PhD Candidate — Department of Linguistics, UMass Amherst
I'm a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I'm interested in morphophonology and the organization of the lexicon. My current research investigates how constraint-based models can be used to analyze and learn morphophonological patterns, with an emphasis on phonological variation and exceptionality. I'm also interested in experimental research examining how speakers identify and generalize linguistic patterns to novel words.
I primarily work on Arabic varieties, with a particular focus on Moroccan Arabic — a linguistically rich context shaped by contact with Berber, French, and Spanish. This complex environment has produced variable and exceptional patterns that remain largely undocumented.
Collaborative work with Ali Idrissi, "Permeability and Stratification in the Moroccan Arabic Diglossic Lexicon", was presented at the 39th Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Indiana University, Bloomington.
"Modeling distance-based variable sibilant harmony in Moroccan Arabic with a MaxEnt grammar" was published in Arabic Linguistics.
Led a workshop on computational tools for phonological analysis as part of the MA program in Linguistics, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Mohammed V University, Rabat.
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