I am a fifth-year grad student working on my PhD in Linguistics at Rutgers. I'm primarily interested in phonology and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology, which I investigate in the laboratory, as well as 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 Expository Writing (01:355:101). I am also a member of the Rutgers Phonetics and Field Research Laboratory.

This year I am co-organizer of DiRG(e) (the departmental dissertation reading group), and organizer of LUG (the departmental LaTeX Users Group).

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

News

LaTeX Tools

LaTeX users might enjoy TeXTabTool - a LaTeX 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 for this semester are Wednesdays, 3:00pm-4:00pm (and by appointment), in room 001 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.