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Graduate Student, Program in Indo-European Studies

M.A. in Indo-European Studies

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Classics (with Distinction)

B.A. in Classics (Hons.) and German Studies (Hons.)

Supervised Measurement of Christian Latin.

E-lorgesailie: An Agent-Based Simulation Model of Acheulean Lithic Raw Material Procurement and Handaxe Deposition Patterns.

The Estuarine Ecological Knowledge Network: Future Prospects.

Re-evaluating the Word-Medial Operation of the Saussure-Hirt Effect in Greek.

Gk. μοιχός 'adulterer': Re-mixing a Piss-Poor Etymology

Vowel-to-vowel coarticulation is language specific and modulated by phonology.

Infants' discrimination of sound pairs predicts their occurrence in the world's languages.

Positional asymmetries in consonantal sound change.

A tool to derive P-map constraints from infants' discriminability of phonetic contrasts.

Modeling alphabet diffusion and community interactions in ancient Italy with spatiotemporal point processes.

Language contact is not consistently associated with increased feature economy.

MoPSoS: Introduction to the database of Ancient Greek morphology, prosody, syntax and scansion.

Spatiophylogenetic modeling provides new insights into feature economy.

Point processes and spatiotemporal modeling of alphabet spread in ancient Italy.

The phonetic value of Avestan <å>.

Why do languages have the sounds they do? Insights from infant experiments and phylogenetic modeling.

Discerning segmental stability using phylogenetic models.

From points to polygons: Modeling spatial autocorrelation.

Lexical stress and syllable weight in Hindi-Urdu pop text-setting.

Investigating lexical stress in Hindi-Urdu pop music.

The development of word-final stops in Hittite.

Synchronic phonetic variation drives diachronic sound change: Further evidence from pre-nasal raising in Young Avestan.

Converging computational evidence against an East-Germanic clade.

Issues of lexical cognacy encoding in IE-CoR.

Population size has a weak effect on phoneme inventory size.

Re-evaluating the word-medial operation of the Saussure-Hirt effect in Greek.

Word-final voicing in Hittite?

Re-mixing a piss-poor etymology: On Gk. μοιχός and OE (ge)māh.

Towards an integrative approach to the investigation of linguistic phylogenies.

FSAs, FSTs and sequence alignment in phylogenetic studies: The case of Tocharian B.

Why are some words more stable than others? Bayesian modeling of lexical replacement in Indo-European.

How can experimental psycholinguistics and diachronic phonology help us learn languages?

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Origins and nature of food vocabulary in English.

Historical linguistics.

Karma is the breeze in my hair on the weekend: Sanskrit loanwords into English.

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• Keck Summer Graduate Fellowship

• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award

• Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies

• UCLA/Keck Humanistic Inquiry Research Award (shared with Tom Francis, Klaus Kim, and Laura McLean)
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award

• Institute for the Study of Global Antiquity Fellowship

• Society for Classical Studies Lionel Pearson Fellowship

• Joan Palevsky Chair Post-Baccalaureate Scholarship in Classics

• CAMWS Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classical Studies
• Gus and Elfie Kalfass Prize for Excellence in German Studies

• Gerald W. LaLonde Fellowship in Classical Studies
• UC Berkeley Intensive Greek Workshop Fellowship

• Institute for Global Engagement Summer Language Study Scholarship

Ninth Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology, Potsdam

LSA Summer Institute, University of Oregon

CreteLing 2024

Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics

UC Berkeley

Humboldt Universität

Universität Leipzig

Webmaster, Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA

Seminar Organizer, DataX, UCLA

Abstract Reviewer, Southern California Undergraduate Linguistics Conference

Graduate Seminar Organizer (with Aidan Holmgren), Program in Indo-European Studies, UCLA

Mentor, Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus

Organizer, UCLA Indo-European Conference

Graduate Student Association Representative, UCLA Undergraduate Council

Co-Chair, Grinnell College Classical Studies Student Education Policy Committee

Co-Chair, Grinnell College German Studies Student Education Policy Committee

American Society for Premodern Asia

Linguistic Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

Indogermanische Gesellschaft

Society for Classical Studies

Classical Association of the Middle West and South

Mind your Language, Mister! A Case Study in Aristophanic Humor.

Between Need, Want, Material and Innate Beauty: Tracing Shades of Erōs.

Gendered Language in Aristophanes' Birds.