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Professor of Linguistics

Teacher standing in front of classroom. Students sitting at desks looking at the teacher.
Photo credit: John Kelly, Boise State University

This year marks my 18th year as a linguistics faculty member at Boise State University. My areas of specialty in linguistics are phonetics, phonology, psycholinguistics, and language documentation. I also actively engage in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In addition to classroom teaching, I am the founding director of the Mary Ellen Ryder Linguistics Lab, and the inaugural chair of the Department of Linguistics. During the 2026-2027, I’ll be co-PI on the Tater Talk: English in Idaho project.