Muhammad Rehan

Graduate Student, Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA.

Address

Dodd 74, Dodd Hall

390 Portola Plaza

Los Angeles, CA 90034

I am a 3rd year PhD student in the Program in Indo-European Studies at UCLA. Trained as a historical linguist, Indo-Europeanist, and a phonologist, I am broadly interested in the evolution and spatial distributions of phonological features. A part of my research applies Bayesian statistical methods to model the spatial and spatio-temporal dynamics of phonological features, while another strand of research aims to develop integrative phylogenetic methods (especially sequence alignment methods) that incorporate phonological characters in phylogenetic inference. I am also interested in using phonological typology and experimental phonetics to gain insights into the synchronic and diachronic phonologies of ancient Indo-European languages.

selected publications

  1. From Points to Polygons: Modeling Spatial Autocorrelation
    Muhammad Rehan and David Goldstein
    2025
    In Preparation 
    @unpublished{rehan_points_prep,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Goldstein, David},
  title = {From Points to Polygons: Modeling Spatial Autocorrelation},
  note = {In Preparation},
  year = {2025},
  selected = {true}
}
  2. Young Infants’ Discrimination of Phonetic Contrasts Predicts Their Typological Frequency
    Muhammad Rehan and Megha Sundara
    2025
    In Preparation 
    @unpublished{rehan_infants_prep,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Sundara, Megha},
  title = {Young Infants' Discrimination of Phonetic Contrasts Predicts Their Typological Frequency},
  note = {In Preparation},
  year = {2025},
  selected = {true}
}
  3. Supervised Text Classification in Historical Linguistics: The Case of Christian Latin
    Muhammad Rehan, Valentina Lunardi, and David Goldstein
    2026
    Submitted 
    @unpublished{rehan_supervised_submitted,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Lunardi, Valentina and Goldstein, David},
  title = {Supervised Text Classification in Historical Linguistics: The Case of Christian Latin},
  note = {Submitted},
  year = {2026},
  selected = {true}
}