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
- I presented The Perception of Incompletely Neutralized /t/ and /d/ Flaps in American English (poster) at NELS 42 in Toronto, November 11–13, 2011. [poster | handout]
- I presented on (Im)perceptible Incomplete Neutralization: Two experiments on Flapping in American English at RUMMIT II, the meeting of Rutgers, UMass, and MIT phonologists on May 16, 2011.
- I was awarded a Mellon Summer Research Grant supporting research on "Perception of /t/ and /d/ in American English Flapping" over the summer of 2011.
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 |
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.