On April 21, 2025, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation.

Title: Compensatory Cues of /s/ Reduction in Voiced Stop Consonants in Western Andalusian Spanish

My dissertation explores the role of phonetic gradience and perceptual thresholds in the emergence of compensatory voiced fricatives (CVFs) following coda /s/ loss. It combines production, perception, and computational approaches to model how gradient features contribute to category formation in Western Andalusian Spanish.

Full dissertation available via ProQuest:

Figure: Slide from the dissertation defense presentation.