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Areas of expertise: Phonology, Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Russian, Speech
Biography, Education and Training
I am a professor of linguistics who works on phonology and phonetics: speech sounds in languages. My main language interest is Russian, but my work is directed at an understanding of language in general. I also frequently work on Irish (Gaelic). My work combines formal analysis, usually within Optimality Theory, with experimental methodologies. I am particularly interested in the role of contrast and perceptual distinctiveness in phonetics and phonology.
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brenneis@ucsc.edu
831-459-3855
Areas of expertise: Anthropology, Linguistics, Ethnomusicology, Sound, Folklore, Folk Music
Biography, Education and Training
Donald Brenneis is a linguistic and social anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studied anthropology as an undergraduate at Stanford and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His work has focused on the social life of communicative practices—linguistic, musical, performative, and textual. He worked in a South Asian diasporic community in Fiji over a 20-year period, examining the relationships among language, music, conflict, law, and politics—and cons... more »
Areas of expertise: Linguistics, Language and Linguistics
Biography, Education and Training
I am an Irish citizen, earned my BA at University College Dublin and my PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. I have held positions at University College Dublin, MIT, UC San Diego and UC Santa Cruz.
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Suz Howells
Director of Communications, Baskin Engineering
slhowell@ucsc.edu
Areas of expertise: Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Linguistics
Biography, Education and Training
Marilyn Walker, is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Cruz, and a fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), in recognition of her for fundamental contributions to statistical methods for dialog optimization, to centering theory, and to expressive generation for dialog. She is the Founder and Director of the Natural Language Processing Professional M.S. Program at UCSC Silicon Valley. Her current research includes work on computational models of dialogue inte... more »
Areas of expertise: French, Language Development, Linguistics, Language and Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
Biography, Education and Training
PhD, French linguistics, Indiana University (Bloomington), 2008
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