Goals
WILL RETURN FALL 2023
With an approval from the Georgia Tech IRB, we are in the process of building and transcribing a corpus of recorded audio interviews with Georgia Tech students. (So far, we have recorded and transcribed 25 interviews, but we aim for over 100 to get enough data for each of the different demographic and political affiliations that interest us.) We use phonetic software to measure the position of the tongue in the mouth when producing vowels to quantify the idea of a “southern accent” to explore the hypothesis that more-conservative young Georgians may use more-“southern” accents. We are also conducting perception studies, gathering data on how “southern” people sound, to explore whether the perceived “southernness” of their accent correlates with phonetic measurements and/or with perceptions of their race/ethnicity and/or how “conservative” or “liberal” they sound. Broadly, this project explores the role of (political) ideology in accents and language change. Students build skills in interviewing, data management, qualitative and quantitative analysis, web surveys/experiments, phonetic measurements, statistics, and the presentation of academic results to varied audiences.
Issues Involved or Addressed
Language, politics, society, linguistics, psychology, demographics, speech
Methods and Technologies
Academic Majors of Interest
- Business›Accounting
- Business›Finance
- Business›General Management
- Business›Global Development
- Business›IT Management
- Business›Leadership and Organizational Change
- Business›Marketing
- Business›Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Business›Strategy and Innovation
- Computing›Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
- Computing›Analytics
- Computing›Computational Media
- Computing›Computational Science and Engineering
- Computing›Computer Science
- Computing›Cybersecurity
- Computing›Human-Centered Computing
- Computing›Human-Computer Interaction
- Computing›OMSCS asynchronous
- Computing›OMSCS asynchronous, case-by-case
- Computing›OMSCS synchronous
- Computing›OMSCS synchronous, case-by-case
- Design›Architectural Technology
- Design›Architecture
- Design›Building Construction
- Design›Building Construction and Facility Management
- Design›City and Regional Planning
- Design›Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Design›Industrial Design
- Design›Music Technology
- Design›Urban Design
- Engineering›Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering›Applied Systems Engineering
- Engineering›Bioengineering
- Engineering›Bioinformatics
- Engineering›Biomedical Engineering
- Engineering›Chemical Engineering
- Engineering›Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Engineering›Civil Engineering
- Engineering›Computer Engineering
- Engineering›Electrical Engineering
- Engineering›Environmental Engineering
- Engineering›Health Systems
- Engineering›Industrial Engineering
- Engineering›International Logistics
- Engineering›Machine Learning
- Engineering›Materials Science and Engineering
- Engineering›Mechanical Engineering
- Engineering›Medical Physics
- Engineering›Robotics
- Ivan Allen›Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies
- Ivan Allen›Chinese
- Ivan Allen›Digital Media
- Ivan Allen›Economics
- Ivan Allen›Economics and International Affairs
- Ivan Allen›French
- Ivan Allen›German
- Ivan Allen›Global Economics and Modern Languages
- Ivan Allen›Global Media and Cultures
- Ivan Allen›History, Technology, and Society
- Ivan Allen›International Affairs
- Ivan Allen›International Affairs and Modern Languages
- Ivan Allen›International Affairs, Science, and Technology
- Ivan Allen›Japanese
- Ivan Allen›Korean
- Ivan Allen›Literature, Media, and Communication
- Ivan Allen›Public Policy
- Ivan Allen›Spanish
- Other›Education
- Other›Entrepreneurship
- Other›Film and Media Studies
- Other›Music
- Other›Pre-Law
- Physics
- Sciences›Applied Physics
- Sciences›Applied Physiology
- Sciences›Biochemistry
- Sciences›Biology
- Sciences›Chemistry
- Sciences›Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Sciences›Mathematics
- Sciences›Neuroscience
- Sciences›Physics
- Sciences›Psychology
- Sciences›Statistics
Preferred Interests and Preparation
Language / Society / Politics
Experience with or willingness to learn qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills.
Completion of LING 2100 (Intro to Linguistics) not a strict requirement.
Meeting Schedule & Location
Team Advisors
- Modern Languages