Hey! 👋

I’m Michael, a 1st year Linguistics PhD student at Stanford.

I’m interested in:

• ㊓ Sociolinguistics (performance, variation, metalinguistic awareness)
• 🧠 Cognition (control, attention, exemplar theory)
• 🎙️ Phonetics (vowel quality, speech production, chain shifts)
• 👾 Computational methods (NLP, LLMs, corpus analysis)

You can contact me at msenko at stanford dot edu.

News

• Sep 2025: Moved to the Bay + started PhD at Stanford
• Dec 2025: Chapter with Rob Voigt based on thesis work out now!