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This is me rounding Devil's Elbow in the 2003 Mt. Diablo Challenge. It is a bicycle race near the Bay Area, and I was one of 9 unicyclists in the pack that year. The total distance was 10.8 miles and the gain in elevation was 3,249 feet (my time 2:10).

CV
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Research
I'm a fourth-year graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Linguistics Department. My advisor is Bill Labov (download my thesis proposal). I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2002 with a double major in Linguistics and Classical Languages. My current research projects include:

• dialect contact and the North / Midland boundary in Western PA
• automatic identification and classification of American English dialects
• call classification for automated troubleshooting
• the influence of AAVE on Puerto Rican English

Publications

• 2008. Classifying and clustering dialects of North American English. Proceedings of NESCAI 2008. [pdf]
• in press. The phonetic realization of pitch accent in Huave. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Berkeley Linguistics Society. [pdf]
• 2007. (with David Suendermann and Roberto Pieraccini) Call classification for automated troubleshooting on large corpora. Proceedings of ASRU 2007.
• 2007. How to formalize variation: Stochastic OT models and /s/ deletion in Spanish. Proceedings of LACUS 33, Linguistic Association of Canada and the US. [pdf]
• 2007. Book note for American English: dialects and variation. Language in Society 36(1):7-8.
• 2006. (with Tonya Wolford) Features of AAVE as Features of PRE: A Study of Adolescents in Philadelphia. Selected Papers from NWAV 34, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, v. 12.2.
• 2005. (with Giang Nguyen) Papers from NWAVE 32, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, v. 10.2.