Phonetics, Phonology, Teaching
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I am a phonetician, phonologist, and speech scientist currently serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the NeSST Lab at the University of Missouri, in the department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Prior to this, I taught linguistics at Boston College and 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). With NeSST Lab colleagues, I am studying how speech motor control is affected in speakers with cerebellar ataxia.
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 do what I can to continue learning and growing as a teacher. This has also led me to involvement in the Scholarly Teaching and Linguistics in Higher Ed committees of the Linguistic Society of America. I’m always excited to talk about Backward Design, pedagogy research, and Alternative Grading.
cgeissler@health.missouri.edu
cageissler42@gmail.com