The best way to contact the lab as a whole is through the CLML mailing list, clml@listhost.uchicago.edu. You may also subscribe to the mailing list if you would like to receive announcements and occasional discussion about our projects and activities.

Current Lab Members

Jason Riggle, Lab Director

Jason is an assistant professor in Linguistics and a member of the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago. Jason’s primary research interests are phonology/morphology, learnability, and computational linguistics. Jason is the director of the CLML and designer of many of the algorithms that underlie Erculator.

Max Bane, Grad Researcher

Max Bane is a linguistics graduate student at the University of Chicago. He develops research software and tools for the Finite State OT and Erculator projects, and maintains various lab resources.

James Kirby, Grad Researcher

James is a Ph.D student in linguistics at the University of Chicago, having studied previously at University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of California-San Diego. In addition to working on CLML projects, he pursues research in morphology, Vietnamese, and information-theoretical approaches to linguistics.

Alice Lemieux, Grad Researcher

Alice is a first-year graduate student in linguistics at the University of Chicago. Her interests include language contact, historical and sociolinguistics, and computational approaches to linguistic questions.

Morgan Sonderegger, Grad Researcher

Morgan Sonderegger is a graduate student in Computer Science.  He is interested in mathematical and computational approaches to studying language, and outside CLML projects works on variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.

Ed King, Undergrad Researcher

Ed King is a fourth-year undergraduate in Linguistics and Computer Science. His academic interests include contact linguistics and computational phonology/morphology. In addition to the CLML, Ed also works with the UChicago Phonology Laboratory.

John Sylak, Undergrad Researcher

John is a fourth-year undergraduate in Linguistics and Slavic Languages & Literatures. He is undertaking research on the NE Caucasian language Lak and hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Linguistics. His primary academic interests include phonology, Russian, and morphology.

Past Lab Members

Jeremy O’Brien, former Undergrad Researcher

Jeremy did research on Dynamic Computational Networks (DCNs) and Connectionist Models of Morphology alongside John Goldsmith. Jeremy is now pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at UC Santa Cruz.

Robert Peachey, former Grad Researcher

Robert is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Along with the CLML, Robert works with the Washo Project and the Chicago Linguistic Society, and his primary research interests are laryngeal phonology and multi-agent systems.

Evelyn Rosas, Researcher
Evelyn is a recent graduate of the University of Chicago’s Anthropology department. She plans to travel extensively before enrolling in a doctoral program in linguistic anthropology.