Darya Kavitskaya
Associate Professor

Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics
University of California Berkeley

Research interests

Phonological theory: Contrast, opacity, syllable structure, sonority, phonotactics, vowel harmony, pre- and post-aspiration
Phonetics/phonology: Acoustic and articulatory properties of trills; distinctive features and secondary articulation (palatalization); phonetic correlates of stress
Areal linguistics: Slavic (Russian, BCS, Czech), Turkic (Crimean Tatar), Uralic (Tundra Nenets), Celtic (Scottish Gaelic), Kartvelian (Georgian)
Other interests: Historical Slavic, morphology, sound symbolism, language disorders