Welcome to my homepage. I research, teach and do outreach work on language, especially speech sounds and language change, often drawing data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages.

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 the beginnings of production with Oxford University Press. With Patrick Honeybone I'm finishing up editing work on the Handbook of Historical Phonology for Oxford University Press, and with Tom Purnell and Eric Raimy, I'm now writing Modularity in phonology. more . . .