Emma Breslow

Hello! I am a PhD candidate in the Linguistics Department of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. My research focuses on sociolinguistics, language revitalization and documentation, and phonetics. More specifically, my dissertation examines sociophonetic variation in the Yiddish spoken by the secular/Yiddishist community. I am also interested in lexical variation in Jewish English spoken in Australia and the US, and the intersection of ethnobotany and linguistics in the study of Woleaian, a Chuukic language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia.

My dissertation advisor is Dr. Andrew Cheng, and my committee members are Dr. Amy Schafer, Dr. Andrea Berez-Kroeker, and Dr. Isaac Bleaman.

Feel free to reach out to me at ebreslow [at] hawaii [dot] edu if you have any questions about my research!