Our department was proud to be represented at the Acoustical Society of America's 190th Meeting (ASA 190) in Philadelphia by Austin Jones, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Research Assistant. Austin presented two collaborative research posters, co-authored with fellow researchers, examining speech technology and linguistic variation in Istro-Venetian, an endangered descendant of Venetian Italian spoken in Croatia. One project compared neural and non-neural approaches to forced alignment, exploring how emerging speech technologies can support research on low-resource languages. The second used neural network analysis to investigate patterns of phonological variation across Istro-Venetian fricatives, providing new insights into how linguistic and social factors influence speech production. We are excited to see Austin sharing this collaborative research with scholars from around the world and representing UGA Linguistics on a national stage!
