About
Emily is a 3rd year PhD student in the Linguistics Department at the University of Michigan. Her research centers on language contact and variation in Spanish-speaking populations. Currently she focuses on morphosyntactic variation and contact-induced change in Quichua-influenced Spanish varieties spoken in the highlands of Ecuador. She has recently embarked on a new research program that will use neurolinguistic techniques (EEG) to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms of U.S. listeners' perceptions of Spanish-accented English. In pursuing these research topics she draws from an exciting combination of methodologies, including sociolinguistic fieldwork, corpus analysis, experimental psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Prior to beginning her doctorate at U of M, Emily earned her undergraduate B.A. degree in Spanish, Education and International Studies at The Pennsylvania State University (2014) and was a Fulbright grantee in South Korea (2015-16).
