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Jailyn Peña
Jailyn.Pena[at]lmu[dot]de
https://sites.google.com/view/jailynpena
EMPLOYMENT AND EDUCATION
Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Postdoctoral Researcher March 2024-Present
New York University
Ph.D. Linguistics September 2018-January 2024
University of Texas at Austin
B.A., Linguistics and B.A., Asian Cultures and Languages September 2014-May 2018
• Department Honors
• Thesis: “Clear Speech Enhancement by Beginning and Advanced Learners of Korean”
(Supervisor: Dr. Rajka Smiljanić)
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Peña, J. M. 2022. Stød Timing and Domain in Danish. Languages, 7(1), 50. MDPI AG. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/languages7010050
2021
Peña, J., Davidson, L., & Orosco, S. 2021. The independence of phrasal creak and segmental glottalization in American English. JASA Express Letters, 1(7), 075205. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005601
PROCEEDINGS PAPERS
2023
Peña, J. 2023. Effects of fundamental frequency and harmonics-to-noise ratio on the perception of Danish laryngealized phonation. Poster at ICPhS XX, Prague, Czech Republic. August 7 - 11. (poster) (proceedings paper)
INVITED TALKS
2023
Peña, J. 2023. (In)sensitive stød? Word length and stød realization. Talk presented at the 3rd Workshop on North Germanic Prosody, Aarhus, Denmark, September 9.
Peña, J. 2023. Phonetic features in the production and perception of stød. Seminar talk presented at Lund University, Sweden, March 9.
POSTERS
2022
Peña, J. 2022. Acoustic cues to the perception of Danish stød. Poster at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, TN. December 5 - 9.
Peña, J. & Levi, S. 2022. The impact of masker language and talker intelligibility on listeners' speech perception. Poster at the 2022 ASHA Convention in New Orleans, LA. November 17 - 19.
2021
Peña, J. & Levi, S. 2021. The impact of masker language and talker intelligibility on early bilingual listeners' speech perception. Poster at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, WA. November 29 - December 3.
Peña, J., Mason, A., & Davidson L. 2021. The effects of audio compression on voice quality measurements. Poster at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Seattle, WA. November 29 - December 3.
2020
Peña, J. 2020. Syllable shape effects on temporal aspects of the Danish stød. Poster at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics Virtually Everywhere (virtual). December 7-11.
Peña, J. 2020. Segmental Effects on Stød Timing and Domain in Danish. Poster at the Annual Meeting on Phonology, UC Santa Cruz (virtual). September 18-20.
Peña, J. & Davidson, L. 2020. The independence of phrasal creak and segmental glottalization in American English. Poster at Laboratory Phonology, University of British Columbia/Simon Fraser (virtual). July 6-8.
2019
Chatten, A., Peña, J., Baxter, K., Mas E., Tabachnick G., Duncan D. & MacKenzie, L. 2019. “I’ve always spoke(n) like this, you see”: Participle leveling in three corpora of English. Poster at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 48, University of Oregon. October 10-12.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Humboldt Research Fellowship March 2024-Present
Funding for postdoctoral research in Germany
MacCracken Doctoral Fellowship September 2018-May 2023
Funding for graduate research
Rapoport-King Thesis Scholarship August 2017-May 2018
Funding for undergraduate thesis research
CoLA UG Research Scholarship August 2018-December 2018
Funding for undergraduate thesis research
C. R. Smith Endowed Scholarship August 2016-May 2018
Awarded for exceptionally high academic merit
Department Honors May 2018
For exceptional grades and completing an honors thesis in Linguistics
TEACHING
Language and Society at New York University Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant under Laurel MacKenzie and Lisa Davidson
Sound and Language at New York University Fall 2021
Teaching Assistant under Maria Gouskova and Juliet Stanton
Language at New York University Fall 2020
Teaching Assistant under Juliet Stanton
English Dialects’ at New York University Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant under Laurel MacKenzie
SERVICE
Linguistics Association of NYU – President 2021- 2022
Serve as the primary contact for graduate students in NYU’s Linguistics department
Attend faculty meetings as the student representative
Coordinate events and projects including the department’s open house
Conference reviewer for SYNC – Reviewer 2021
Reviewed abstracts for graduate-led conference SYNC, 2021.
Content Creation – Statistics for Linguists 2020
Created materials for a self-led statistics course for current and future NYU Linguistics
students.
RESEARCH
Acoustic Phonetics and Perception Lab, NYU CSD Department – Researcher 2018-2024
Design and run speech perception experiments
Train undergraduate lab members on data scoring, acoustic analysis,
and experimental design
Write letters of recommendation for undergraduate research assistants
UT Sound Lab, University of Texas at Austin – Research Assistant 2016-2018
Administer and pilot speech production and perception experiments
Score participant data for analysis
Train new research assistants
LANGUAGES
English – Native
Korean – Intermediate
Danish – Basic
German – Basic
TECHNICAL SKILLS
R
Praat
VoiceSauce
Python
ELAN