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Language Change and Migration in Cordele, GA

I was born in Cordele and most of my family is from there.

We moved when I was 6, and over the years I've noticed more and more families move away from the town.

Why? What consequneces does this have on language change?

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Minionese Speech Processing

Speech recogniton tools require an orthographic transcription of the language. What can we do for unwritten languages?

The minions speak an unwritten language, so I developed a pipline to process their speech and reconstruct phonological class

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Language and Names

See how sound features of your name influence a model's predictions of gender over time. Created on decades of US baby name data!

Based on the paper "Modeling Language Change in English First Names" (Williams, Savannah Jane, and Margaret Renwick. 2022)

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