Alan C. L. Yu
Lab Director

Kjersti G. Stensrud
Lab Manager

Graduate Students

Juan José Bueno Holle

Juan is interested in bilingualism, language maintenance and shift, language and cognition, Meso-American languages. He is currently working on transcribing and parsing spoken Washo. Also, in joint work with Christina Weaver, Juan is also working on describing the phonetic correlates of voiced, voiceless and ejective consonants in Washo.

James Kirby

James is interested in acoustic variation in speech production & perception and the role of variation in language change. He has worked extensively on the production and perception of tone and voice quality in Vietnamese. James' dissertation work is focused on how the reweighting of acoustic cues can induce phonologization.

Alice Lemieux

Alice is a 2nd year PhD student in the Linguistics department. She is broadly interested in questions of language variation and contact-induced change, but also enjoys Hindi syntax and semantics, morphology, and spectrograms. In the Phonology Lab Alice works on the Washo documentation project. She is currently investigating the morpho-syntax of bipartite verb constructions, and the phonetics of the Washo vowel quantity distinction.

Christina M. Weaver

Christina is a second-year PhD student in the Linguistics department. Her main focus is on fieldwork, specifically phonological fieldwork, and she enjoys conducting fieldwork on any language that she can, and learning whatever she can to aid her in that fieldwork. In the Phonology Lab, Christina is a Research Assistant for the Washo Project. She spends most of her time working on the on-line dictionary, parsing words, and splicing recordings. She is also researching specific aspects of the Washo language, including Washo Vowel Harmony, Washo Wh-Movement, and Washo Kinship Terms.

Morgan Sonderegger

Morgan is a graduate student in Computer Science. He is interested in computational and mathematical approaches to studying language, especially language change, phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics. In the Phonology Lab he is working on modeling perceptual compensation effects.

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Barbara Fiedler

Barbara is a fourth year undergrad majoring in linguistics and minoring in Spanish. In terms of linguistics, she is particularly interested in phonetics and phonology. In lab currently, Barbara is working on a project in conjunction with the psychology department that's trying to track and measure the development of children's vowel spaces based on recordings made in a longitudinal study the psych department conducted a while ago. Using these recordings, they're highlighting and measuring the formants of certain vowels to see how they change over time.

Ed King

Ed King is a fourth-year undergraduate in Linguistics and Computer Science. His academic interests include contact linguistics and computational phonology/morphology. In addition to the Phonology Laboratory, Ed also works with the Chicago Language Modeling Lab.

Natalie Rothfels

Natalie is a first year potential Linguistics Major, Music minor studying Hebrew and Spanish. She enjoys drinking tea, reading for fun, and basking in Chicago's glorious winter weather.

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