Tags: Graduate Students

Seaira Lett has a B.A. in Spanish and linguistics from Emory University and a Master of Education from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Seaira’s research interests include language documentation and indigenous languages of Latin America. Her focus is on the morphosyntax and semantics of Chuj, a Mayan language spoken primarily in Guatemala. She currently collects data with a community of speakers in the US. Seaira also previously served as a…

Jay is a first-year PhD student who graduated summa cum laude from the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in Linguistics in the honors language structure and theory track, as well as in Spanish. They wrote their undergraduate thesis on verb usage patterns in disclosures of mental illness based on data pulled from the Corpus of Contemporary American English. They have presented their thesis research at Penn State University and the Northeastern…

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…

Tucker received his undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and German from the University of Georgia, graduating Magna Cum Laude in the spring of 2021. He is primarily interested in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. More specifically, Tucker focuses on how various intersectional identities are navigated and negotiated, linguistically and otherwise, across rural and urban spaces of the American South. His most recent research has focused on…

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 third-year Ph.D. student at UGA with research interests in sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics and indigenous languages. Currently, Meg is working on her QP1 on African American English speakers in Georgia. Please reach out to Meg via email for CV or other questions.