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Gasper Begus - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Check back for status Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project looks at language in deep neural networks, animals (whales, elephants, spiders), and humans. We model 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
This project aims to document conversational speech of ordinary people of all ages and backgrounds who grew up in Oakland. Our main interest is in how people pronounce their words - is there an "Oakland accent" but the recordings are also social records from people spanning a wide range of age...
Social SciencesAlexandra Pfiffner - Professor, Linguistics
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Implosives are a type of consonant found in 13% of the world’s languages (Maddieson, 1984) and are particularly widespread throughout the languages of sub-Saharan Africa. However, they remain extremely understudied in phonetics. The goal of this project is to work through fieldwork recordings from Summer 2024 with speakers of...
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: Check back for status 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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