Mikaela Belle Martin (she/they/he)
I’m a sociopragmaticist and fourth year Ph.D. student in linguistics at UPenn. My main line of work focuses on the influence of race on pragmatic interpretation. I also do work on stylistic covariation, AAE semantics, and the development and semantics of Gullah.
What have I been up to?
New article on Race x Persona x Precision work in Penn Today!
Read about my race and precision work and what’s up next for me as I enter the dissertation stage in a new article in Penn Today! Writing credit to Erica Moser.
Upcoming conference talks at NWAV 54
My recent papers on using eye-tracking to investigate race and persona effects on imprecision (co-author: Florian Schwarz) and the substratal origins of Gullah copula da (co-authors: Marlyse Baptista, Paloma Jeretič) were accepted to the 54th annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 54) in Montreal, CAN!
Poster presentation at ELM 4
My paper (co-authored with Andrea Beltrama) was accepted as a poster presentation to the 4th annual meeting of Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM 4), held in Philadelphia, PA.
© 2026 Mikaela Belle Martin
