Ph.D. Student Graduate Research Assistant I'm a 3rd year PhD student studying the intersection of corpus phonetics and machine learning. 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 of variation prove difficult to capture at scale when the computational tools used are inflexible or under-resourced. My research concerns ways in which machine learning can aid in the detection of variation in order to capture phonetic and phonological patterns. Education Education: PhD in Linguistics - University of Georgia (in progress) MA in Linguistics and English Language Teaching - University of Leeds BA in Linguistics - University of Georgia AA in Foreign Language (Spanish) - Middle Georgia State College Research Areas of Interest: Computational Linguistics Corpus Methods Phonetics and Phonology Sociolinguistics and Language Variation Selected Publications Selected Publications: Sara E. Miller, Austin Brailey-Jones, Margaret E. L. Renwick; Postlexical palatalization of /d/ across word boundaries in UK English. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust 5 December 2022; 50 (1): 060005. https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001736 Awards, Honors and Recognitions Awards and Special Recognitions: UGA AI Research Day 2022 - Best Poster Award for Application of Deep Learning to the Classification of Palatalized [t] in UK English. Courses Taught Courses Taught: LING 2100 LING 2100E
