Hi! My name is Mikaela. Welcome to my site!
I’m a fourth year Ph.D. candidate in linguistics at UPenn. Check out my website for more about me and my work.
What have I been up to?
New article on Race x Persona x Precision work!
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 presentations 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.
Poster presentation at HSP 39
My paper on race and person effects on imprecision (co-authored with Andrea Beltrama, Meredith Tamminga, and Florian Schwarz) was accepted as a poster presentation at the 39th annual meeting of Human Sentence Processing (HSP), held in Cambridge, MA.
Conference talk at NWAV 53
My paper on race and persona effects on imprecision (co-author: Andrea Beltrama) was accepted for a talk at the 53rd annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 53) in Ann Arbor, MI!
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