About Me:

I am a fourth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis, where I work in the Phonetics Lab with Dr. Georgia Zellou.

My academic interests include phonetics/phonology, speech perception, psycholinguistics, speaking style variation, sociolinguistics, and human-computer interaction. Please click here to access my full CV.

I am also passionate about teaching! Please click here to learn more about my teaching philosophy, to view some of my sample presentation slides, and to read some sample evaluations.

Updates:

11/9/24: I presented "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Social co-variation facilitates the emergence of sociolinguistic perception" at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 in Miami Beach along with Georgia Zellou.

11/9/24: Bayleigh Baldwin presented "'Country Talk' in California's Napa Valley" at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52 in Miami Beach along with me and Georgia Zellou!

9/24/24: For the Fall 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 103A (Linguistic Analysis I: Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology).

9/4/24: I will be presenting "When multiple talker exposure is necessary for cross-talker generalization: Social co-variation facilitates the emergence of sociolinguistic perception" at the 2025 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia along with Georgia Zellou.

6/24/24: For the Summer 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001Y (Introduction to Linguistics).

5/24/24: I presented "Effects of speaking style and apparent talker variability on perceptual adaptation to L2-accented speech" at the 10th Annual UC Davis Symposium on Language Research in Davis, California.

5/8/24: Jules Vonessen, Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! The paper is titled: "Comparing perception of L1 and L2 English by human listeners and machines: Effect of interlocutor adaptations". The paper is available at this link.

4/13/24: Georgia Zellou and I have a new paper that has been published in the Journal of Phonetics! The paper is titled: "Being clear about clear speech: Intelligibility of hard-of-hearing-directed, non-native-directed, and casual speech for L1- and L2-English listeners". The paper is available at this link.

4/3/24: I have been selected for membership in the UC Davis chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

4/1/24: For the Spring 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics).

3/26/24: For my work as a teaching assistant in LIN 001 (Introduction to Linguistics) in Fall 2023, I have been nominated by 10 former students for the UC Davis Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award.

1/8/24: For the Winter 2024 quarter, I will work as a teaching assistant for LIN 171 (Introduction to Psycholinguistics).

1/5/24: I presented "Ethnicity-specific and -independent learning: Effects of guise on adaptation to novel foreign-accented talkers" at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in New York City along with Georgia Zellou.

12/5/23: I presented "When speaking clearly does not enhance comprehension: Comparing intelligibility of hard-of-hearing- and non-native-directed speech for native and non-native listeners" at the 185th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Sydney, Australia along with Georgia Zellou.

12/4/23: As a winner of the Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Student Paper Competition, I was featured on Across Acoustics, the official podcast of the Acoustical Society of America! Click here to access the episode and listen from 19:49-30:53, where I discuss my work with Georgia Zellou on intelligibility and recognition memory of human and synthetic voices.