Spanish alveolar taps in spontaneous speech: My dissertation’s first chapter investigates variability in the intensity of intervocalic alveolar taps in a corpus of conversational speech. Using Bayesian finite mixture models, we are modelling the (substantial) variation with phonetic, phonological, and lexical factors.
Spoken word recognition in bilinguals: I am currently working on a paper analyzing data from the bilingual listeners who participated in the MALD project. We are exploring how the effect of common lexical predictors may differ in bilinguals according to their experience with the language of the experiment, i.e. English.
Catalan lexical stress: For my first Generals Paper, I conducted a wordlikeness experiment investigating the nature of the Catalan stress system. This research project was presented at LSRL 50 and the Annual Meeting on Phonology 2020. My co-author Anja Arnhold and I are collecting data for a follow-up experiment.