Natasha Warner named 2011 Earl H. Carroll Magellan Circle Faculty Fellow

September, 2011: Natasha Warner was awarded an Earl Carroll Magellan Fellowship. Her work is on how humans communicate through the variability of conversational speech. In spontaneous, casual speech, many sounds are deleted: for example, "do you have time" can sound like "dyutem," "he was" can sound the same as "is," and "she'd be like" can sound like "shilleye." Still, even these very reduced pronunciations are completely intelligible when heard in context, and they allow speakers to convey information quickly, and to convey the fact that the conversation is casual. Warner's lab investigates such...