Research team

GEORGIA ZELLOU

Co-Director / Assistant Professor
UC Davis Department of Linguistics

SANTIAGO BARREDA

Co-Director / Assistant Professor
​UC Davis Department of Linguistics

MICHELLE COHN

NSF Postdoctoral Researcher, 
​Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology

KAYLA PALAKURTHY

NSF Postdoctoral Researcher, 
​Linguistics

ALEESE BLOCK

Doctoral student, Linguistics

ASHLEY KEATON

Doctoral student, Linguistics

NICOLE DODD
Doctoral student, ​Linguistics
NICHOLAS AOKI
Doctoral student, ​Linguistics

TYLER KLINE

Doctoral student, Linguistics

JULES VONESSEN
Doctoral student, ​Linguistics
EVE BOOKER
Doctoral student, ​Linguistics
KRIS PREDECK

Doctoral student, German

ETHAN CHAVEZ

Doctoral student, ​Linguistics

RILEY STRAY

Doctoral student, ​Linguistics

Research assistants

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(L>R): Michelle Cohn, Eva Clubb, Ruiqi Gan, Jazmina Chavez, Kris Predeck, Aleese Block, Georgia Zellou, Bryce Jacobs, Mia Fagan, Joia Gaskin, Isabelle Poux, Julian Robinson
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Fall 2019 Lab Meeting (L-> R from back to front): Riley Stray, Bryce Jacobs, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Aleese Block, Tyler Kline, Julian Rambob, Mia Fagan, Taylor Kim, Kris Predeck, Marlene Andrade, Melina Sarian, Jazmina Chavez, Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn
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2019 Winter Quarter RA Lab meeting! (L-R: Cassie Snyder, Chloe Brotherton, Michelle Cohn, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Georgia Zellou, Lauren Murvihill, Melina Sarian, Eleanor Lacaze, Maria Carroll, Marlene Andrade, & Patty Sandoval)
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Spring 2019: Melina Sarian (L) and Michelle Cohn (R) working on acoustic analysis in Praat
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July 2019 - Irene Ho (L) and Michelle Cohn (R) working on programming experiments through the Amazon Alexa Skills Kit

Collaborators

KATHARINE GRAF ESTES

Language Learning Lab 
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UC Davis Department of Psychology

ZHOU YU

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Lab 
​​​​UC Davis Department of Computer Science
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FERNANDA FERREIRA

Ferreira Lab 

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UC Davis Department of Psychology

ANNE PYCHA

Phonology Lab 
​
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

NORA BEIER

Ferreira Lab 
​
UC Davis Department of Psychology

SALLY OZONOFF

Infant Sibling Study

​UC Davis Mind Institute

BRIAN COHN

Brain-Body Dynamics Lab (Valero Lab)

USC Department of Computer Science

LAURA WAGNER

 Language Sciences Research Lab

Columbus Center of Science and Industry (COSI), Ohio State University

JONAS BESKOW

Furhat Robotics
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 
Department of Speech, Music, & Hearing
Stockholm, Sweden
PATRIK JONELL
KTH Royal Institute of Technology 
Department of Speech, Music, & Hearing
Stockholm, Sweden

Alumni

RENEE KEMP

PhD 2017

BRUNO FERENC SEGEDIN

MA 2021

MIRANDA MORRIS

MA 2014

JAZMINA CHAVEZ

MA 2021

ZION MENGESHA

BA 2017

MELINA SARIAN

BA 2019

Undergraduate alumni
  • Mia Fagan
  • ​Patty Sandoval
  • Isabelle Poux
  • Lora Kim
  • Taylor Kim​
  • Irene Ho
  • Divine Otico
  • Cassie Snyder
  • Maria Carroll
  • Lauren Murvihill  
  • Eleanor Lacaze
  • Nicole Yamashiro
  • Sage Lauwerys
  • Chantal De Leon
  • Steven Ilagan
  • Ingrid Rosenthal
  • Sam Davidson 
  • Irina Onisko
  • Shreya Venkatesan 
  • Katja Piscitelli
  • Melissa Mateo
  • Marlene Andrade
  • Julian Rambob
  • Bryce Jacobs
  • Eva Clubb
  • Ruiqi Gan
  • Joia Gaskin
  • Naina Narain
  • ​Julian Robinson
  • ​Shelly Yang
  • Diana Olivan
  • Lin Lin
  • Sheng En Hsieh