2017: Жууку, Кыргызстан
Photo: Эркин Кубатов
Photo: Эркин Кубатов
2014: Gullfoss, Ísland
Photo: Filip Petkovski
Photo: Filip Petkovski
2013: Half Moon Bay, California, USA
Photo: Dani Vargas
Photo: Dani Vargas
2007: Жети-өгүз, Кыргызстан
Photo: self
Photo: self
2006: Snoqualmie falls, Washington, USA
Photo: Sanobar Khotamova
Photo: Sanobar Khotamova
2006: Нарын обулусу, Кыргызстан
Photo: Doug Gemin
Photo: Doug Gemin
| office hours: | T 1:30-3:00 (fall 2017) W 1:30-3:00 |
| office: | Pearson 105 |
| e-mail: | jwashin1 [æʔ] swarthmore [dɑɾ] edu |
| phone: | +1 (610) 957-6134 |
Main areas of research
- Turkic languages, especially Kazakh and Kyrgyz
- Articulatory and acoustic properties of vowel systems
- Sonority and syllable margin phonology
- Language technology for under-resourced languages and computational implementations of grammatical patterns: finite-state morphology and phonology, dependency syntax
- The history of the Turkic languages, comparative Turkic linguistics
Education
| Ph.D. | Linguistics, Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) | Indiana University, 2016 |
| MA | Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS) | Indiana University, 2012 |
| MA | Linguistics | University of Washington, 2010 |
| BA | Linguistics, Anthropology | Brandeis University, 2005 |