New Graduate Students in Linguistics
Eric Brown graduated 4 years ago from UC Berkeley in linguistics and is originally from Southern California. He is interested in language contact and theories of language change, specifically with the languages of Southeast Asia, separated language communities, and variants of Portuguese. He’s spent the past few years working and volunteering at a youth crisis line, teaching in Japan, and working at Pfizer here in Ann Arbor.
David Medeiros is interested in syntax and first language acquisition.
Joseph Tyler has interests primarily in interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and conversation analysis. He earned his BS in Languages with a major in German from Georgetown University
Jonathan Yip is interested in phonetics, phonology, and the phonetics/phonology interface. In 2006, he received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, concentrating in Linguistics and German