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I am an experimental phonologist interested in the cognitive representation of phonotactic patterns.  I study the ways sounds interact in the languages we speak and how our mind stores, accesses, and processes them. My scholarly work stems from a combined interest in phonology and psycholinguistics.  My research adopts a behavioral approach to explore the possible and impossible sound sequences of Spanish experimentally, with a particular focus on the interaction of stress and syllable structure, among monolingual and bilingual populations.  My work supports a perspective of gradience in phonotactic representation and explores linguistic issues such as syllable weight and psycholinguistic models of speech production and visual word recognition.