Her research focuses on the phonetics of Salish and Dene languages of British Columbia, most recently the SENĆOŦEN dialect of North Straits Salish. Her work is primarily on the phonetic realization of articulatorily complex sounds and sequences of sounds, and on how this realization varies across speakers and languages. She has also recently expanded the scope of her work to second language acquisition of pronunciation in the context of language revitalization.