Research Interests: phonetics, phonology, prosody, tone, experimental methods, fieldwork, African languagesPrincipal InvestigatorAssistant Professor of Linguisticskfranich@fas.harvard.edu
Research Interests: theoretical phonology, language acquisition, cross-linguistic phonological universals, vowel harmony, tonologySecond year PhD studentjiancui@g.harvard.edu
Research interests: prosodic theory, particularly tone, stress and prosodic weight in natural languageThird year PhD studentaljosamilenkovic@g.harvard.edu
Research Interests: phonology, sociolinguistics, multilingualism, L2 language acquisition, typologyHarvard College class of 2025jordan_mitchell@college.harvard.edu
Research interests: phonetics, language change, American Indigenous language reconstruction, sociolinguistics.Undergraduate Research Assistantlexiwilliams@college.harvard.edu
Research Interests: phonetics and phonology, tone and intonation, Rɨkpa’ language (Bantu).MA student at the University of Yaoundé I (Cameroon)gamfridah15@gmail.com
Research Interests: child language acquisition, atypical speech and language development, second language acquisitionPhD student at the University of Delawareanqihu@udel.edu
Research Interests: phonetics, phonology, prosodic typologies, documentation of endangered African languages PhD student at the University of Delawarevnwosu@udel.edu
Dr. Akumbu is a linguist working on phonetics and phonology of Grassfields languages, including his native language, Kejom (Babanki). Dr. Akumbu is Director of Research (DR2) in African Linguistics at the LLACAN laboratory at CNRS in Paris. He is collaborating with the lab on studying speech and co-speech gesture in Kejom. pius.akumbu@cnrs.fr
Dr. Keupdjio works on syntax and its interfaces with semantics and phonology, and is a native speaker of the Medʉmba language. He graduated with a PhD from the University of British Columbia in 2020, with a dissertation entitled The syntax of A′-dependencies in Bamileke Medumba. He currently teaches at Brescia College at Western University inhkeupdijo@uwo.ca
Dr. Lendja is a philosopher and political scientist and a native speaker of the Medʉmba language. He works with the PhonLab on aspects of Cameroonian languages and culture, helping to facilitate work with the Lafeng community of Medʉmba speakers in the west region of Cameroon. A primary focus of his research is on undocumented immigration,ablendja@yahoo.fr
Dr. Ngabeu an Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Howard University in Washington D.C., and also a native speaker of the Medʉmba language. She previously worked for ten years as the director of the Middlebury College C.V. Starr study abroad program in Cameroon. Her research focus is in Francophone literatureangabeu@gmail.com
