Graduate students
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Emilio Ayala-Enriquez
Research Assistant Emilio is a second-year MA student in Linguistics and has his BA in International Studies, German Studies, and Music from Coe College. His research interests are primarily centered around bilingualism in the United States, with an emphasis on the Latinx community. |
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Emma Kealey
Research Assistant Emma is in her second year of the joint BA/MA Linguistics program. She is primarily interested in syntax and phonology. She is currently working on a project that investigates how heritage speakers process grammatical gender, and on a dual task study that tests the listening effort of monolingual, heritage, and L2 speakers of Spanish. |
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John Kessler
Research Assistant John Kessler is from Nashville, Tennessee, and is pursuing an MA in Linguistics at the University of Iowa. His areas of interest in research include language perception and processing, and first- and second-language acquisition. |
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Osama Khalid
Research Assistant Osama is a second year PhD student in Computer Science. His research deals with the intersection of technology and society, understanding how social mores evolve with evolving technology. His work primarily looks at how language develops in online spaces and how it is used by online communities to construct their identities. Osama is also a member of the NLP@UIowa research group. Focused on the language politics of underprivileged communities, his current research is concerned with understanding and mitigating algorithmic biases that negatively impact these communities. |
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Alyssa Michel
Research Assistant Alyssa is a second-year MA student in Linguistics at the University of Iowa. Her research interests are grammatical gender and second language acquisition. |
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Onae Parker
Research Assistant Onae is a first-year PhD student in Linguistics, with an MA and BA from the University of Iowa. Her research interests are in heritage phonology and language acquisition. |
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Kezia Walker-Cecil
Research Assistant Kezia is a fifth-year PhD student in Linguistics and has a BA in Linguistics and French from UIowa and an MA in Linguistics from Florida International Universities. Her research interests are primarily in syntax and second language acquisition, with an emphasis on experimental methodology. She is currently investigating the perception of stop consonants in Nepali-English bilinguals and the impact of L1 transfer on the acquisition of multi-word verbs in French and English L2 learners. |
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Luke Whitaker
Research Assistant Luke Whitaker, originally from Keokuk, Iowa, is a current MA student in the Department of Linguistics here at the University of Iowa. His research interests lay in the interface between Syntax/Pragmatics. He is currently working on a thesis project that focuses on the information structure of left-dislocations in French. |
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Wenqi Zeng
Research Assistant Wenqi is a second-year PhD student in Linguistics and has her MA in Linguistics at UI as well. Her primary research interests are in experimental phonetics and phonology, with an emphasis on (L1 and bilingual) speech processing. She is currently working on the production and perception of tones in Mandarin dialects. |
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Saloni Upadhyay
Undergraduate Lab Assistant Saloni is from Mumbai, India and is a sophomore majoring in Speech and Hearing Science with a minor in American Sign Language. As a trilingual, she has always been fascinated by languages and the language development process. She hopes to deepen her understanding of this as an undergraduate and continue this interest into her future career. |
