Undergraduate Emily Knick ’23 featured in UMass news story

Undergraduate linguistics major and experimental labs manager Emily Knick ’23 has been featured in the UMass news story Probing the Mysteries of Language, written by UMass Director of Research Communications, Lauren Rubenstein. The news story brings out Emily’s passion for linguistics research and discusses Emily’s honors thesis project on an in-progress sound change in Japanese plosives, which is being directed by faculty member John Kingston. Congratulations Emily!

Surrounded by phonetics recording equipment, Linguistics major Emily Knick ’23 contemplates the voice onset time of a Japanese plosive in Praat while ensconced in a nook of the linguistics department. Photo credit: John Solem