Caroline Wiltshire received her BA in math from Yale University and her MA and PhD in Linguistics from the University of Chicago. She taught for a year each at Yale and Brown before accepting her present position at UF three years ago. Her grandmother still lives here in Gainesville. You work in phonetics and phonology.
Phonology is a little more abstract.
It involves looking at sound systems, sound patterns and the way that languages differ in their sound patterns. We examine what sets of sounds are permissible, and what sounds are meaningful in one language versus in another. Phonology is also looking for what features different languages have in common. For example, all language seems to have syllable structure, and all languages have some restrictions on what can be a valid syllable. This is what I do most of my work on.