Stanley Nam

Hi! I am Stanley Nam (he/him).

I recently completed my PhD in linguistics at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Gunnar Ólafur Hansson and Kathleen Currie Hall.

My research focuses on phonology, particularly on how speakers and machine-learning models perform on phonological tasks and what their behaviour can reveal about phonological theory.

My dissertation investigates how speakers and Transformer models apply selective processes. The focus is on whether their behaviour can be explained through transparent information, such as phonotactics, rather than latent information, such as etymology.

My MA thesis compared phonological neighbourhood networks in English and Korean, examining how global network structure differs across the two languages while showing comparable organizing principles.

I have also worked on finiteness in syntax and loanword adaptation.

I am currently based in Vancouver, Canada.