Category: Publications

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.

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.

Writing retreat

3/9/2025

Just got back from a four-day writing retreat with Kimberly Hale, Lisa Sullivan, and three others from far and wide. Worked on revisions for my Word/Voice Gender paper and finished my IRB application for a new SoTL study about my Deaf Lived Experience research/honors course. A very productive getaway!

Dysarthric familiarization paper submitted

1/2/2025

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.

Rejoining stance

6/1/2024

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.

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

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