Principle Investigator
Dr. Myriam Lapierre
Dr. Myriam Lapierre (a.k.a. Kjêpyti) is the PI on the Panãra Documentation Project and the Director of the UW Linguistics Fieldwork Lab. She is a member of the Kreröwantêra clan. Her personal website can be accessed here. [Personal Site]
Graduate Students
Jessamine Jeter
Jessa’s research interests include first language acquisition, morphosyntactic patterns in Amazonian languages, language documentation and revitalization, and justice in language work. Her current ongoing research projects in the lab are the infant language environment and development project and the number morphosyntax project. Jessa holds a master’s degree in language documentation and conservation from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science, French, and linguistics from Occidental College.
Sunkulp (Sunny) Ananthanarayan
Sunkulp (Sunny) Ananthanarayan began work on the team in the summer of 2023, just before their first quarter as a PhD student at UW. In the Panãra community, their name is Ikkôrïnkre/Pjysi Tün, and they are a member of the Kreröwantêra clan, adopted by their mother Paatomä. Their work lies across domains of linguistic analysis, with a sociolinguistic focus, studying evidence of dialect levelling/koineization through recent generations of Panãra people. You can find their personal website [here].
Ella De Falco
Ella De Falco (aka Pêkjä) is a PhD student on the Panãra Documentation Project and graduate lead of the Panãra Emotion in Speech project. She is a member of the Kwâsinantera clan. She has been a member of the lab since 2022. Her research interests include phonetics, prosody, speech perception, and automatic speech and emotion recognition. Her work lies at the intersection of affective sciences and the perception of acoustic cues in speech.
