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Wren is a senior linguistics major focused on sociolinguistics and also interested in phonetics, minoring in Chinese. She's interested in the ways in which the world is created by language. Methodologically, she's most familiar with elicitations with speakers for language documentation (learned from taking phonetics and field methods), and sociolinguistic methods.

Kara particularly enjoys taking formant measurements in Praat, especially when you have to adjust the formant settings for each vowel. Here we see her with the LoL's youngest participant. His neck was unfortunately too narrow to strap the electroglottograph on.

Sameer is responsible for overseeing the procurement and maintenance of equipment. He enjoys reading spectrograms and drawing them by hand as secret messages. Here he is demonstrating the movement of the vocal folds during voicing.

Matt enjoys listening to recordings of Field Methods consultants and trying to work out if they’re producing a low tone or a downstepped tone. He doesn’t use the equipment in the LoL very much, but he sleeps better at night knowing it’s there.