Research Projects
Completed Projects
Phonological treatment of affricates in Yiddish
Investigation of treatment of affricates in Yiddish. Particularly, the sequence/segment and phoneme/allophone status and ts, tʃ , and dz. Compiled word lists and interviewed native speakers. Extended findings to motivate various underlying universal representations of the affricate.
Conference Presentations
Goldberg, Jack (2021) "Yiddish Treatment of Affricates and Segmental Analysis," Proceedings of Cornell Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquium 15
Goldberg, Jack (2021) "Phonological Treatment of Affricates in Yiddish," Proceedings of Midphon 25
Current Projects
Analysis of articulatory setting for L1 and L2 English speakers using MRI data
Joint work with Kevin Huang
Analysis of how country of acquisition of English effects speaker's articulatory setting of English. Presented an automated pipeline for measurement of articulatory setting in multiple constriction locations in an MRI corpus. This pipeline was then applied, alongside statistical analysis, to examine the USC 75 speaker MRI corpus. Results indicated that the country of English acquisition significantly influenced articulatory settings in many places of articulation in terms of articulator distance.
Vowel harmony and consonant assimilation in Bashkir, a phonological analysis
Phonological analysis of suffix morphology in Bashkir, a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in Bashkortostan, Russia. The investigation is carried out through elicitation sessions and data collection with Bashkir speakers in the Los Angeles area. Upon collection, the focus lies on delving into the intricate consonant assimilation and vowel harmony, specifically within nominal case morphology. Particular attention is paid to unconventional consonant natural classes, re-syllabification, and exceptional instances of vowel rounding harmony.