Research

Natalie Operstein’s research interests center on language change, phonology, and language contact. Her books include The Lingua Franca: Contact-Induced Language Change in the Mediterranean (2022), Consonant Structure and Prevocalization (2010), Zaniza Zapotec (2015), Valence Changes in Zapotec, ed. with A.H. Sonnenschein (2015), Language Contact and Change in Mesoamerica and Beyond, ed. with K. Dakin and C. Parodi (2017).