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Gasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project models spoken language from raw audio using deep generative neural networks (GANs). We use audio, neural, and behavioral data in spoken language to better understand and interpret deep learning models...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social Sciences Engineering, Design & TechnologiesKeith Johnson - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
Linguistic description of "California English" is based on observations of relatively few people, often college students, speaking in rather unnatural contexts. This project aims to document speech styles of ordinary people engaged in conversation. The project will focus on long-term residents of Oakland...
Social SciencesAlexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Lenition is a phonological process that refers to the weakening of segments in particular environments. There has been debate over what lenition means in phonetic terms, since there are many possible (and unrelated) processes labelled as lenition, such as plosives weakening to fricatives or approximants, affrication of plosives, flapping, voicing...
Alexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This is a forensic linguistics project examining possible sources of bias in the perception of disputed utterances. “Disputed utterances” refers to audio recordings used as evidence in legal cases where there is uncertainty / no consensus over what was said. This is common due to poor audio quality in cases like...
Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...
Social SciencesEve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...
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