Tags: Graduate Students

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at the University of Georgia. My areas of research are syntax & semantics and historical linguistics—I am particularly interested in event semantics and the historical relationships between and evolution of tense, aspect, mood, and telicity. I received my B.A. in English with a concentration in linguistics with a double minor in psychology and writing, rhetoric, &…
I am a third-year MA student. I am working on finishing my Classics MA, with which I expect to graduate in December 2022. My thesis for that degree focuses on the epithets of Athena in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. This is my first semester in Linguistics, and my focus and passion is Historical Linguistics, especially phonological change within languages.
I'm a PhD Candidate studying the intersection of corpus phonetics, machine learning, and phonology. At heart, I'm an acoustic phonetician with an interest in improving our models of speech production. Through study of social and linguistic variables, we can identify stable patterns of variation relevant to computational goals like statistical modeling, automatic speech recognition, and the creation of linguistic corpora. However, these patterns…
Meg is from Holden Beach, North Carolina and received her Bachelor's and Master's degree in linguistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is now a fifth-year Ph.D. student at UGA with research interests in sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and indigenous languages. Currently, Meg is working on her QP2 on Afro-Latine identity in Georgia. Please reach out to Meg via email for CV or other questions. 
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Devon Fischer is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her primary areas of research include Syntax and Second Language Acquisition. Devon has two BAs, one in Spanish and one in Linguistics, and an MA in Hispanic Linguistics. She currently teaches Spanish at UGA.