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About Me

I’m an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the university of Kentucky. You can find out more about me and my research on my homepage.

About the title

In my variety of Philadelphia English, the diphthong /aw/ merges with /æː/ before /l/. So vowel and val both sound like [væːɫ], and sometimes vow gets into the mix as well.

Throughout grad school and a few years after, I maintained a blog called Val Systems. It’s still there, but I got out of the habit of blogging there, and eventually came to feel a bit hampered by the drafting, posting & designing process there. So now, maybe I’ll maintain Væl Space.

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