Upcoming Presentations Langston, Keith, Margaret Renwick, Zvjezdana Vrzić, John Hale, Austin Jones, Agustin Lorenzo and Massimo Daul. “Creating a multilingual spoken corpus for language documentation and research: Tools and workflows for low-resource languages.” Upcoming presentation at the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation. Honolulu, Hawaii. March 6 – 9, 2025. Recent Presentations “Complementary pre-lateral mergers across ethnicities and generations in Georgia.” Talk at the American Dialect Society Meeting 2025 with Joey Stanley, Lelia Glass and Jon Forrest. “Natural Class Reorganization over Apparent Time by Prelateral /u/ and /oʊ/ in Georgia.” Talk at NWAV 52 with Joey Stanley, Lelia Glass and Jon Forrest. "Phonological Feature Detection for US English using the Phonet Library." Poster presentation with Harsha-Veena Tadavarthy and Austin Jones at INTERSPEECH 2024. "Evaluating Italian Vowel Variation with the Recurrent Neural Network Phonet." Poster presentation with Austin Jones at INTERSPEECH 2024. "Modeling phonological and phonetic variation in regional Italian mid-vowel systems." Talk with Joshua M. Griffiths at the 54th Symposium on Romance Languages. Provo, UT. May 2024. “Endangered Romance varieties in the Istria-Kvarner region, Croatia: Status of Istriot, Istro-Romanian and Istro-Venetian and corpus building for documentation and research." Talk with Zvjezdana Vrzić, Keith Langston, and John T. Hale at the 54th Symposium on Romance Languages. Provo, UT. May 2024. 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. More recent presentations are listed on my CV.
