Poster, Society for Computation in Linguistics, San Diego, CA
This work shows that small neural networks trained to perform Spanish vowel classification mimic adult Spanish-dominant listeners’ misperception of Catalan vowels, indicating that these models have promise as compact models of cross-linguistic speech perception.
Poster, 29th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This study demonstrates that Löffelsprache, a German language game, cannot be classified using existing descriptive criteria of language games, and posits a novel analysis, iterative templatic transformation, to account for language game forms.
Talk, 5th Annual Emory Undergraduate Linguistics Conference, Virtual
This project presents three models which score monosyllabic words on their English wellformedness or acceptability, and determines which model best matches gradient human intuition.
Talk, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
This study aims to show that Löffelsprache, a German Geheimsprache or secret language cannot be accurately classified using existing criteria associated with the description of language games.