Kenna Nauman

•Linguistics and Language Acquisition Dept. at CWU.
My time in the department exposed me to opportunities in corpus lead research in linguistic analysis, language acquisition theory, Library Science and more.

•I'm Interested in Analytical Linguistics and comparable roles in tech spheres.

Work Modality Experiences
•Corpus Linguistics• Data Annotation• •Phonetics• Syntax•Semantics•Python•SQL•

My latest research project under Dr. Charles Li, reflecting Phonetic development in the English language as seen in speech and literary accomplishment. The involved methodology including text annotation, IPA transcription and translation, crafted ontologies, etc.

- Researched phonetic evolution of English comparing Proto-Indo European language families (PIE) starting from Old English (450 AD) to Modern English, and recorded ontologies on methodology and terms for future reference

- Identified 23 major phonetic changes along multiple indices by constructing and contrasting phoneme trees in each language, along with their causal ties to semantics, on a timeline starting in the 5th century AD

- Analyzed PIE languages (High German, Latin, the regional Saxons, etc.) that aligned in time with those phonetic changes by transcribing affixes and suffixes to assess their exhibited effects on English

- Transcribed and annotated time-accurate texts (like that of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales) in IPA in their native pronunciation to their Modern English translation and IPA transcription

- Established a finalized timeline and collection of transcribed works spanning ~1,500 years that represents English’s development in evolutionary phonetics

Central Washington University Linguistics Dept. BA

• Quantitative Phonetics Research
• Library Sciences
• Language Acquisition and Analysis