Karee Garvin

Karee Garvin is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's Department of Linguistics, working on Professor Franich's NSF-funded project Speech and Communicative Timing Across Languages and Linguistic Contexts. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from UC Berkeley (2021) and has conducted extensive fieldwork on under-studied languages like Nafaanra (Senufo, Ghana) and Mam (Mayan, Guatemala).

Research Interests:

• Phonetics-Phonology Interface
• Speech Coordination and Syllabification
• Q-Theory Applications
• STAMP Morphology Typology
• Articulatory Timing and Gesture Alignment
• Information-Theoretic Biases in Typology

Her recent work leverages Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA) data to model syllabic variability in English and cross-linguistic rhythm patterns. She collaborates on projects analyzing jaw oscillation, co-speech gestures, and phonological encoding mechanisms.