Research Experience
Lab involvement
The University of Texas at Austin: 2013-present
Supervisor: Lars Hinrichs
Research areas:
- Phonetic variation:
- Two Candidates—One Accent: Article
- Examined syllable-final /r/ and THOUGHT vowel raising in Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, illustrating Trump’s linguistic performativity
- STR Clusters and Ethnic Diversity
- Examined palatized /s/ in STR clusters in Hispanic, White, and African-American speakers of Texas English
- Two Candidates—One Accent: Article
- Corpus linguistics:
- Data collection and archiving: Archive here
- Prescriptivism
- Conducted multivariate analysis of “whom” in written English corpus data since the 1800s
Miscellaneous:
- Film interviews with local people of interest
- Coordinated, advertised, and filmed Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Public Lectures on Language Series
The University of Texas at Austin: 2019-present
Supervisor: Casey Boyle
Working to visualize linguistic data in interactive graphs using R and Shiny
University of Oslo: September-October 2018
Supervisor: Unn Røyneland
Independent research on Taiwanese living in diaspora, exploring how they align themselves with the various identities and social groups associated with their national, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, and examining how language is used in the construction of these identity alignments.
The University of Texas at Austin: 2016-2017
Supervisor: Tanya Clement
As a graduate assistant for IDS, I built and maintained the IDS website, created and managed all social media accounts, and collaborated with designers to create IDS media images and videos, as well as provided logistical and on-the-ground support for the Digital Humanities Pop Up Institute.
The University of Texas at Austin: 2012-2016
Supervisor: David Quinto-Pozos
Research areas:
- Language processing of children with specific language impairment
- ASL acquisition by Deaf children
Programs:
- PsychoPy
- SAS