Working with collaborators on two projects, we recently submitted two proposals for the OSU President's Fellows Faculty Research Award: Megan Macken led one for our DXDX project, and I worked with postdoc Lisa Sullivan and TESOL/Linguistics prof Nicole Tracy-Ventura on a second for Lisa's app on our prevelar merger mapping project. Both projects need some computer science expertise to complete our database and app. 

After several rounds of editing with former student Mik Martinelli and colleagues Sara Loss and Sabiha Parveen, we've submitted a new version of a paper on Mik's project about training techniques for helping listeners understand dysarthric speech. Now, we wait.

I've recently rejoined work on the ATAROS project, which funded my dissertation. A graduating PhD student at the University of Washington, Sara Ng, has been leading related work on the prosodic interactions of information load (new/given info) and stance. Our mutual adviser, Richard Wright, gave several talks in France and Japan during his sabbatical this spring. We wrote a conference proceedings paper for one, and we're working on a journal article for next year.

A new researcher Dr. Lisa Sullivan, currently a postdoc at the University of Manitoba, will be joining my lab this fall!  She will be supported by a Canadian fellowship for two years to work on a project about prevelar raising/merger (pronouncing words like bag and leg more like vague). The project would extend her dissertation work -- and my own "bag-beg-bagel" prevelar merger studies -- to map the phenomenon across North America, collect massive numbers of audio recordings and perceptions online, and provide public education about dialect differences and linguistic discrimination, all in one interactive website or app. Lisa has a background in web development and experience incorporating writing practice into curriculum development, as well as her degrees in linguistics. We'll be lucky to have her!