu

Crandall Hicks

linghix (at) email.unc.edu

BA Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (2006)

Crandall's current interests include general syntax, language diachrony, bird communication, whistle speech, and Indic linguistics. He is writing his MA thesis on code switching between English and Indian languages, popularly known as Hinglish. He passes the time by practicing rare speech sounds.

Danilo Loor

daloor (at) email.unc.edu

Mary Kohn

mkohn (at) email.unc.edu

Patrick McCormick

mccormpb (at) email.unc.edu

B.S. Mathematics, University of South Carolina (2007)

Patrick is student in the MA program, currently finishing his thesis on gestural phonology and teaching Ling 101.

Victoria McGee

vmcgee (at) email.unc.edu

Katherine Packert

packert (at) email.unc.edu

Jenn Renn

jrenn (at) email.unc.edu

B.A. Government & Economics, Cornell University (2001), M.A. Linguistics, UNC-CH (2007)

Jenn is a fourth year doctoral student whose primary interests are language variation and first language acquisition. She is currently working on her dissertation and completing coursework for a minor in Quantitative Psychology. This semester she is teaching Ling 101.

Amy Reynolds

amyrey (at) email.unc.edu

Justin Rill

jrill (at) email.unc.edu

Halley Wilson

halley (at) email.unc.edu