People
Dr. Olga Dmitrieva
Lab Director
Dr. Olga Dmitrieva is an Associate Professor in the School of Languages and Cultures and the Department of Linguistics and the director of the Phonetics and Phonology lab at Purdue University. Her research interests are Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Perception, Laboratory Phonology, Phonetics of Bilingualism, and Second Language Acquisition.
Email: odmitrie@purdue.edu
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Ye-Jee Jung
Ye-Jee is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. Her research interests are foreign-accented speech in general and clear speech. She did studies on Korean-accented English clear speech and is now working on the L1-L2 transfer in clear speech produced by bilingual speakers.
Email: jung292@purdue.edu
Alexis Zhou
Alexis Zhou is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the linguistics department at Purdue. Her main research interests include phonetics & phonology, second language acquisition, Chinese linguistics, and Japanese linguistics.
Email: atews@purdue.edu
Yuhyeon Seo
Yuhyeon is a Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at Purdue University. He specializes in experimental phonetics and phonology, with his research primarily focused on how being bilingual affects speech production and perception in the long and short term. In the long term, he investigates how a second language can influence the phonetics and phonology of one's first language over a lifetime. In the short term, he examines the phonetic interactions that occur during code-switching.
Email: seo86@purdue.edu
Chien-Min Kuo
Chien-Min Kuo is a second-year Ph.D. student in Linguistics at Purdue University. His research interest is in the phonetics of second language acquisition. He is especially interested in how Mandarin speakers’ production of English vowels correlates with the comprehensibility of their speech in English.
Email: kuo79@purdue.edu
Amy Hutchinson (Ph.D.)
Alumni
Dissertation: Hutchinson, A. (2022). The effect of foreign film on the production and perception of non-native speech, Purdue University.
Jenna Conklin (Ph.D.)
Alumni
Dissertation: Conklin, J. T. (2019). The roles of vowel harmony and stress in predicting vowel-to-vowel coarticulation, Purdue University.
Suzy Ahn
Friend of the lab
Visiting scholar during Spring 2018. Suzy completed her Ph.D. in Linguistics at NYU and now holds a teaching position at UCLA.
Josh Weirick
Friend of the lab
Josh is a Purdue Linguistics Alum who was a research assistant in the Phonetics and Phonology lab Fall 2017. He is now a post-doc in the Aphasia Research Lab in the department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences at Purdue.
Email: jweiric@purdue.edu
Valentina Concu
Friend of the lab
Valentina is a Purdue German Linguistics Alum who previously collaborated on lab projects. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia
Email: vconcu@unitnorte.edu.co
Gina Marcela Pineda Mora
Friend of the lab
Gina was a visiting student from the Purdue-Colombia Undergraduate Research Initiative program in the summer and fall of 2017. She is currently a graduate student at the University of British Columbia.
Email: gmpinedam@unal.edu.co
Wai Ling (Christie) Law
Friend of the lab
Purdue Linguistics Alum, now Lecturer in English for Academic purposes at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Anthony Faulkner
Previous Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Intern
AY 2019-2020. Currently, an undergraduate student majoring in linguistics at Purdue University
Clara Villion
Previous Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Intern
AY 2019-2020. Currently an undergraduate student at Purdue University
Trey Jagiella
Previous Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Intern
AY 2017-2018. Now a graduate student in linguistics at Indiana University
Alexis Tews
Previous Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Intern
AY 2016-2017. Now a graduate student in linguistics at Purdue University
Emilie Watson
Previous Margo Katherine Wilke Undergraduate Research Intern
AY 2014-2015. Emilie has since completed both a B.A. and an M.A. in German Linguistics from Purdue University.