Quick facts about me: 

1. I'm a fifth-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Kansas

2. My research interests are phonetics, phonology, and second language acquisition

3. My current line of research utilizes clear speech elicitation as a methodology to address questions about L2 categories and acoustic implementation of L2 contrasts. I'm also interested in the intelligibility benefit provided by the clear-speech enhancements and received by native and non-native listeners. 

4. On my off-time, I enjoy cooking, baking, and reading a good fiction book.