Rhosean Asmah is a second-year PhD Student in the Linguistics department. Before grad school, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania and later worked at the University of Maryland. In general, her research focuses on phonetics and its intersections with sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Right now, she has a research project focusing on the phonetic characteristics of rap music, where she studies rappers like Megan Thee Stallion and Doechii. Outside of school, she does art (screenprinting, bookmaking, zines!) and (tries to) read.
Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, sociophonetics, sociosyntax, corpus methods, language contact, multilingualism, language planning, language and ethnicity, Yiddish, Jewish language varieties
Syntax, semantics, morphosyntax, language variation and change, historical and comparative linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Alaska Native and Native American languages (especially Aleut, Crow, Hidatsa, and Northern Pomo)
Anthropological linguistics, typology, documentation and description of Amazonian languages, South American historical and contact linguistics, language revitalization
