Current Members

Lab Director

Alicia Beckford Wassink

Professor

Department of Linguistics

Sociophonetics, spectral overlap and trajectory analysis in vowel systems, dialect contact and contact-induced change, Pacific Northwest English, Jamaican Creole phonetics and phonology.

Faculty Lab Members

Betsy Evans

Associate Professor

Department of Linguistics

Sociophonetics, Pacific Northwest English, imitation of dialects, attitudes to language variation.

Richard Wright

Professor

Department of Linguistics

Phonetics, speech perception and spoken word recognition, sources of variability in spoken language, Austronesian langauges of Taiwan, Endangered languages of the Northwest, speech technology.

Graduate Student Lab Members

Sunkulp (Sunny) Ananthanarayan

Department of Linguistics

Amazonian Languages, Computational Tools, Endangered Languages, Field Research Methods, Language Attitudes, Documentation, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Typology.

Advisor: Myriam Lapierre

Ty Gill-Saucier

Department of Linguistics

Sociophonetics, Dialectology, Automated Speech Recognition for non-standard dialects, Language Attitudes, Historical Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Latin Sociolinguistics.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Flo Humbert

Department of Linguistics

Sociophonetics, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Perceptual Dialectology, Language Variation and Change.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Katie Lindekugel

Department of Linguistics

Applied Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Historical Linguistics.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Cassie Maz

Department of Linguistics

NLP, Sign Language Translation, ASL, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis.

Advisor: Shane Steinert-Threlkeld

Yadi Peng

Department of Linguistics

Sociophonetics, language attitudes, and sign languages.

Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink

Undergraduate Student Lab Members

Devyn Brandt

Major: Speech and Hearing Sciences

Audiology, Hearing Disorders, Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Intersectionality

Helen Liu

Major: Computer Science & Linguistics

NLP, Computational Linguistics, ML, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Sociolinguistics

Research Affiliates

Alex Panicacci

Visiting Research Scholar

Department of Psychology, Department of Linguistics

Research Interests: Linguistic, cultural, and racial diversity; Acculturation tendencies; Race, ethnicity, and prototypicality; Multilingual, multicultural, and multiracial identities; Migration; Emotions in different languages; Affective socialisation; Sociolinguistic practices; Personality traits; Self-perceptions in different languages; Social identity and stereotypes.

Campion Fellin

CLOx Team Member

UW Linguistics Alumni

Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, NLP, ASR

Research Collaborators

Chase Fossen

UW Linguistics Alumnus

Sociolinguistics, Belizean Creole

Amina Venton

UW CLMS Alumnus

Natural Language Processing, Machine learning, Automatic Speech Recognition, Sociophonetics, Dialectology, Guyanese Creole


Join Us

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