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ASA Hawaii

12/10/2025

Enjoyed a week at the Acoustical Society of America, held jointly with our Japanese counterparts in Honolulu. I presented a poster on pilot data with teen listeners' impressions of peer speech and reconnected with colleagues from all over. Had great weather the whole time!

OSHA student posters

11/8/2025

Two students presented posters of their own analysis of DXDX project data at this year's Oklahoma Speech-Language-Hearing Association conference: Emily Myrick, now a grad student, and Claire Baggett, a senior. OSHA was held at the University of Tulsa, and this was the biggest poster session in years, with many students from multiple universities.

Intergroup experiential learning chapter submitted

10/10/2025

Sara Loss and I submitted a first draft of an invited chapter for an edited volume on linguistic discrimination in higher ed. Part of our collaboration on supporting cross-cultural communication, especially among undergrads, we examine intergroup contact activities through an experiential learning lens and emphasize the importance of iterative reflection for growth in mindsets and strategies.

First CURE paper accepted

10/1/2025

My first paper with Kimberly Hale about involving undergrads in research has been accepted to the Journal of Interpreting. We use my Deaf Lived Experience course as a model of a loosely-structured course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) to show how ASL-English interpreter education faculty can incorporate research with undergrads into their curricula. It is the first product in our collaboration, soon to be followed by a SoTL (scholarship of teaching and learning) paper on gains students experience through DXDX CURE participation.

Pragmatic stance paper submitted

5/27/2025

Recent UW graduate Sara Ng has extended the ATAROS project that started with my dissertation to computational studies of pragmatic stance marking, resulting in several collaborative presentations this year -- and now a journal article submission.

Grads Spring 2025

5/10/2025

Quite a few students from my lab, both past and present, graduated this spring, and several have funded positions for grad school. Jordan Bilger is headed to U of Tulsa for her SLP master's, Mady Hedge chose James Madison U for audiology, Allie Whitfield is off to UT Dallas's SLP program and a colleague's lab, Emily Myrick, Paige Day, and Kate Goodwin will be TAs in OSU's SLP program, and Emmalie Greene is off to law school. From some who graduated in December, Sophie Ernst is joining a lab at U of Oklahoma while starting her master's in SLP, Kallie Chapman is joining a counseling psychology program on the East Coast, and Breyanna Arion is starting OSU's educational psychology grad program. Two master's students, Bailey Smith and Athena Kirby, finished their degrees and will begin fellowships this summer. Athena's senior project was recently published as a journal article, and Bailey's thesis will be submitted to a journal this summer. A very successful year!

Word/Voice Gender paper accepted

4/24/2025

My paper with Brooke Merritt at UT El Paso, now-grad student Athena Kirby, and OSU audiologist Tori Courouleau has been accepted to the Journal of Language and Social Psychology! In short, we found that listeners with more gender diversity experience were better able to separate perceived vocal gender from conceptual word gender compared to listeners who don't know anyone transgender or nonbinary.

Undergrad Symposium 2025

4/23/2025

Emily Myrick and Claire Baggett each presented independent analyses of their work on my DXDX project in posters at OSU's Undergraduate Research Symposium. Peyton Hinds also helped present a poster from the Phon Farm lab. CDIS was well represented with nine total student posters!

Awards 2025

4/9/2025

The DXDX Project team was well represented at our annual departmental awards banquet. Jordan Bilger was recognized for her contributions to research, and former DXDX member Paige Day was named Outstanding Senior. I gave teal cords to six graduating seniors who have made substantial long-term contributions to my lab and a cord to Bailey Smith as she completed her master's thesis.

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