Muhammad Rehan

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.

Please look around and feel free to contact me with questions about any of my work and requests for code. I am also very happy to collaborate on projects if you see something on the site that catches your eye!

historical linguistics phonological typology Bayesian phylogenetics spatial statistics experimental phonetics Indo-European philology

selected publications

From Points to Polygons: Modeling Spatial Autocorrelation

Muhammad Rehan and David Goldstein

In Preparation
```
@unpublished{rehan_points_prep,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Goldstein, David},
  title = {From Points to Polygons: Modeling Spatial Autocorrelation},
  year = {In Preparation},
  selected = {true}
}
```
Young Infants’ Discrimination of Phonetic Contrasts Predicts Their Typological Frequency

Muhammad Rehan and Megha Sundara

In Preparation
```
@unpublished{rehan_infants_prep,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Sundara, Megha},
  title = {Young Infants' Discrimination of Phonetic Contrasts Predicts Their Typological Frequency},
  year = {In Preparation},
  selected = {true}
}
```
Supervised Measurement of Christian Latin

Muhammad Rehan, Valentina Lunardi, and David Goldstein

Submitted
```
@unpublished{rehan_supervised_submitted,
  author = {Rehan, Muhammad and Lunardi, Valentina and Goldstein, David},
  title = {Supervised Measurement of Christian Latin},
  year = {Submitted},
  selected = {true}
}
```