Hey! 👋

I’m Michael, a 2nd year Linguistics PhD student at Stanford.

I’m interested in:

• ㊓ Sociolinguistics (variation, social meaning, identity)
• 🧠 Cognition (attention, information-theoretic approaches, exemplar theory)
• 🎙️ Phonetics (speech production, reduction, control)
• 👾 Computational methods (NLP, SpeechLMs, corpus analysis)

You can contact me at msenko at stanford dot edu.

News

• July 2026 Some local press coverage and a Substack interview on fieldwork in Maine.
• June 2026: Article with Annette D’Onofrio out now in Language in Society!
• Dec 2025: Chapter with Rob Voigt based on thesis work out now!
• Sep 2025: Moved to the Bay + started PhD at Stanford.