(Featured Image: Hamilton Pool, Dripping Springs, Texas)

(Image Description: A grotto, or picturesque cave. Several species of hanging moss are growing on the ceiling. In the background, a river flows into the grotto, creating a waterfall.)

Here are a few of my academic research interests:

• Automatic sign language recognition (ASLR)
  • Developing software tools and corpora towards ASLR
• Modeling the phonotactics of American Sign Language using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG)
• Language documentation
  • Hoa Vietnamese (i.e., Vietnamese ethnolect spoken by ethnic Chinese)
  • Huế Vietnamese
  • Lengua de señas mexicana [Mexican Sign Language] (LSM)
  • Black American Sign Language (i.e., ASL ethnolects used by attendees of {{Deaf residential schools for colored (sic) students} that existed prior to racial integration in the U.S.}) [curly brackets used for clarity]
• Sociolinguistic variation
  • Code switching
    • Intra-group and inter-group variation
• Language preservation
  • Ladino (i.e., Judeo-Spanish) and Judeo-Portuguese
  • Patuá (i.e., Portuguese-lexifier creole spoken in Macau, China)
• The Deaf community
• The DeafBlind community
  • Protactile language
• Multimodality in signed and spoken languages
• Computer vision
• Accessibility
• Diachronic change in signed and spoken languages

If you are interested in collaborating or starting a shared task, please contact me using the “Contact” link in the top navigation bar.