hello!
Did you know that in Idi, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea, there are different words for hello depending on the distance between the two speakers?

Although I'm typing this in Boston
- and you may be anywhere in the world - this virtual interaction between the two of us allows for the closest of the hellos:
mer yebdo!

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Mer yebdo! My name is Kate.
I'm an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University and I specialize in the documentation and preservation of languages like Idi. I invite you to explore my thoughts on research, teaching and service, or catch up with me by visiting my academic & travel news.

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Upcoming Talks

11 May 2022 - A corpus based analysis of Chuvash Stress @ Abralin ao Vivo (link: http://aovivo.abralin.org/en/)

Recent News

16 March - Visiting Scholarship: Harvard University
27 Jan - Poster: Coronal stops in Kawam: sound change and phonetic variation
17 Dec - Talk: Language Corpora and Documentation: A Guide to the Ende Corpus @ LDLT
17 Dec - Talk: Coronal stops in Kawam: sound change and phonetic variation @ LDLT
17 Dec - Invited talk: The Pahoturi River Language Documentation Project @ Seoul National University
10 Dec - Invited talk: Phonological puzzles in two under-researched languages @ University of Delaware
3 Nov - Invited talk: Linguistic fieldwork in Papua New Guinea @ Georgia Institute of Technology
15 Oct - Invited talk: Data management for linguists for Linguistics Department Colloquium @ University of Rochester
1 Oct - Talk: Variation off the beaten path @ New Ways of Analyzing Variation Symposium​
1 Oct - Talk: Investigating an emergent style in Ende @ New Ways of Analyzing Variation Symposium

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