Upcoming Presentations I'll be giving two papers at the 54th Symposium on Romance Languages: "Modeling phonological and phonetic variation in regional Italian mid-vowel systems," with Joshua M. Griffiths; “Endangered Romance varieties in the Istria-Kvarner region, Croatia: Status of Istriot, Istro-Romanian and Istro-Venetian and corpus building for documentation and research," with Zvjezdana Vrzić, Keith Langston, and John T. Hale. Recent Presentations Movement, Economy, Orientation: 20th Century Shifts in North American Language. Co-organized by Joseph A. Stanley, Monica Nesbitt and Margaret E. L. Renwick. Panel at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society. New York, NY. January 5, 2024. "Impacts of structure, usage and phonetics on Italian mid vowels." Talk at "Phonetics and phonology – Beyond Romance" workshop within the 53rd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 53). Paris, France. June 30, 2023. "Comparing palatalization of /t,d/ across word boundaries in UK English" with Sara E. Miller and Austin Brailey-Jones. Oral presentation at the 90th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Oxford, MS. March 9 – 11, 2023. "Vowel trajectories of African Americans in Georgia, USA" with Jon Forrest, Lelia Glass, and Joseph A. Stanley. Poster presentation at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN. December 5 – 9, 2022. [poster] "Palatalization of /d/ across word boundaries in UK English" with Sara E. Miller and Austin Brailey-Jones. Poster presentation at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Nashville, TN. December 5 – 9, 2022. [poster] "Application of Deep Learning to the Classification of Palatalized [t] in UK English" with Austin Brailey-Jones and Sara E. Miller. Poster presentation at UGA AI Research Day 2022. University of Georgia, Athens GA. November 17, 2022. [First-place prize, Student Poster Competition] "Regional Distinctiveness and Development: African-American Vowel Systems in Georgia" with Jon Forrest and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at NWAV 50. October 13 – 15, 2022. "A Mid-Century Peak for the Southern Vowel Shift: Evidence from Georgia" with Joseph A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at LabPhon18, the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. June 23 – 25, 2022. "Accounting for /t/ palatalization across word boundaries in UK English" with Austin Brailey-Jones and Sara E. Miller. Poster presentation at LabPhon18, the 18th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. June 23 – 25, 2022. "Contrast and variation in three Romance vowel systems." Invited keynote address at the 52nd Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 52), University of Wisconsin-Madison. April 21 – 23, 2022. "Perspectives on Georgia vowels: From legacy to synchrony" with Joseph A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, and Lelia Glass. Oral presentation at ADS 2022. January 6 – 9, 2022. "A Linguistic Analysis of English Personal Names" with Savannah Jane Williams. Poster presentation at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, D.C. January 6 – 9, 2022 "Social predictors of the wine-whine merger in the US South" with Keiko Bridwell. Oral presentation at NWAV 49, October 19 - 24, 2021. "100 Years of Georgia English" with Joseph A. Stanley. Oral presentation at NWAV 49, October 19 - 24, 2021. "Word-final palatalization and production planning in English" with Donald G. Dunagan. Poster presentation at Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. December 2020. "Mapping Southern spoken dialect features with Geographic Information Systems" with Jonathan A. Jones. Poster presentation at Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. December 2020. "Word-specific phonetics in a large Italian corpus." Oral presentation at Word-specific phenomena in the realization of vowel categories: methodological and theoretical perspectives. LabPhon 17 Satellite Workshop. October 1 – 2, 2020. "Back Vowel Distinctions and Dynamics in Southern US English" with Joey Stanley. Oral presentation at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 2020. [slides] "Heterogeneity in Southern speech: evidence from the Mississippi [River] Delta" with Jonathan Jones. Oral presentation at the 2020 American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. January 2020. "Improved Vowel Labeling for Prenasal Merger Using Customized Forced Alignment" with Yuanming Shi and Fred Maier. Poster presentation at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. December 2019. "Detecting Southern vowel features with GIS mapping" with Jonathan Jones. Oral presentation at the 6th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA. October 4, 2019. "Diving into DASS: A multimedia exploration of Southern Speech" with Bailey Bigott. Oral presentation at the 6th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA. October 4, 2019. "Methods for noise reduction in a legacy speech corpus" with Lisa Lipani, Yuanming Shi, and Josh McNeill. Poster presentation at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. May 13 - 17, 2019. "Reconciling perception with production in Southern speech" with Rachel Olsen, Joey Stanley, Mike Olsen, and Lisa Lipani. Oral presentation at ADS 2019. January 6, 2019. [poster] "Lexical and geographic variation in Italian mid vowels." Poster presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 4, 2019. [poster] "Social factors in Southern US speech: acoustic analysis of a large-scale legacy corpus" with Joey Stanley. Poster presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. January 3, 2019. "Finding pockets of social variation in the Digital Archive of Southern Speech" with Joey Stanley. Oral presentation at the 5th Annual Linguistics Conference at UGA. October 12, 2018. "The impact of social factors on vowel duration in natural Southern speech" with Rachel M. Olsen. Oral presentation at the 85th Southeastern Conference on Linguistics. April 21, 2018. "Phonetic implementation of mid vowel contrasts across Italian varieties." Poster presentation at the 2018 meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians. Canterbury, UK. April 12, 2018. [poster] More recent presentations are listed on my CV.
