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.
Postdoc coming!4/21/2024 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!
Prevelar FOOLS4/1/2024 In anticipation of a big project expansion, I gave an overview of prevelar mergers at the Friends of Oklahoma Language Studies (FOOLS) group on campus. This has been a long-standing sociophonetic project that I hope to revive with new data soon. I haven't presented on it at OSU, so it was great to nerd out about one of my favorite topics with new linguists.
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).
Revisions10/3/2022 This has been a busy few weeks, with three revisions recently submitted to journals:
ASA Denver5/27/2022
Three papers submitted2/24/2022 This has been a busy winter, with three new manuscripts recently submitted to journals:
BAG-BEG-BAGEL paper published in LVC6/30/2021
ICPhS Proceedings8/1/2019
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