Position Title
PhD Candidate
Position Title
PhD Candidate
Kerr 196
Education and Degree(s)
- PhD in Linguistics | University of California, Davis (2024)
- MA in Linguistics | University of California, Davis (2021)
- BA in Linguistics & Global Studies | University of California, Santa Barbara (2016)
Honors and Awards
- 2023-2025 | Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF)
- 2022-2023 | Leaders for the Future Fellowship, UC Davis Graduate Studies
- 2022 | Suad Joseph Grant for Research, UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies
- 2022 | Steven G. Lapointe Award, UC Davis Department of Linguistics
- 2020 | Data Scholarship, UPenn Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC)
Courses
- TA, LIN 001 Intro to Linguistics (Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2023; Spring 2024)
- TA, LIN 177 Computational Linguistics (Spring 2021, Summer 2023)
- TA, ECS 188 Ethics in the Age of Technology (Fall 2020, Winter 2021)
Research Interests & Expertise
- Computational psycholinguistics
- Human processing of natural languages (e.g., Arabic)
- Human processing of programming languages (e.g., Java)
- Human-computer interaction with voice artificial intelligence (voice-AI)
- Standard Arabic
Publications
- Dodd, N., Cohn, M., and Zellou, G. (2023). Comparing alignment toward American, British, and Indian English text-to-speech (TTS) voices: influence of social attitudes and talker guise. Frontiers in Computer Science. 5:1204211. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2023.1204211
- Dodd, N., & Morgan, E. (2022). Expectations and Noisy-Channel Processing of Relative Clauses in Arabic. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44).
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