Daylen Riggs

PhD student in linguistics

Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California

 

Contact:

Email: daylenri at usc dot edu

Mail:

3601 Watt Way, GFS 301

Los Angeles, CA 90089

 

Education

B.A. magna cum laude, 2004.  University of Southern California.  Linguistics

M.A. 2007.  University of Southern California.  Linguistics

 

Publications

D. Byrd, S. Lee, D. Riggs, and J. Adams. (2005) Interacting effects of syllable and phrase position on consonant articulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 118(6), 3860-3873.

D. Byrd & D. Riggs (2008) Locality interactions with prominence in determining the scope of phrasal lengthening.  Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 38, 187-202.

D. Riggs (2008)  Contrast Preservation in the Yupik Languages.  Proceedings of the thirty-seventh Western Conference in Linguistics, WECOL 2007, Volume 18.  Eds.: R. Colavin, K. Cooke, K. Davidson, S. Fukuda, A. Del Guidice.  217-234.

 

Conference Presentations

D. Riggs (2007)  Contrast Preservation in the Yupik Languages.  Oral presentation at WECOL 2007.  San Diego, CA, December 2007.

D. Riggs (2008)  Contrast Preservation in Yupik.  Oral Presentation at the Annual LSA Meeting.  Chicago, IL, January 2008.

D. Riggs and D. Byrd (2008, invited oral presentation) The scope of phrasal lengthening in articulation: Prosody and prominence. Conference on Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008.

 

Poster Presentations

S. Lee, D. Byrd, J. Adams, D. Riggs. (2004) Interacting effects of phrasal and syllable position on consonant production. Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, California, November 2004. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116(4,2): 2643.

E. Bresch, D. Riggs, L. Goldstein, D. Byrd, S. Lee, & S. Narayanan (2008)  An analysis of vocal tract shaping in English sibilant fricatives using real-time magnetic resonance imaging.  Interspeech 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008.

D. Riggs (2008)  Opacity in Icelandic:  Transparency and OT with Candidate Chains.  NELS 39.  Ithaca, NY, November 2008.

 

Grants and Awards

2004.  USC undergraduate summer research stipend.

2005-2007.  USC Provost fellowship.

2008.  NSF travel grant to LabPhon 11.

 

Academic/Research Positions

Summer 2006.  Research assistant for Professor Dani Byrd.  NIH project: Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language.

Summer 2006.  Research assistant for Professor Shrikanth Narayanan.  Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI).

Summer 2007.  Research assistant for Professor Dani Byrd. NIH project: Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language.

Summer 2007 – Spring 2008.  Research assistant for Professor Shrikanth Narayanan.  NIH project:  Dynamics of vocal tract shaping (MRI).

Summer 2008.  Research assistant for Professor Dani Byrd.  NIH project: Prosody and articulatory dynamics in spoken language.

 

Teaching Positions

Fall 2006.  Teaching assistant for Linguistics 275:  Langauge and Mind.  Profs.:  Dani Byrd and Toben Mintz.

Fall 2008.  Teaching assistant for Thematic Option 103:  The Process of Change in Science.  Prof. Edward Finegan.

 

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