Sarah Lease
Ph.D candidate
Dept. of Linguistics
University of New Mexico

I am currently a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of New Mexico. I primarily utilize usage-based approaches to examine how contextualized usage shapes language variation, especially in children and adults' sound patterns. I am particularly interested in this topic as it related to bilingualism, where the question of language experience, which is necessary for these cumulative effects, takes center stage. Additionally, I am fascinated by methodologies related to operationalizing contextualized language use.