This site contains information on my research & work as a linguist and data scientist.


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About Me

My research revolves around the fields of phonetics, phonology, sociolinguistics, and quantitative methodology. A lot of my work has looked at the temporal/dynamic properties of vowel production, such as diphthongs, from both phonological and phonetic points of view. I make heavy use of the statistical coding language R for developing models of language production and visualizing the results of my analyses.

I am a graduate of the University of Manitoba (B.A. and M.A.) and the University of Victoria (Ph.D.).

I currently serve as a Research Officer for the Government of British Columbia and an Adjunct Professor of Linguistics for the University of Victoria.

I have previously taught courses in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, the University of Winnipeg, and Simon Fraser University.

My academic CV contains much more information on all of the above. I also have an industry-facing resume which emphasizes my practical skills and experience.


Research projects

I am currently involved in several active research projects which include, in no particular order:


Research output

This site hosts archived copies of most of my published or presented work going back to my 2010 master’s thesis, all of which are listed on my full CV. The list below combines peer-reviewed publications, current papers I have in some state of preparation, conference presentations, invited talks, workshops, and media interviews, in chronological order, and includes active links to copies of publications which are available for download:

Year Title (local download links) Journal / Forum / Venue (external links)
2023 A phonetic case study of Tŝilhqot’in /z/ and /zʕ/ - preprint (with Sonya Bird) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (open access)
  Cotopaxi Media Lengua vowels: A preliminary analysis (with Jesse Stewart) International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague
  Vowel raising in Cotopaxi Quichuan languages (with Jesse Stewart) International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague
2022 Prevelar vowel raising and merger in Manitoba English Journal of English Linguistics (open access)
2021 The effects of language contact on non-native vowel sequences in lexical borrowings: The case of Media Lengua (with Jesse Stewart) Language and Speech (open access)
  A multi-method approach to correlate identification in acoustic data: The case of Media Lengua (with Jesse Stewart) Laboratory Phonology (open access)
  Phonetic change in the grammaticalization of Brazilian Portuguese tipo (with Christiani Thompson) Canadian Linguistic Association
2020 The effects of language contact on non-native diphthongs in lexical borrowings: The case of Media Lengua (with Jesse Stewart) Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, New Orleans LA
  Ethnolinguistic Vowel Differentiation in Manitoba English American Dialect Society, New Orleans LA
  TRAP-raising and the Canadian/Low-Back-Merger Shift in Prairie English (accepted–did not present due to Covid19) Canadian Linguistic Association, Western University
2019 Workshop on Statistics for Linguistics University of Manitoba
  Differences In Vowel-glide Production Between L1 And L2 Speakers Of Hul’q’umi’num’ (with Sonya Bird) International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne
  Ethnolinguistic Differentiation and the Canadian Shift (with Nicole Rosen and Lanlan Li) International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne
  Acoustic Phonetics and Language Revitalization in the Hul’q’umi’num’ Community (with Sonya Bird) Prairie Workshop on Languages and Linguistics V, University of Winnipeg
2018 Best practices in automatic vowel production analysis Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, University of Auckland
  Joining the Western Region: Sociophonetic Shift in Victoria (with Rebecca Roeder and Alex D’Arcy) Journal of English Linguistics
  An Acoustic Study of Canadian Raising in Three Dialects of North American English Doctoral dissertation, the University of Victoria
2017 Canadian Raising or Canadian Shortening? Comparing and contrasting dynamic models of vowel duration Workshop on Dynamic Modeling in Phonetics & Phonology, University of Chicago
2016 Urban youth in Rio de Janeiro: Contemporary linguistic variation in Brazilian Portuguese (with Christiani Thompson) New Ways of Analyzing Variation 45, Simon Fraser University
  Yod variation in Victoria, B.C.: An acoustic-centred approach American Dialect Society, Washington DC
2015 Simultaneous Innovation & Conservation: Unpacking Victoria’s Vowels (with Rebecca Roeder and Alex D’Arcy) New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44, University of Toronto
  There’s a New Ethnolect in Town: Vowel Patterning of Filipino English in Winnipeg (with Nicole Rosen and Lanlan Li) New Ways of Analyzing Variation 44, University of Toronto
  City, province or region: What do the vowels of Victoria tell us? (with Rebecca Roeder and Alex D’Arcy) American Dialect Society, Portland OR
  Acoustic Phonetics Lab Manual (with Sonya Bird, Qian Wang and Allison Benner) Course textbook, University of Victoria
2014 The Prosodic Structure of Canadian Raising Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association
  The Prosodic Structure of Canadian Raising Canadian Linguistic Association, Brock University
  Analyzing complex vowel articulations from acoustic data Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics, University of Victoria
  Finding our voice: A primer on the Manitoba dialect (interview) David Sanderson: The Winnipeg Free Press
2010 Canadian Raising in Manitoba: Acoustic Effects of Articulatory Phasing and Lexical Frequency Master’s thesis, University of Manitoba

Works in progress:


Teaching and work experience

In addition to positions which I have held, individual academic courses which I have taught are listed below:

Year Position or Course Title Institution
2023– Adjunct Professor of Linguistics University of Victoria
2022– Research Officer Government of British Columbia
2022 Phonetics and Phonology LING-2001/ANTH-2401/ENGL-2803 University of Winnipeg
2022 Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary RHET-1105 University of Winnipeg
2022 Academic Writing: Humanities RHET-1101 University of Winnipeg
2019–2021 SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship University of Manitoba
2021 Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary RHET-1105 University of Winnipeg
2021 Topics in Linguistics: Practical Statistics for Linguistics LING 4920/7920 University of Manitoba
2021 Child Language Development LING/PSYC 3860 University of Manitoba
2021 Topics in Linguistics: Hul’q’umi’num’ Language Acquisition LING 480 Simon Fraser University
2021 Phonetics and Phonology LING-2001/ANTH-2401/ENGL-2803 University of Winnipeg
2020 Language Acquisition / Child Language Development LING/PSYC 3860 University of Manitoba
2018–2019 Research Assistant, Languages in the Prairies Project University of Manitoba
2019 Language and the Media LING 1620 University of Manitoba
2019 Phonetics and Phonology LING-2001/ANTH-2401/ENGL-2803 University of Winnipeg
2013–2017 Research Assistant, Victoria English Project University of Victoria
2014–2016 Linguistic Consultant GSD/Google
2015 Language Acquisition / Child Language Development LING/PSYC 3860 University of Manitoba
2014 Acoustic Phonetics LING 380 (Lab Instructor) University of Victoria
2014 Cognitive Neuroscience of Linguistics LING 370C (Teaching Assistant) University of Victoria
2013 Phonetics and Phonology LING-2001/ANTH-2401/ENGL-2803 University of Winnipeg
2012 Phonetics and Phonology LING-2001/ANTH-2401/ENGL-2803 University of Winnipeg
2011 Introduction to Linguistics LING-1001 University of Winnipeg
2008–2009 Freelance Writer Technologies for Learning Group
2007 General Phonetics LING 138 (Teaching Assistant) University of Manitoba
2006 Language and Gender LING 142 (Teaching Assistant) University of Manitoba
2001–2002 English (EFL) Teacher Oh Sungsik English Club



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