I am a third-year grad student working on my PhD in Linguistics at Rutgers. I'm primarily interested in phonology and its interfaces (with phonetics and morphology), signed languages, and Optimality Theory.

More specific research interests, as well as a description of my current projects, are laid out here. This semester I am teaching Ling 201 (Introduction to Linguistic Theory), and serving as a Research Assistant to Shigeto Kawahara in the Rutgers Phonetics and Field Research Laboratory.

This year I am the president of the Rutgers Graduate Student Association and vice president of the Linguistics Graduate Student Association. I also edit the department newsletter, SNARL.

If you want to know more about me, my CV [PDF] might be of interest.

LaTeX Tools

(La)TeX users might enjoy TeXTabTool - a (La)TeX tabular generator I wrote with Jonathan North Washington. I've also written SLOverline, a LaTeX macro for producing the non-manual marking overlining (and the NMM label) used in signed language linguistics.

Contact Information

Email: < abraver /æt/ rutgers.edu >
Mail: Aaron Braver
Linguistics Department
Rutgers University
18 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
My office hours are Mondays, 1:30-2:30pm, in room 301 of the Linguistics Department (map).

Personal

I like computers. There, I said it. Stop laughing - computers are cool now. I also enjoy SciFi, running (somewhat poorly), and (according to several sources) music that can best be described as "meta".

My not-infrequent use of "hella", fronted vowels, and complete inability to pronounce [ɔ] all betray my Southern California roots. My uncanny ability to avoid getting a tan, preference for stormy weather, and utter lack of interest in surfing, though, might lead to you believe otherwise.

Before coming to Rutgers, I studied linguistics and (linguistic) anthropology here.