Post-Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing
I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich). I am working with the Spoken Language Processing Group led by James Kirby. I recently received a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Cornell University in August 2023. My advisors were John Whitman and Sam Tilsen. Here is my CV.
I am interested in how languages change over time, particularly sound change. My research employs a combined approach, utilizing both historical analysis and experimental methods. My specific interests within sound change and beyond include tone and register, especially those in Southeast Asia, and length contrasts, both consonantal and vowel.
| 2024 | Re-examining initial geminates: typology, evolutionary, phonology, and phonetics. Papers from the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24). (with Francesco Burroni) |
| 2024 | Leveraging deep learning to shed light on tones of an endangered language: A case study of Moklen. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2024). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, Teerawee Sukanchanon, Warunsiri Pornpottanamas, Pittayawat Pittayaporn) | |
| 2024 | CF0 effect and articulatory strength of geminate consonants. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, James Kirby) | |
| 2024 | Effects of coda consonants on preceding vowel F0 in Eastern Khmu. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. [paper] (with James Kirby, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, Francesco Burroni) | |
| 2024 | Are long and short vowels articulatorily different? Spatial and durational effects of vowel length in Thai. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni) | |
| 2024 | Spatiotemporal Features of Bilabial Geminate and Singleton Consonants in Italian. Proceedings of the 13th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, Nicole Benker, Philip Hoole, James Kirby) | |
| 2024 | An exploratory investigation of interactions between syllabic prominence, initial geminates, and phrasal boundaries in Pattani Malay. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 54(1), 264-293. [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Pimthip Kochaiyaphum) | |
| 2024 | A Preliminary Investigation of the Phonetic Characteristics of Moklen Tones. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI). [paper] (with Warunsiri Pornpottanamas, Pittayawat Pittayaporn) | |
| 2024 | Chronology of registrogenesis in Khmer: Analyses of poetry and inscriptions. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 17(1), 46-62. [paper] | |
| 2023 | Voice quality is not an obligatory stage in tonogenesis: A case study of Eastern Khmu. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). 3036-3040 [paper] | |
| 2022 | Khmer onset voicing at the end of the 13th century: Zhenla Fengtu Ji revisited. Cahier de Linguistique Asie Orientale 51(2), 175-208. [paper] [pre-printed paper] | |
| 2022 | Unifying Initial Geminates and fortis stops via laryngeal specification: Three case studies from Pattani Malay, Salentino, and Dunan. Proceedings of the 2021 Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, Raksit Lau-Preechathammarach) | |
| 2021 | Functional Load modulates speech production, but not speech perception: Evidence from Thai vowel length. Proceedings of the 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni) | |
| 2020 | A new look at Pattani Malay Initial Geminates: a statistical and machine learning approach. Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference in Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC). [paper] (with Francesco Burroni, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Pimthip Kochaiyaphum) | |
| 2019 | Length contrast of high vowels in the Thai language of the Sukhothai period: What do the inscriptions say?. Cahier de Linguistique Asie Orientale 48(1), 30-60. 2019. [post-printed paper] |
| 2023 | Synchrony and diachrony of vowel quality difference across register in Mon-Khmer languages [full-text] | |
| 2016 | Vowel length contrasts in the language of Sukhothai period (in Thai) [full-text] |
Coming soon!
Aside from the projects above, I am also interested in etymology. I sometimes write short squibs on the etymology of Thai words and post them on a facebook page. I have a black doggo, Simba, who sometimes has to listen to me and my collegues practice our talks.
