Education

Ph.D in Linguistics, UC Davis     

Advisor Dr. Georgia Zellou 

Committee Members Dr. Santiago Barreda & Dr. Katie Graf-Estes                                                 

September 2020–June 2022

B.A. in Spanish Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno     

Magna cum laude, in cursu honorum               

August 2016–June 2019

Honors College, University of Nevada, Reno                                  

Advisor Dr. Casilde Isabelli & Dr. Gerald McMenamin

August 2016–June 2019

Nowenstein, I., … Keaton, A.R. (In prep). Cross-linguistic markers of cognitive decline across typologically diverse languages. Planned submission to the special edition of Cortex: Language disorders in understudied languages. 

Keaton, A.R., & Zellou, G. (in press). Exploring variation in sociolinguistic evaluation across human and machine talkers. Linguistics Vanguard.

Cohn, M., Keaton, A., Beskow, J., & Zellou, G. (2023). Vocal accommodation to technology: the role of physical form. Language Sciences, 99.

Keaton, A.R. (2021). You have the right to keep quiet: Translation inadequacies in Nevada’s Spanish Miranda warnings. Language and Law, 7(1-2).

Keaton, A. (2019). An initial study of the Spanish Miranda warnings in the state of Nevada. University of Nevada, Reno Press. 

Breen, J., Keaton, A., C. Juárez, G. McMenamin, J. Mohundro, J. Mora, J. Nieves, A. Tan (2019). A student mock trial in forensic linguistics. Linguagem e Direito, 6(2).

Presentations

Filipovic-Hawkins, L., … Keaton, A.R. (2026). Issues in the multilingual “Miranda" warnings. 

Invited panel presentation, American Psychology and Law Society.

Keaton, A.R., & Zellou, G. (2026). Computers across the lifespan: Age effects in the perception of linguistic variation in voice-AI. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting.

Nowenstein, I., … Keaton, A.R., et al. (2025). Speech and language markers of cognitive decline and neurodegeneration: Generalizability across languages. Society of the Neurobiology of Language. 

Keaton, A. R., Barreda, S., & Zellou, G. (2025). Sociolinguistic Evaluations are Mediated by Listener Belief about Apparent Humanness. Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting. 

Keaton, A. R., & Zellou, G. (2024). Differences in social perceptions of (ING) across human and device voices. Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. 

Keaton, A. R., & Zellou, G. (2022). Investigating the Effect of Synthetic Voice Naturalness on Gist Memory.

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 44(44).

Keaton, A. (2019). An initial study of the Spanish Miranda warnings in Nevada. Nevada Undergraduate Research Symposium. Poster Presentation.

Breen, J., Keaton, A., et al. (2019). A mock trial experience for student expert-linguists: The case of “negrito.” 

Georgetown University Round Table: Linguistics and the Public Good. Panel Presentation.

Research Experience

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Maryland, Baltimore County       

Supervised by Dr. Christine Mallinson and Dr. Vandana Janeja

September 2025–present

Doctoral Researcher, UC Davis

Advisor Dr. Georgia Zellou

September 2020–September 2025

Visiting Scholar, University of Iceland Department of Linguistics

In collaboration with Dr. Iris Nowenstein 

May 2025

Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis

Supervised by Dr. David Corina

January 2024–September 2024

Graduate Student Researcher, UC Davis (Industry Collaboration)

Supervised by Dr. Georgia Zellou

June 2021–September 2021

Honors Student Researcher, Nevada Undergraduate Research Office

Supervised by Rosemary Diaz Preciado

August 2018–June 2019

Undergraduate Researcher,  University of Nevada, Reno              

Supervised by Dr. Gerald McMenamin

December 2018–August 2019                                        

Professional Experience

Translation Intern, Northern Nevada Immigration Services

April 2018–August 2019

Invited Lectures

"I collected a lot of data and I don't know what to do with it": Making Sense of Survey Data. 

Data Drama Working Group, UC Davis. November 2025.

Honors and Awards

UC Davis

University of California, Davis Graduate Research Award

April 2024

Steven G. Lapointe Award                                                                 

June 2022

Research Travel Award                                                                 

June 2022, October 2023, & October 2024

University of Nevada, Reno

World Languages Departmental Award

May 2019

Nevada Undergraduate Research Travel Grant                                         

January 2019

Honors Undergraduate Research Award                                                      

December 2018

Nevada State Access Grant                                                                              

August 2018

College of Liberal Arts Dean’s List                                        

2016 to 2019

Presidential Scholar                                                              

2016 to 2019

Millennium Scholar                                                             

2016 to 2019