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Georgia Zellou, Ph.D.
Georgia Zellou, Ph.D.
Affiliated Faulty, Center for Mind & Brain, UC Davis
Affiliated Faulty, Center for Mind & Brain, UC Davis
Affiliated Faulty, French & Italian Department, UC Davis
Affiliated Faulty, French & Italian Department, UC Davis
Recent Awards/Honors:
Recent Awards/Honors:
Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America
2020-2023 Dean’s Fellow, UC Davis
2020-2023 Dean’s Fellow, UC Davis
2022 Fulbright Fellow, at Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France
2022 Fulbright Fellow, at Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France
2022 UC Davis Graduate Program Advising and Mentoring Award
2019 Chancellor’s Award in Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
2019 Chancellor’s Award in Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
Co-PI on National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, awarded to PI: Dr. Michelle Cohn, “Device-directed speech as a window into mechanisms of speech production: an investigation of adults and children.” (co-PI, with Zhou Yu and Katharine Graf Estes).
Co-PI on National Science Foundation SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, awarded to PI: Dr. Michelle Cohn, “Device-directed speech as a window into mechanisms of speech production: an investigation of adults and children.” (co-PI, with Zhou Yu and Katharine Graf Estes).
Contact:
Contact:
Office: 278 Kerr Hall
Office: 278 Kerr Hall
Email: gzellou@ucdavis.edu
Email: gzellou@ucdavis.edu
News and updates:
News and updates:
Georgia is PI on a National Science Foundation Grant (BCS-2140183). “The seeds and spread of sound change: Individual differences in coarticulatory patterns.”
New Monograph published!
Zellou (2022), Coarticulation in Phonology. Cambridge Elements in Phonology Series. Cambridge University Press.
Education:
Education:
M.A., Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY), 2007
M.A., Linguistics, Stony Brook University (SUNY), 2007
B.A., Linguistics & Anthropology (double major, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Florida, 2005
B.A., Linguistics & Anthropology (double major, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), University of Florida, 2005
Past Awards
Past Awards
2019 Amazon Faculty Research Award. "Applying human 'speech rules' to Alexa: Impact of acoustic-phonetic modifications on device engagement and perceived naturalness."
2019 Amazon Faculty Research Award. "Applying human 'speech rules' to Alexa: Impact of acoustic-phonetic modifications on device engagement and perceived naturalness."
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Seed Grant. "Using device-directed speech in children and adults to automatically detect autistic traits."
Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare Seed Grant. "Using device-directed speech in children and adults to automatically detect autistic traits."
NSF BCS-1822522. "Workshop: 5th Workshop on Sound Change: Sound change in endangered or small speech communities." (with Alan Yu, PI).
NSF BCS-1822522. "Workshop: 5th Workshop on Sound Change: Sound change in endangered or small speech communities." (with Alan Yu, PI).
Interdisciplinary Research Grant. "How infants learn from infant-directed speech". (with Katharine Graf Estes, PI).
Interdisciplinary Research Grant. "How infants learn from infant-directed speech". (with Katharine Graf Estes, PI).
Hellman Foundation Fellow, UC Davis, 2017-2018
Hellman Foundation Fellow, UC Davis, 2017-2018
ISS Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Davis, 2018
ISS Junior Faculty Research Grant, UC Davis, 2018
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies/ Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, May 2016.
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies/ Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, May 2016.
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