Keiko is a Ph.D candidate specializing in sociophonetics. Her research focuses on the intersection of linguistic variation and identity in Southern American English, frequently with regard to the variable /hw/. She also has experience in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research. Keiko works as a research assistant in the DigiLab in the library's Department of Research and Computational Data Management, where she gives workshops on digital tools such as Excel and R and assists faculty and students with project development and technical questions. Keiko received her master's degree in Linguistics from the University of South Carolina.
Education
Keiko graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2019 with a M.A. in Linguistics, and in 2017 with a BARSC degree in Linguistics.
Research
Willson Center Graduate Research Award
Selected Publications
Bridwell, K., & Renwick, M. E. (2023). Race, place, and education: Charting the wine-whine merger in the US South. American Speech. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-10867185
Dalola, A., & Bridwell, K. (2023). Revisiting sociophonetic competence: Variable spectral moments in phrase-final fricative epithesis for L1 & L2 speakers of French. In Barbara E. Bullock, Cinzia Russi, & Almeida Jacqueline Toribio (eds.), A half century of Romance linguistics: Selected proceedings of the 50th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. 195-220. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7525110
Dalola, A., & Bridwell, K. (2020). Redefining Sociophonetic Competence: Mapping COG Differences in Phrase-Final Fricative Epithesis in L1 and L2 Speakers of French. Languages, 5(4), 59. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages5040059
Dalola, A., & Bridwell, K. (2019). The Shape of [u]: Towards a Typology of Final Vowel Devoicing in Continental French. ICPhS 2019 (pp. 1174-1178).
