Current Interests

Mathematical Merge

I am currently working on understanding some recent work done by Matilde Marcolli, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Berwick on Merge.

This has been a challenge, but a fun one.

Logical Phonology

Taken from this tutorial given at the LSA:

Substance-Free Logical Phonology (henceforth LP) is an austere, formally rigorous theory of phonological computation drawing on: the application of ordered rules, expressed as simple logical operations over natural classes, the postulate that phonological computation is “substance-free”, and underlying representations employing a form of archiphonemic underspecification. LP is thus a theory of possible phonological processes and grammars; it also has consequences for our theories of morphophonology and phonological exceptionality.

Many great papers have already been written in the Logical Phonology framework by Charles Reiss, Kyle Gorman, Rim Dabbous, and some others!

I am currently working on a squib in LP, which attempts to analyze Poliquin's Canadian French thesis in LP (more details in future).

Videos

I sometimes make videos for my friends, but recently made one on linguistics and linguistics adjacent stuff that I enjoy in life. Check it out below: (use scrollbar at the bottom if the thumbnail is appearing too big for you to see the play button).