Will Styler
william.styler (at) colorado (dot) edu
I’m a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, in the Department of Linguistics. My specialization is Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics, but I live a double life, working extensively in computational processing of medical records and language as well. Simply put, vowels bring me joy, and computer analysis of language fascinates me.
I’ve completed an MA thesis exploring the role of context in vowel perception and speaker normalization, and am now working to complete a Ph.D in Linguistics, likely continuing to examine vowel perception and the means by which we can adjust to the vocal characteristics of unfamiliar speakers. Simply put, I’m trying to come up with a slightly more concrete understanding of across-speaker vowel perception than “it’s magic!”
I’ve also been working as a research assistant, doing both data analysis and programming for Dr. Rebecca Scarborough in the CU Phonetics Lab and schema design and annotation supervision for Dr. Martha Palmer and CLEAR.
As a side project, I’m also the maintainer of the EnronSent email corpus, a cleaned subset of data from the Enron corpus of email. If you have questions, or simply need information on the data there, please do send me an email.
In my free time, I write fiction, play the Hammered and Mountain Dulcimer, play with computers and open-source software, watch the cute little birds on my patio, and watch symbols and ideas flit through different cultures, wearing a different outfit at each appearance. I also maintain (when I can) a language blog, Notes from a Linguistic Mystic.
Please feel free to use the navigation links at the top of this page for more information about me and my research, and have a resoundingly pleasant day.
