• Associate Professor, Linguistics, Concordia University, 2008-present.
• Associate Professor, Linguistics, Oakland University, 2003-2008.
• Assistant Professor, Linguistics, Oakland University, 1997-2003.
• Associate in Linguistics, Harvard University, 1995-1997.
• Instructor, Linguistics, University of Southern Maine, 1995-1997.
• Lecturer, Linguistics, Boston University, Winter 1997.
• Lecturer, Linguistics, Northeastern University, Fall 1995.
• Teaching Fellow, Linguistics, Harvard University, 1988-1993.

Evidence for `Finiteness' in Telugu, Finiteness in South Asian Languages, CASTL, Tromsø, Norway June 9-10, 2011. Download handout

Aspects of Rotuman Phonetics: Implications for Rotuman Phonology (with M.\Hale), 19th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 19-21, 2011.

Against Copy Control in Telugu, UMass Workshop on South Asian Syntax and Semantics, Amherst, March 19-20, 2011. Download handout

Is Harmonic Serialism Serial Enough? (with M. Hale), Old World Conference on Phonology 8, Marrakech, Morocco, January 16-22, 2011.Download slides

Introduction to Linguistic Science (with M. Hale).  Concordia University ms. Fall 2010 edition.

Rotuman Metathesis: Establishing Order (with M. Hale), 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 20-22, 2010.

What Counts as Vowel Harmony: Synchrony, Diachrony and Epenthesis in Telugu, 6th North American Phonology Conference, Montréal, April 28-30, 2010.Download slides

Rotuman Phase Distinctions: Phonology and Syntax (but not Semantics), (with M. Hale) 11th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Aussois, France, June 22-26, 2009.Download handout

Telugu Vowel Assimilation: Harmony, Umlaut, or Neither? (with C. Dvorak) 17th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 28-30, 2009.Download handout

Do Experimental Studies Inform Theoretical Research? ms. Concordia University, 2008.Download draft ms.

The Phonetics-Phonology Interface and the Acquisition of Perseverant Underspecification, (with M. Hale) in The Oxford andbook of Linguistic Interfaces, G. Ramchand and C. Reiss (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 81-101, 2007.Download ms. version

Microvariation, Variation, and the Features of Universal Grammar, (with M. Hale and C. Reiss), Lingua 117:4:645-665, 2007.Download ms. version

Underspecification: Neutralization, and Acquisition, (with M. Hale), 13th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK, May 26-28, 2005.Download handout

Underspecification, Markedness, and the Acquisition Process, (with M. Hale and C. Reiss), 6e Journées Internationales du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Orléans, France, June 3-4, 2004.Download Handout

Anti-antigemination: Syncope and Epenthesis in Telugu, (with C. Reiss), 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, UK May 22-24, 2003.Download Handout

Transitivity and Objecthood in Rotuman, Oceanic Linguistics, 42:1: 1-18, 2003.Download Paper