On October 28, I presented an invited talk at Berkeley Linguistics’ Fieldwork Forum. The talk was titled “Fieldwork on Language in Social Interaction.” The abstract: This talk discusses how fieldworkers can collect data about language use in conversation and other forms of informal social interaction. First, I motivate the discussion by showing how data from […]

I’ve written a number of scripts to add functionality to the popular linguistic/media annotation application ELAN. These scripts are now publicly available, along with other resources I’ve created for using ELAN, on the ELAN Scripts page. If you’re after just the scripts, find the most recent versions at this Github repository. Resources are by me, […]

I presented a talk titled “Co-speech pointing gestures by Ticuna speakers: A corpus study” at the 2020 annual meeting of SSILA (Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas). Access the slides here.

On July 15, 2019, I started a two-year postdoctoral fellowship supported by the NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program. The project title is ‘Language acquisition and joint attention.’ During the project, I will be affiliated with Linguistics at UT Austin (sponsored by Pattie Epps) and with Language Development at the MPI for Psycholinguistics (sponsored by […]

I filed my dissertation, titled ‘Spatial and non-spatial deixis in Cushillococha Ticuna,’ in June 2019. The dissertation is available open access via UC eScholarship here.