I'm a sociolinguist and third-year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. My research uses variationist and creolist approaches to analyse the Singapore English post-creole continuum. I am associated with the Language Variation and Cognition Lab and Language Contact and Cognition Lab at Penn.

I'm interested in how variable pieces of language combine. In the Singapore context, do speakers freely combine variants from across the continuum? What constraints govern how those variants may be assembled?

Before coming to Penn, I received a BA in Linguistics and a BSc in Life Sciences from the National University of Singapore.