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Keiko Bridwell

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Ph.D. Candidate
Data Studio Research Assistant
Keiko Bridwell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the intersection of linguistic variation and identity in Southern US English, particularly in the Athens area.  She also has experience in psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic research.
 
Keiko earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in linguistics from the University of South Carolina in 2017 and 2019 respectively, and has been at UGA since 2019. She works as a research assistant in the UGA Libraries as part of the Department of Research and Computational Data Management, where she provides support to student and faculty researchers with questions related to data analysis and data visualization.
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.

Grants:

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).

Articles Featuring Keiko Bridwell

This month Florida International University and the University of Miami hosted the 52nd annual Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference in Miami. Our Linguistics Department was fortunate to have multiple faculty members and students participate this year.…

This week, Linguistics Ph.D. students Keiko Bridwell and Amelia Abbott received Graduate Research Awards from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Advisory Board. The scholarships were awarded to fund Bridwell and Abbott's respective research efforts.…

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