My name is Margaret N. Ransdell-Green. I have a PhD in Linguistics (2022) from the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I defended my dissertation, titled “Kala Phonology in a Typological and Regional Context” in October 2022. My research focuses are language documentation, phonology, phonetics, typology, and historical linguistics. My dissertation includes the first detailed phonological description of the Kala language (Austronesian, Western Oceanic) of Papua New Guinea. It also includes three quantitative acoustic phonetic studies on dynamic sound change processes in Southern Kala, as well as a typological overview of the phonologies of 50 languages in the region and how Kala fits into this wider context.
Outside of linguistics, I enjoy hiking, baking, metalsmithing, archery, camping, reading, creative writing, poetry, tea culture, traveling, technology (computer science and programming), and learning about history and anthropology. I live in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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