Welcome to my homepage. I work on language, especially on speech sounds and language change, often drawing data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages. That work includes teaching, research and outreach/service to the general public.

I have the privilege of editing Diachronica: International journal for historical linguistics. Beyond that, A History of German: What the past reveals about today's language is now in production with Oxford University Press. With Patrick Honeybone I'm finishing up editing the Handbook of Historical Phonology for Oxford University Press. Language Matters for Wisconsin, a book aimed at helping the general public understand key issues about language in our state, edited by Tom Purnell, Eric Raimy and me will appear with the University of Wisconsin Press before long. And we've now turned our attention to finishing up Modularity in phonology for Cambridge University Press. more . . .