Liza Sulkin presenting at LavLang31
PhD candidate Liza Sulkin was accepted for a talk at Lavender Languages and Linguistics (LavLang31) this summer in Manchester! Her talk is on the preliminary results of her dissertation work. LavLang is the only conference dedicated to queer linguistics/language & sexuality. She will report on how F0, CoG of /s/, and speech rate correlate with […]
Jackson Kellogg awarded a GRAF
Very exciting news, PhD candidate Jackson Kellogg was awarded a Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF) to travel to Ethiopia this summer to conduct Amharic research for his dissertation! GRAF awards support foreign-based research by doctoral students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences whose field-based or archival research requires an extended period of residence […]
Kevin Samejon and Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas defend their dissertations
Very exciting news this week: two of our PhD candidates defended their dissertations! – Kevin Samejon: “National identity and regionality among Philippine English speakers in Metro Manila and Metro Cebu: A variationist study of alveolar fricative production” – Lee-Ann Vidal-Covas: Covariation & Salience in Linguistic Contact: A Sociophonetic Study of Liquid Production in Boston Spanish” […]
Jupitara Ray defends her dissertation prospectus
Congratulations to PhD student Jupitara Ray on successfully defending her dissertation prospectus! Her project is entitled “Phonetic accommodation and drift: A study of Hindi-English and Telugu-English early sequential bilinguals”. You can read more about Jupitara and her work on her website: https://jupitararay.github.io/