I am a fifth-year graduate student in the linguistics department at Northwestern University. I’m interested in sociolinguistics, prosody, language change and acoustic phonetics. My research primarily involves using techniques from laboratory phonology and psycholinguistics to study how speech changes across social situations. My goal is to help situate the social aspects of language within the broader field of cognitive science.
I am currently being advised by Dr. Jennifer Cole, and am also a member of the Northwestern Linguistics Department’s Sociogroup, led by Dr. Annette D’Onofrio.
Before coming to Northwestern, I received a B.A. in linguistics and cognitive science from the University of Georgia. I worked with Dr. Margaret Renwick and Joey Stanley to write my B.A. Thesis, “Conditioned Front-Vowel Mergers in the American South.”
contact:
shawnfoster2023@u.northwestern.edu