Ph.D. Student
Contact Info
Keiko is a first-year Ph.D. student specializing in sociophonetics. Her research interests include variationist approaches to dialects of American English, specifically rural Southern American English. She also has research experience in psycholinguistics.
Education:
Keiko graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2019 with a M.A. in Linguistics, and in 2017 with a BARSC degree.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications:
Bridwell, K. (2019). The Distribution of [ʍ]: An Acoustic Analysis of Sociophonetic Factors Governing the Wine-Whine Merger in Southern American English (Master’s thesis).
Dalola, A. and Bridwell, K. (in press). The shape of [u]: Towards a Typology of Final Vowel Devoicing in Continental French. In ICPhS 2019.