Research

On this page you will find information about current research projects that I am working on. I also include some information on past research projects or research that I am not currently working on. 

Sociolinguistics Lab

I am currently a Research Fellow in BU's Sociolinguistics Lab. My research investigates morphosyntactic variation in Spanish-English Bilinguals' speech. This research will also be the topic of investigation for my Dissertation.

PAMLab

I am currently conducting research in the Phonetics, Acquisition, and Multilingualism Lab (PAMLab). My work includes coding and analyzing phonetic features of Asian American speech production, as well as finalizing orthographic transcriptions of sociolinguistic interviews. 

Active Research Projects

Morphosyntactic Variation
Sociolinguistics Lab

This research project investigates the extent to which theories Usage-Based Grammar relate to Variationist Sociolinguistics through the study of Spanish Subject Personal Pronouns. 

Cross-Linguistic Pragmatics
LiSLab

This research project investigates the cross-linguistic differences in scalar implicature calculation in Spanish, English, Russian, Persian, and Arabic. ​

Sociophonetics Study of Asian American Speech Production in Boston
PAMLab

This research project is the topic of my second Qualifying Paper in the PhD program at BU. 

Previous Research Projects 

2019 - 2021 - This project investigated whether consenting in situations of uneven power dynamic are true acts of consent and incorporated computational modeling of consent using the Rational Speech Act framework.
Summer 2020 -  I had the opportunity to work as a Graduate Research Assistant on the Spanish in Boston project. This research project analyzes the effects of language contact on the production of Spanish Coda /s/. 
​Summer 2019 -  I had the opportunity to work with a team of researchers to develop a model that generates referring expressions for objects in complex images.