Jennifer Miyaki is a fourth-year transfer, majoring in Linguistics and minoring in Anthropology. Her research focuses on the phonology of compound signs in American Sign Language (ASL). Growing up within driving distance of the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, she took ASL classes in community college and was introduced to Deaf culture and ASL syntax and morphology by her Deaf ASL professors and mentors. Inspired by the ASL program at her community college and her linguistics classes at UCLA, Jennifer was able to combine two of her interests, ASL and linguistics. In order to investigate the phonological processes of compound signs, her project will conduct elicitations with Deaf ASL fluent consultants and analyze phonological patterns, rules, and parameters, such as handshape, place of articulation, palm orientation, and movement assimilation.