[maɪ̯kl̩ heɪ̯z]

I’m a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I’m interested in phonology, poetry, Basque, and history.

Writing

• Quantifying Aspiration in Zuberoan Basque. With José Ignacio Hualde, for Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca “Julio de Urquijo” (ASJU). (Accepted April 2026)
• Raddoppiamento Sintattico and related sandhi in Logical Phonology (lingbuzz). (April 2026)
• Computing Rhyme: A Tier-Based Strictly Local Approach to Poetic Rhyme as Harmony. With Scott Nelson, for Glossa. (In progress)
• Sounds, the same but different: A Tier-Based Strictly Local Unification of English Rhyme and Chinese Tonal Contrast in Poetry. (In progress)

Presenting

• Poetic Rhyme as a Tier-Based Strictly Local Constraint. Poster at the 2026 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting (LSA), New Orleans (with Scott Nelson). January 2026.
• Aspiration and its Historical Sources: Quantifying Aspiration in Zuberoan Basque. Talk at the First International Conference on the History of Basque (ICHB1), University of the Basque Country. November 2025.
• Computing Rhyme. Talk at the 2025 Rutgers Subregular Morphophonology Workshop, Rutgers University. November 2025.
• Aspiration and its Historical Sources: Quantifying Aspiration in Zuberoan Basque. Poster at the 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference (MidPhon 29), Indiana University. October 2025.
• Tell it to me straight: Refusals in comparative pragmatics. Talk at Pragmatics and Language Learning (PLL), Indiana University. November 2024.

Alphabetter app for IPA input

I built a free app for macOS. Check it out on GitHub.