Current Students
Ijeamaka Anyen
Yale College ‘15
Major(s):
- As a freshman at Yale, Ijeamaka’s interests in linguistics have not yet completely settled. As of right now she is exploring her interests in historical linguistics through data entry and possibly linguistic variation as shown through the different words for numerals.
Daniel Hansen
Yale College ‘12
Major(s): Linguistics
- Dan is a senior in Berkeley College studying Arabic and researching a thesis on language death and revitalization. He began working with Claire Bowern as a student in her Field Methods class, in which he and his classmates compiled a brief English dictionary of Pwo Karen. Since then, Dan has been interested in language documentation and preservation. He is excited to be a part of this project, and wishes he spoke a language with 20 cases.
Jessica Hsieh
Yale College ‘12
Major(s): Linguistics
- Jessica joined the Pama-Nyungan lab in fall 2011, and is enjoying getting to know a new language family. She is writing her senior essay for the linguistics major on the alignment of gesture and intonation in Pwo Karen, a tonal Tibeto-Burman language. Previously, she assisted with acoustic phonetics research under Prof. Jelena Krivokapic.
Ramon Lorenzo Labitigan
Yale College ‘13
Major(s): Linguistics, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
- Lorenzo is a junior at Yale double majoring in linguistics and molecular biophysics and biochemistry (MB&B). He joined the Pama-Nyungan project in fall 2011. He is interested in Philippine languages.
Hannah LaPalombara
Yale College ‘13
Major(s): Linguistics
- Hannah is a junior linguistics major from Philadelphia. She has been working on the Pama-Nyungan project since spring 2011, mostly on data entry and grammar coding. Currently, she is looking at the semantics of compounding in a few languages.
Tyler Lau
Yale College ‘12
Major(s): Linguistics
- Tyler is a senior linguistics major from New York City. He joined the Pama-Nyungan lab in the summer of 2010. His research interests lie in historical linguistics, particularly in historical morphology, and in fieldwork and documentation. Areally, he is particularly interested in Korean and the Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) languages. He is currently working on reconstructing the Tasmanian languages through the unfortunately sparse data that is available.
Katie Ruffing
Yale College ‘13
Major(s): Linguistics, English
- Katie is a member of the class of 2013, pursuing a double major in English and Linguistics. She has always been interested in endangered languages and hopes to travel and conduct linguistic fieldwork after graduation. Because she loves learning words she has never heard before, she’s very excited to begin work on Australian languages in Professor Bowern’s lab.
Catherine Sheard
Yale College ‘12
Major(s): Mathematics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Catherine is in her third year working with Australian Hunter-Gatherer Languages, about to finish up a project on the etymological patterning of ethobiological vocabulary and begin working on a project on language and genetic co-evolution. Her training is in biology and mathematics, however, and not necessarily linguistics (her senior thesis is about global trait biogeography in birds). She is particularly intrigued by the connections between the fields of evolutionary biology and historical linguistics.
Amalia Skilton
Yale College ‘13
Major(s): Linguistics, Classics- Greek
- Amalia Skilton is a junior majoring in linguistics and Greek. She first developed an interest in linguistics through studying Greek dialects, and became involved in this project after taking Claire Bowern and Erich Rounds’ Australian languages seminar. Amalia’s main interests are historical linguistics and language contact.
Claire Wallace
Yale College ‘12
Major(s): Linguistics
- Claire is a senior Linguistics major from New York. She joined the Pama-Nyungan project in the fall of 2011. She has been working on color terms in Pama-Nyungan languages, a topic that also serves as the basis for her senior essay.