ORLYN is a licensed professional teacher and a Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research primarily focuses on the documentation and acquisition of Ayta Magbukun, an endangered Philippine Negrito language, with a particular emphasis on its syntactic structure. She also examines Tagalog within the frameworks of second language acquisition (SLA), psycholinguistics, and interactional linguistics. Her broader research interests include language documentation, child/adult language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and interactional linguistics (discourse particles). Her alter ego dreams of doing bioacoustic research on humpback whales and orcas, investigating their vocalizations and communication patterns.