About me
I am a linguist and I mainly work in theoretical phonology.
My main research interest is the phonology-morphology interface and hence phenomena like non-concatenative morphology and lexical exceptions to phonological processes. Much of my work focusses on supra-segmental processes involving like length, tone or template effects. One theoretical assumption I am currently working on a lot are Gradient Symbolic Representations and hence the idea that all linguistic elements have gradient activity levels.
One empirical focus of my work are indigenuous languages of America: I work, for example, on tone in Otomanguean, on non-concatenative morphology in Salishan, on verbal agreement in Algonquian, on lexical exceptions in Maipurean, or reduplication in Wakashan.
News
I'm looking forward to my talk `Morphological asymmetries as a result of cyclic optimization: Hidatsa as an argument for Harmonic Layer Theory' at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting on May 25th, 2023. The slides for this talk can be found here.
I'll be on maternity leave from July 3rd, 2023 until February 2024.
I am a linguist and I mainly work in theoretical phonology.
My main research interest is the phonology-morphology interface and hence phenomena like non-concatenative morphology and lexical exceptions to phonological processes. Much of my work focusses on supra-segmental processes involving like length, tone or template effects. One theoretical assumption I am currently working on a lot are Gradient Symbolic Representations and hence the idea that all linguistic elements have gradient activity levels.
One empirical focus of my work are indigenuous languages of America: I work, for example, on tone in Otomanguean, on non-concatenative morphology in Salishan, on verbal agreement in Algonquian, on lexical exceptions in Maipurean, or reduplication in Wakashan.
News
I'm looking forward to my talk `Morphological asymmetries as a result of cyclic optimization: Hidatsa as an argument for Harmonic Layer Theory' at the 30th Manchester Phonology Meeting on May 25th, 2023. The slides for this talk can be found here.
I'll be on maternity leave from July 3rd, 2023 until February 2024.
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Most recent projects
Together with Prof. Dr. Jochen Trommer, I am the PI of the project `Morphological strata of tone' (homepage) within the DFG-funded research unit on `Cyclic Optimization' that started in October 2021. I am the leader of an Emmy Noether research group on `Grammatical Strength in Prosodic Morphology: Typology and Theory' (homepage) that started in May 2019. From March to November 2018, I was a Visiting Researcher at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, with a DFG-funded research project on `Multiple Reduplication: Typology and Theory' (homepage). |
CONTACT
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[my first name][dot][my last name][at][uni-leipzig][dot][de]
When I'm not doing linguistics, I love to spend time outdoors, especially on my bike or on a climbing wall. Since I also love to make lists and maps, here is a map of all the climbing spots (indoors and outdoors) I visited so far:
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