Riley VanMeter
Riley VanMeter
PhD. Candidate in Romance Languages and Linguistics
The University of California, Berkeley
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About Me
About Me
PhD researcher in linguistics and applied data science at UC Berkeley, specializing in grammatical variation and change across Romance languages. My work sits at the intersection of language, sociology, cognitive science, and applied ML — I build statistical and machine learning models in Python and R (regression, classification, mixed-effects modeling) on large, real-world language datasets, and design experiments to test behavioral and linguistic hypotheses.
I hold an M.A. in Romance Linguistics and a B.A. in International Business and Spanish, and bring experience translating complex analytical findings for both academic and non-specialist audiences.
Academic Research Interests
Academic Research Interests
Morphosyntactic change and variation, grammaticalization, quantitative data science and experimental methodology, sociolinguistics, comparative Romance linguistics/grammars, historical (socio-)linguistics, usage-based grammar, corpus linguistics, languages in contact.
Academic CV
Academic CV
VanMeter_Curriculum_Vitae (18).pdfCV: Updated May 2026
CV: Updated May 2026
Industry Resume
Industry Resume
BASE_Resume_Industry_4/13/2026.pdfResume: Updated April 2026
Resume: Updated April 2026
Selected Documents, Publications, Code, and Presentations
Selected Documents, Publications, Code, and Presentations
Analysis of Chicago Food Safety Inspection- Used ML models to predict passing/failing a safety inspection- Project for SOCIO 273: Computational Social Science
‘Quantifying User Perceptions of Grammatical Variants via A/B Testing’- Applied A/B tests and Qualtrics surveys to assess perceptions of alternative grammatical forms, using classification trees and regression models to identify key predictors of user judgments.
DoneNWAV!!template_postersession36x48 (1) 2.pdfQuantifying grammaticalization via translation: The position of Lo Cunto de li Cunti’s Neapolitan on the Romance grammaticalization cline
Quantifying grammaticalization via translation: The position of Lo Cunto de li Cunti’s Neapolitan on the Romance grammaticalization cline
Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 51
CP.7.pdfSociolinguistic Variation of Se Lo(s) in Mexican Spanish: A Corpus-based Approach to Selosismo in Flux
Sociolinguistic Variation of Se Lo(s) in Mexican Spanish: A Corpus-based Approach to Selosismo in Flux
Published in Coyote Papers 25: Proceedings of ALC 16
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