Aaron Braver

Associate Professor and Director of Linguistics

Texas Tech University

<aaron.braver /æt/ ttu.edu>

Office: Humanities 312C | Lab: Humanities 203

News:

I was awarded the 2026 TTU Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Innovation Award.

I'll be presenting at the following conferences in the second half of 2026. Hope to see you there!

About me

I am an Associate Professor and Director of Linguistics at Texas Tech University. My research focuses on phonology and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology, which I investigate from both theoretical and experimental perspectives. My current projects involve modeling incomplete neutralization and bringing laboratory phonology approaches to Bantu morphophonology.

I also direct the Phonetics and Phonology Linguistics Laboratory (PPLL) at Texas Tech.

If you want to know more about me, check out my CV, research interests, or papers and talks.

Scripts and tools

A number of scripts and tools for Praat, R, LaTeX, PsychoPy, and the like that I've developed are available on the resources page.

Personal Background

My not-infrequent use of "hella", fronted vowels, and lack of [ɔ] all betray my Southern California roots—even though I lived on the east coast for nearly a decade. Texans rarely believe it, but I am a native user of y'all.

I completed my Ph.D. in linguistics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, before which I studied linguistics and linguistic anthropology at Brandeis University, just outside of Boston.

I also have some non-linguistic interests.


Crystal Cove, Newport Beach, CA (December, 2006)