I am a Joseph H. Greenberg Fellow Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM, USA. I am also the current President of the High Desert Linguistics Society. In my Phonetics and Phonology work, I am particularly interested in contributing to the description and documentation of languages labeled "Creoles" and "Pidgins." Haitian Creole is the language I am mostly working on. 

I also currently work in two different positions:

• Research Assistant for Dr. Joshua Birhcall working on a project related to Mondé/Salamãi, a Tupian language of the state of Rondônia, in the Amazon region of Brazil. 

• Portuguese & Linguistics tutor at the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNM.

Originally from Brazil, I hold an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo–USP, and a B.A. in Translation and Interpreting from the Nove de Julho University, São Paulo, Brazil. 

You can reach me at bpslinguist [at] unm [dot] edu

Areas of theoretical-methodological interest: cognitive & functional linguistics; (socio) phonetics; (laboratory) phonology; 

Fields of interest: language typology; contact linguistics; sociolinguistics; historical linguistics; bi/multilinguism.

Languages of interest: any pidgin or Creole language, but especially Haitian Creole.