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Article accepted: Prevelar merger in production and perception

1/13/2023

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My latest paper on the bag-beg-vague merger in the Pacific Northwest has been accepted to the Journal of Phonetics!  The title explains: Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices. I've been considering ways to compare the two types of data for a long time, so I'm very pleased with this one. Special thanks to Santiago Barreda for the direction on confusion matrices (and bootstrapping confidence intervals on stats that don't normally provide things like p-values). 
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LSA minicourse

1/9/2023

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I attended and taught a full-day minicourse/workshop at the Linguistic Society of America conference in Denver last week. A good group of grad students and faculty attended; we walked through various methods of remote sociophonetic data collection and discussed their really interesting project ideas. My co-author Sara Loss also gave a talk on our project about supporting better communication between undergrads and international students, TAs, and faculty. It was great to see so many old friends and colleagues, and the American Dialect Society Word of the Year was quite amusing this year!
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OSU at ASHA

11/21/2022

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This weekend, I went to ASHA in New Orleans with two undergrads in my lab, Bailey and Mary, to present work on how employers judge CI users as potential job applicants after listening to speech samples. Several other OSU faculty and students also attended and presented -- possibly our best showing in years. I'm so glad we're able to support student research and professional development at a national level!
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Poster workshop

11/7/2022

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This Thursday, I'm giving a poster workshop with Nathan Horton for the TESL/Ling professional development series. We'll go over the basics of conference sessions and poster design, then talk about upcoming student projects and presentations.
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Panel on Oklahoma dialect research

10/8/2022

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This week, I was on an invited panel at the Center for Oklahoma Studies to showcase current work on dialectal features of Oklahoma English. I talked about pre-lateral mergers (phonetics), Sara Loss talked about personal datives (syntax), Nathan Horton talked about generational perceptions of "good" English in Oklahoma, and Sara's students Madalyn Peck and Maghin Brewer talked about the RODEO project and making available the data Dennis Preston's students collected during his years at OSU. It was held in the beautiful reading room in the library, and various faculty, students, and librarians attended and asked great questions. It was a great opportunity to present work to a wider audience and put our discrete studies in a broader context. 

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Revisions

10/4/2022

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This has been a busy few weeks, with three revisions recently submitted to journals:
  • "Employers’ speech-based first impressions of cochlear implant users," Part 3 of my series on how listeners judge the personalities and competence of cochlear implant users
  • "Production and perception of prevelar merger: Two-dimensional comparisons using Pillai scores and confusion matrices," which addresses the challenge of comparing continuous vowel production measures with responses from discrete perception tasks
  • "Dysarthric speech familiarization: Distributed practice and interleaving," spearheaded by Mik Martinelli, former linguistics grad student and now faculty at Midwestern State, and my OSU colleagues Sara Loss and Sabiha Parveen
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OSU at OSLHA

10/2/2022

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My department - both faculty and students - made a great showing at our state conference, the Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Faculty gave several talks and workshops, all 8 posters were from OSU students and faculty labs, and our students beat our rivals OU at the first annual Praxis Bowl!  Students from my lab presented two posters about our Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression (DXDX) Project: Bailey Smith and Mary Vang described the process of creating the video interview corpus with teams of students in a project-based course, and grad student Tess Meyer presented her thematic analysis of sudden situational loss of communication due to things like noisy restaurants, dead hearing aid/cochlear implant batteries, taking off devices for swimming, masks, and Zoom. I was very proud of all our students, and I'm so glad to see our state conference back to full activities and providing so many opportunities for student involvement.

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Part 3 accepted

9/23/2022

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Part 3 of a series of experiments about listeners' evaluations of cochlear implant speech has been accepted to the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. Titled "Employers’ speech-based first impressions of cochlear implant users," hiring managers rated talkers with typical hearing most positively, followed by highly-intelligible CI users and then less-intelligible CI users -- the same patterns as in Parts 1 and 2 (both 2018), which used college students listeners. Listeners didn't know the talkers were deaf. This unconscious bias could have negative effects on deaf/hard-of-hearing employment opportunities.  
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DXDX at FOOLS

9/10/2022

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This week, three students and I presented three posters about the Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression (DXDX) Project at the Friends of Oklahoma Language Studies meeting. I used last year's ASHA poster to introduce the project, Bailey Smith and Mary Vang practiced their presentation for the upcoming OSLHA conference about student involvement in the project, and Tess Meyer practiced her OSLHA presentation about her thematic analysis. The project was well received, and people had great questions and ideas for further uses of the corpus. All three students did a great job presenting their work!
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AURCA funding

8/15/2022

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Funding has been renewed for a computer science student to work on my Deaf Experience, Deaf Expression (DXDX) Project. The OSU College of Arts and Sciences' Advancing Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (AURCA) program funds work-study for research projects. My student will build a public database of searchable video clips from my interviews with d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people.
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