Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Email: aa21@txstate.edu
Phone: 512-245-4726
Office: ELA 258

Research Interests
Phonetics: (experimental)
Phonological acquisition

I am interested in the variability associated with the production and perception of sequences of vowel-consonant-vowel. The aim is to understand the programming principles that account for the variability as well as how coarticulatory processes are influenced by suprasegmental factors.

Language and society
Peoples and cultures of (West) Africa
I am interested in the intersection of language with society. Language encodes the life of a community and provides a lens through which we can study various aspects of the community and its inhabitants.

Courses
ANTH 3375Z Human Speech Sounds
ANTH 4830 Language & culture
ANTH 2375 Introduction to linguistics Anthropology
 
ANTH 1312 Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3322/5322 Peoples and cultures of Africa

Occasional Courses
ANTH 3375Y Human Language
ANTH 5374S Sociolinguistics [grad]
ANTH 5347T Human Speech analysis (grad)