Phonetics, Phonology, Teaching
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I am a phonetician and phonologist currently serving as as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Boston College. Prior to this, I taught at Carleton College, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in English Language & Linguistics at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany (English, German), as part of the Speech, Language, and Modeling Lab.
I completed my Ph.D. at Yale University’s Department of Linguistics and its Phonetics Laboratory, with a dissertation on the role of tone in articulatory timing in Tibetan as spoken in diaspora. I am interested in the temporal representation of articulatory gestures, and more generally the relationships between tones and segments, language contact, sound change, and anything related to Tibetan.
To these ends, I have used a variety of methods, including field interviews, corpus methods, acoustic phonetics, and experiments with Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA). More recently, I have been working with articulatory synthesis in TADA and VocalTractLab, and have been collaborating on language-modeling projects involving probabilistic reduction.
First and foremost, however, I think of myself as a teacher. I approach teaching and mentorship as skills that require continual development like any other, and I am a member of the Special Interest Group in Scholarly Teaching of the Linguistic Society of America. I am particularly interested in Backward Design, pedagogy research, and Alternative Grading.
christopher.geissler@bc.edu
cageissler42@gmail.com