Research topics
Phonology
- Intonation and Pragmatics
- Variation in intonation
- Variation and evolution of word accent
- Prosody of function words
Semantics
- Semantics of motion verbs
- Verbal argument structure in language contact
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Semantics of nominalizations
Contact linguistics
- Spanish, Portugese and French outside of Europe
- Prosody of Spanish in contact with Quechua
- Prosody of French in contact with Vietnamese
- Motion verbs in Romance based creole languages