User:Joeystan

I'm a linguistics student taking a year off between my undergrad and graduate school. My main interests are Language Change and Variation, which extends out to include Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Phonology, and Phonetics. I'm also interested in Language Death, which includes Endangered Languages, Typology, with a smatter of other disciplines like Anthropology and Sociology. I lived in western Brazil for two years and got acquainted with Guarani, which I am now trying to learn. I also spent two months in Amazonian Ecuador studying Kichwa, which led to my name on a publication currently in review. I currently work with files in preparing them for a kind of e-book, and use Perl on a daily basis. I've also created program in C# that models Bart de Boer's in The Origins of Vowel Systems which simulates the inception of vowel inventories through self-organization. I've taken his model and added sociolinguistics to it, namely prestige, to simulate realistic language change in a virtual population of agents.

Most of my edits are on little-known languages. I read a lot and when I find something interesting about a language I add it to the Wikipedia page.