BioOriginally growing up in Atlanta, Georgia, I am currently a Phd Student in Germanic Linguistics at Indiana University. My primary academic interests include Phonetics, Phonology and Historical Linguistics. In the past, I have served as an AI for Undergraduate German and Undergraduate Dutch courses. Additionally, I have spent two academic years in Germany: one in Freiburg as an undergraduate student and one in Marburg as a DAAD study scholarship recipient. In 2014 and 2017, I served as a Graduate Assistant to IU's summer study abroad program in Graz, Austria. In 2015, I was a student at the Taalunie's zomercursus in Zeist, Netherlands (Read more about the zomercursus here).
Some of my most recent research projects include: Vowel Prothesis before /r/ revisited: Acoustics and Typology; Prefixless past participles in West Central German: Phonology or Perfective aspect?; l-rounding in the Dialect of Graz. The latter of those projects is my dissertation project, which seeks to investigate the phonetic and phonological motivation for the process of l-rounding in Austria, where front vowels become front rounded vowels when an /l/ follows. Though my primary research interests lie within Germanic languages, I have had experience with other languages, including Sanskrit, French, Spanish, Latin, Ukrainian and Old Church Slavonic, such that I do find myself on occasion interested in questions of Indo-Iranian, Romance or Slavic linguistics. |
CVFind a copy of my CV here: bolter_cv2024.pdf
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