I am a second-year Linguistics PhD student at Linguistics and English Language within the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh.

The focus of my research is the emergence of systematic phonological patterns in the course of diachronic change. What I'm mainly interested in is the interaction of cognitive mechanisms such as analogical reasoning and categorical perception on the one hand, and phonetic and social factors on the other. My main goal is to find out how this interaction can give rise to well-known types of sound change such as Neogrammarian sound change and lexical diffusion. I'm hoping to achieve this by building computational models of language change.

I am also involved in a number of side projects, which include an investigation of the emergence of intrusive-r in English and a descriptive endeavour aimed at gaining a better understanding of a pattern of labial reduplication in Hungarian.