Current research:

• Language, gender, and ideology in online feminist discourse
• Language ideology and bilingualism in US politics
• Nonstandard abbreviations: a function of space constraints or style?

Past research:

• Semantics of aspect in African American English
• Politeness and aggression in political speech, especially as encoded in reference and direct address of political adversaries
• Verlan and ethnic identity formation in France
• Noun class morphology in Medumba, a Grassfields language spoken in Cameroon (with Dr. Cathy O’Connor and other BU students)
• Stress/syllable timedness categorization (with Dr. Jonathan Barnes and other BU students)
• Effects of prosody on perception of center-embedded sentences (with Dr. Janet Fodor and other CUNY students)