Elise Bell Receives EAPSI Fellowship from the National Science Foundation

Congratulations to Elise Bell, recipient of an East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) fellowhip from the National Science Foundation!Elise will be working with Dr. Brett Baker and Dr. Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen at the University of Melbourne's Department of Languages and Linguistics to investigate the sound system of Roper Kriol, a native Australian language. They will be working with young speakers of Roper Kriol in the Northern Territory. The vocabulary of Roper Kriol is very similar to that of English, but the acoustic features that Kriol speakers use to distinguish consonants differ from the distinctions used in English....