Linguistics PhD Students and faculty Present at SECOL XC

Dr. Jon Forrest and PhD students Austin Brailey-Jones and Jean Costa-Silva attend SECOL

Congratulations to our PhD students Austin Brailey-Jones, Jean Costa-Silva, Meg Fletcher, Hyunjin Lee, and Betsy Miller, and as well as Linguistics faculty Dr. Jon Forrest and Linguistics Alumni Dr. Katherine Ireland who presented the results of their research at the Southeastern Conference in Linguistics (SECOL), which was held at the University of Mississippi March 9-11, 2023.

Austin Brailey-Jones and Betsy Miller presented their paper, "Comparing Palatalization of /t d/ across Word Boundaries in UK English".

Jean Costa-Silva presented his project, "A Matter of Space: The Acquisition of Motion Encoding by English-Portuguese Bilinguals Across Proficiency Levels".

Meg Fletcher and professor Dr. Jon Forrest presented, "An Updated Look at Variation in Interdentals in Varieties of Georgia AAE".

UGA Linguistics Alumni Dr. Katherine Ireland presented, "Health Communication Discourses: Keywords in CDC, NHS, and WHO Tweets".

Hyunjin Lee presented, "Ethnicity Affecting Accommodation in Exemplar Priming: An Analysis Based on Korean /ɨ/ Epenthesis in English”.⁠

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