MADELEINE OAKLEY
MADELEINE OAKLEY
I am a PhD candidate at Georgetown University, focusing on Phonetics and Phonology. My research interests include second language acquisition, perception and production of non-native phones, and Laboratory Phonology.
PRESENTATIONS
ARTICULATORY GESTURES AND ACOUSTIC CATEGORY TRANSFER IN NON-NATIVE SPEECH PRODUCTION
UltraFest IX; October 2020
REPRESENTING IMPLOSIVES: GRADIENT FEATURES FOR AMBIGUOUS SEGMENTS
Berkley Linguistics Society; February 2020 [presentation with Hannah Sande]
IMPLOSIVES AS EVIDENCE FOR EMERGENT FEATURES
Linguistic Society of American Annual Meeting; January 2020 [presentation with Hannah Sande]
ARTICULATION OF L2 FRENCH MID AND HIGH VOWELS
ICPhS 2019; August 2019
ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF STRESS IN AMHARIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
ICPhS; August 2019 [presentation with Hannah Sande and Maya L. Barzilai]
ACOUSTIC CORRELATES TO CONTRASTIVE TONE HEIGHTS IN TWO AFRICAN LANGAUGES
50th Annual Conference of African Linguistics; May 2019
SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNERS' ARTICULATION OF FRENCH MID AND HIGH VOWELS
Réseau Français de Phonologie (RFP); June 2019
LIVING, WORKING, AND SPEAKING WITH THE GUÉBIE COMMUNITY OF CÔTE D'IVOIRE
Presentation at the Smithsonian Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage; April 2019 [presentation with Hannah Sande and Ivy Wang]
LEARNING FROM EXPERIMENT EXPERIENCE: HOW TO RUN PHONETIC EXPERIMENTS IN THE FIELD
ICLDC6; March 2019 [presentation with Hannah Sande]
ULTRASOUND TONGUE IMAGING AND THE L2 ACQUISITION OF THE FRENCH /Y/-/U/ CONTRAST
Second Language Research Forum; October 2018
PHONOLOGY AND PERCEPTION OF IMPLOSIVES IN GUÉBIE (KRU)
World Congress of African Linguistics; August 2018 [presentation with Hannah Sande]
THE LINK BETWEEN PHONOLOGICAL PATTERNING AND PERCEPTION OF IMPLOSIVE CONSONANTS
LabPhon16; June 2018 [presentation with Hannah Sande]
ARTICULATORY STRATEGIES IN ACQUISITION OF THE FRENCH /Y/-/U/ CONTRAST
LabPhon16; June 2018
NON-NATIVE PERCEPTION OF VIETNAMESE TONE CONTRASTS
174th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America; December 2017
MORAIC STRUCTURE OF GEMINATES IN SINHALA ANIMATE NOUNS
Manchester Phonology Meeting; May 2017
PAPERS
ACOUSTIC CORRELATES TO CONTRASTIVE TONE HEIGHTS IN TWO AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Accepted: ACAL50 Proceedings
GUÉBIE PHONETICS
Submitted; Journal of the IPA [with Hannah Sande and Alexandra Pfiffner]
ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF STRESS IN AMHARIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR PHONOLOGICAL ANALYS
Sande, H., Barzilai, M. L., Oakley, M. ICPhS proceedings, 2019
ARTICULATORY STRATEGIES IN THE ACQUISITION OF THE FRENCH /Y/-/U/ CONTRAST
Second Qualifying Paper
SINHALA ANIMATE AND INANIMATE NOUNS
First Qualifying Paper
INSTRUCTOR, SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE
Spring 2020
TEACHING ASSISTANT, SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE
Fall 2019
INSTRUCTOR, INTRO TO LANGUAGE
Fall 2018
RESEARCH ASSISTANT; EXPERIMENTAL PHONETICS
Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2019
TEACHING ASSISTANT, INTRO TO LANGUAGE
Spring 2017
TEACHING ASSISTANT, HOW LANGUAGES ARE LEARNED
Fall 2016
TEACHING ASSISTANT, INTRO TO LANGUAGE
Spring 2016
EDUCATION
BA, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
2010-2014
BA in Linguistics; BA in French with special honors; minor in Mathematics
MS, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
2015-2017
MS in General Linguistics
LET'S CONNECT
Washington, DC, USA