Who I am professionally:

I have studied linguistics (MA 1997 University of California, Santa Cruz), German (BA 1994 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), and mathematics (BS 1982 University of Texas at Austin, MA 1987 University of Wisconsin-Madison).

My linguistic interests are centered on the theory of grammar (i.e. the formal description of linguistic processes) and its application to work in natural language processing. The applications of greatest interest to me are speech recognition, and production and machine translation. Thus my theoretical interests include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics, but my focus is phonetics and phonology.

I’m also interested in the nature of linguistic frameworks. Since language use is do-able in real time (an empirical fact), one criterion for any theory that seeks to explain language is that it explain how it is do-able in real time.

From April of 1997 to September of 2002 I was an at-home-parent and primary caregiver for my daughter. As a result, I have developed an interest in how we learn and what techniques of “teaching” actually help the “student” learn. For a while we were considering homeschooling for our daughter’s education after age 5, but we decided to enroll her in school and have me get a job outside the house.

During the Fall term of 2000 I taught College Algebra part-time at Elmira College.

My résumé is available online.

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