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Two President's Fellows grant applications

1/14/2025

 
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 FOOLS

4/1/2024

 
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.

Article accepted: Prevelar merger in production and perception

1/13/2023

 
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). 

Revisions

10/3/2022

 
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

ASA Denver

5/27/2022

 
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After over two years of online conferences, I attended the Acoustical Society of America in Denver. It was great to catch up with old friends and see posters in person. The posters were very spread out, which was great for the acoustics -- we could hear each other without yelling, and we weren't bumping into each other. It would be nice if we could do it that way forever!
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Three papers submitted

2/24/2022

 
This has been a busy winter, with three new manuscripts 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," 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

BAG-BEG-BAGEL paper published in LVC

6/30/2021

 
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My paper on the merger of words like BEG and VAGUE, and sometimes BAG, has been published in Language Variation and Change (doi:10.1017/S0954394521000028).  I started this project as a student over 7 years ago, but it took a back seat during my dissertation and postdoc until I started revisiting it 3 years ago with some new methods and stats. This paper looks at production (pronunciation) in Seattle, and the next paper will compare production and perception among a slightly wider range of Northwesterners.

ICPhS Proceedings

8/1/2019

 
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My paper "Prevelar merger in production vs. perception" was accepted to the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Melbourne, Australia!  This conference meets only every four years, and short papers are reviewed in full (rather than by abstract) and published in the proceedings if accepted.  Here's a link to the full proceedings.
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