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Sarah Bakst
Department of Linguistics
Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley, CA 94709
Email: [email protected]
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~bakst
Education
2014-present
2012-2014
2011-2012
2007-2011
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley.
M.A. in Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley.
Advisor: Keith Johnson.
M.Phil. with Distinction in Linguistics, University of Cambridge, Trinity College.
Thesis: “Rhotics and Retroflexes in Indic and Dravidian.”
Supervisor: Francis Nolan.
A.B. Magna cum laude in Linguistics (secondary field Classics), Harvard University.
Thesis: “Clique-y Clitics: Accentuation in Ancient Greek Enclitics and Clitic Groups.”
Advisors: Jay Jasanoff and Michael Becker.
Grants, honors and awards
2014-2015
2013
2011
2011
2010
2010
2010
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) academic year fellowship for Tamil.
Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship, provided tuition for
summer institute at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Herchel Smith Scholarship for M.Phil (Masters) at Trinity College, Cambridge
Phi Beta Kappa.
Harvard College John Harvard Scholar, top 10 percent of class.
David Rockefeller International Experience Grant, internship at King’s College,
Cambridge.
Harvard-Cambridge Undergraduate Summer Fellowship, internship at King’s College, Cambridge.
Publications and talks
Invited talks
2013
2012
Bakst, S. “Phonetic evidence for the phonological patterning of [X]”, Stanford Phonetics and Phonology Workshop.
Bakst, S. “Retroflexes in Indic and Dravidian”, Trinity College, Cambridge Arts
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and Humanities Symposium.
Conferences
Accepted
2015
2014
2014
2014
Bakst, S. and Lin, S. “An Ultrasound investigation into articulatory variation in
American /r/ and /s/.” Poster to be presented at the International Congress of
Phonetic Sciences, August 10-14, Glasgow, UK.
Bakst, S. “Cue-weighting in retroflex and dental perception by Hindi and Tamil
listeners.” Talk presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, June 29-30, Cambridge, UK.
Bakst, S. “Accounting for variation in Tamil retroflex articulation.” Poster presented at the Sound Change in Interacting Human Systems Workshop on Sound
Change, Berkeley, CA.
Johnson, K., Bakst, S., and Minas, E. “Audio/visual correlates of a vowel nearmerger in the Bay Area.” Poster presented at the Acoustical Society of America
Conference, Providence, RI.
Bakst, S. and Katz, J. “A phonetic basis for the sonority of [X].” Talk presented at
the 50th Annual meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL.
Publications
Accepted
2012
Bakst, S. and Katz, J. “A phonetic basis for the sonority of [X].” To appear in The
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society.
Bakst, S. “Rhotics and Retroflexes in Indic and Dravidian”, UC Berkeley Phonology
Lab Annual Report.
Work and Mentoring experience
Spring 2014present
2012
Linguistics Research Apprenticeship Program (pairing of linguistics graduate mentors with undergraduate research apprentices). Projects: Ultrasound study of articulatory variation in coronals (Fa 2015); Cue-weighting with Hindi synthesized speech
continuum (Fa 2014); Fricatives as bearers of cues to adjacent consonants (Sp 2014).
Speech technology work at Toshiba, Science Park, Cambridge, UK (July).
Service
2013-2014
2012-2014
2013-2014
Co-organizer, 40th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (BLS 40).
Abstract reviewer, 39th, 40th, and 41st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics
Society.
Co-organizer, UC Berkeley Phonetics and Phonology Forum (weekly talk series).
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Professional Memberships
2012-present
2013-present
Linguistic Society of America
Acoustical Society of America
Languages
Beginner
Intermediate
Dead
Computer
Tamil
Hindi, Italian
Latin, Ancient Greek, Sanskrit
R, Python
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