Publications
Forthcoming. [w/ Hul, N.] Khmer. In M. Ball & F. Hu (Eds.), Studies in Phonetics and Phonology: Diphthongs, Triphthongs and Polyphthongs: A Survey. University of Toronto Press.
Forthcoming. [w/ Lentz, C.] The State of Southeast Asian Studies in North Carolina. In S. Acabado & K. Gutierrez (Eds.), Southeast Asian Studies NOW.
2018. [w/ Wolf, S. & Pertsova, K.] Dialect diversity at the university: A report on the effectiveness of an educational initiative. Proceedings of SALSA XXVI.
2015. Approaching a phonological understanding of the sesquisyllable with phonetic evidence from Khmer and Bunong. In N.J. Enfield & B. Comrie (Eds.), Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia: The State of the Art. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
2014. Bunong. In M. Jenny & P. Sidwell (Eds.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages. Leiden: Brill.
2014. Deconstructing the Southeast Asian Sesquisyllable: A Gestural Account. Ph.D. dissertation. Cornell University.
2014. A Gestural Account of Minor Syllables: Evidence from Khmer. Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (2012).
2012. [w/ Tilsen, S. et al.] A Cross-linguistic Investigation of Articulatory Coordination in Word-initial Consonant Clusters. Cornell Working Papers in Phonetics and Phonology.
2006. The Pharyngeal Hierarchy. SKY Journal of Linguistics 19:229-237.
Film and Audio
50 Years Later: The American War in Vietnam. Historical, cultural, and art exhibits on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, w/ Arts&Humanities Grant Studio, Hmong Student Association, Wilson Library, Ackland Art Museum. 2025.
Migration Stories. Oral history interviews of Carrboro/Chapel Hill’s Burmese and Karen communities, with Jennifer Boehm, Talar Hso, Hikhrihay Htee, Amy Reynolds, Sofia Thein. Southern Mix Collection, Southern Oral History Program, UNC.
LING 260/ASIA 260. Oral history interviews by students on language use among Southeast Asian Americans in the US South, 2020-2025. Southern Mix Collection, Southern Oral History Program, UNC. (forthcoming)
AMST/ASIA 353. Oral history interviews by students on Southeast Asian Americans in the US South, 2023-2024. Southern Mix Collection, Southern Oral History Program, UNC. (forthcoming)
2017. Hark the Sound. Short film on dialect diversity at UNC, with Katya Pertsova.
Selected Presentations
2025. Phonological typology of Mainland Southeast Asian Languages. National University of Singapore.
2025. [w/ Gardiner, B. & Graham, A.] Adapting the Words of Ocean Vuong. Flyleaf Books.
2024. Cambodia: The Khmer Rouge and Beyond. Durham Academy.
2024. Languages of Southeast Asia. Foreign Service Institute.
2023. [w/ Shun Le Win] Modern History of Myanmar & Understanding the Experiences of Karen (K’nyaw), Chin, and Burmese Students, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
2023. [w/ Thein, S.] Organizing and social support networks in three Southeast Asian diaspora communities in North Carolina, The Nelson Lectures on Southeast Asia, University of Virginia.
2019. [w/ Boehm, J. & Reynolds, A.] Narratives of Linguistics and Belonging among Refugees from Burma. Asia Scholars Network Conference. UNC – Chapel Hill.
2019. [w/ Mora-Marin, D.] Linguistic Diversity and Linguistic Justice in the Contemporary World. Flyleaf Books Humanities in Action Series.
2018. Dialect Diversity at the University: A Report on the Effectiveness of an Educational Initiative. SALSA XXVI, University of Texas at Austin.
2018. Languages from the Highlands: An Overview of Linguistic Viability. Cambodian Highlanders Conference, UNC – Wilmington.
2016. A Comparison of Bunong Dialects through the Creation of an Audio-Visual Corpus. Carolina Asia Center, UNC – Chapel Hill.
2016. Understanding Dialect Diversity through Spectrographic Comparison: Technology as a Non-Evaluative Medium in the TESOL Classroom. Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching 8, University of Calgary.
2015. Sesquisyllables and the Communist Other: Considerations of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Area. Linguistics department invited talk, University of Georgia.
2015. Deconstructing the Southeast Asian Sesquisyllable. Friday Linguistics Colloquia, UNC – Chapel Hill.
2013. The Nonequivalence of Phonological Categories and Phonetics in Burmese. MOT Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa.
2013. Half-syllables in Two Southeast Asian Languages. Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Brown Bag Lecture Series.
2013. A Gestural Interpretation of Variation and Variability in Minor Syllables. The 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
2012. A Gestural Deconstruction of the Minor Syllable. Mainland Southeast Asian Languages: The State of the Art in 2012, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
2012. Intrusive Schwa in Khmer. The 13th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Stuttgart.
2012. A Gestural Account of Minor Syllables: Evidence from Khmer. The 48th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
2011. Unary Stress as a Result of Coupled Oscillators. The 2nd UConn Workshop on Stress and Accent.
2011. A Reanalysis of Minor Syllables: The Interaction of Word Maximality and Positional Markedness. Southeast Asian Linguistics Society XXI, Kasetsart University.
2010. Registrogenesis in Bunong: The Interaction of Phonetics and Phonology. Workshop on Sound Change, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
2010. Degar Identity and Language. Southeast Asia Program Graduate Student Symposium, Cornell University.
2010. The Sesquisyllable as a Disyllabic Word. CUNY Conference on the Word in Phonology.
2005. The Pharyngeal Hierarchy: A Solution to the Blocking of Emphasis Spread in Arabic. University of Texas at Arlington Student Conference in Linguistics.