My name is Cody Brimhall, and I like words. So much so, in fact, that I went and joined a Ph.D. program just to spend more time with them. I’m a first-year linguistics graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, focusing on issues of phonology and phonetics, as well as how to get some sleep from time to time. In my secret second life, I’m a web programmer for the University of California, Davis, where my work includes building tools to help get the University’s “publicly-funded” media library online and freely accessible. My hobbies include deriding the IPA, drawing syntax trees, writing Mac OS X applications, and generally just musing on the fact that I live in San Diego but never go to the beach.
Since late 2009 I’ve been working with Amalia Arvaniti in the UCSD Phonetics Laboratory, looking at the experimental validity of the hypothesis that the world’s languages can largely be classified as “stress-timed” or “syllable-timed”.