معرفی
Kie Zuraw is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on computational and quantitative approaches to phonology, with a particular emphasis on constraint-based modeling, code-switching, loanword phonology, and language change in Austronesian languages like Tagalog, Palauan, Malagasy, and Korean.
Research Interests
- Probabilistic grammars and Harmonic Grammar
- Phonology of code-mixing and bilingualism
- Exceptional linguistic patterns and learnability
- Computational modeling of speech communities
- Phonotactic constraints and their interaction
- Prosodic structure in Austronesian languages
Her recent research output includes work on English-Spanish code-switching (2025), Maximum Entropy constraint grammars (2024), and speech planning models (2021). She has also contributed to pedagogical innovations through skills-based grading in phonology courses (2019).
Teaching and Software
Currently teaching Phonology I and Phonology of Global Pop Music at UCLA, she developed the maxent.ot R package for constraint modeling and maintains the educational tool Pheatures for phonological feature learning.
