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  • I will be attending the 4th International Conference on the Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages (CIRLIM IV) on September 12-14 in Kyoto, Japan. I will be a part of the joint presentation ‘Mitientsi kuajperakuechani: Translating and disseminating legal information for the P’urhépecha diaspora in the US’ with my colleagues from UCSB. Hope to see you there!

Hello!

I am a linguist, and my research has largely centered around the language spoken by the Indigenous Tao/Yami islanders of Orchid Island, southeastern Taiwan. I am a PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I am a member of the SPArK Phonetics Lab led by Dr. Argyro Katsika and the Language Documentation Lab led by Dr. Marianne Mithun, and I am an assistant director of the OLA (Ortografías en Lenguas Aborígenes) Lab led by Dr. Eric W. Campbell. I also regularly teach linguistics courses at the undergraduate level.

My research spans several different areas of linguistic inquiry. Here are a few topics I have worked on to greater detail:

  • Acoustics and grammatical functions of word stress and prosodic prominence
  • The expression of information structure (topic and focus)
  • Case marking systems, specifically non-core case categories
  • Clause chaining and other complex clause linkage strategies

Prior to my journey into academic & linguistic research, I was (and still am!) a classical flutist. During my musical career, I particularly enjoyed performing as an orchestral musician, and I was especially fond of performing opera.

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