Amelia E. Kimball [email protected] Education Publications Amelia E. Kimball and Jennifer Cole, Avoidance of Stress Clash in Perception of American English. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, Ireland, 2014 Amelia E. Kimball, The (Statistical) Power of Mechanical Turk. Proceedings of the Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium 2014 (to appear) Presentations Boston University M.A. in Applied Linguistics 2012 • Master’s Thesis: “Effects of Nuclear Stress and Meter on a Word Recognition Memory Task” Harvard University A.B. in Linguistics magna cum laude 2008 • Thesis: “Transfer of Tonicity and Segmental Phonology in L2 Italian and English” University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Ph.D. in Linguistics expected in 2016 Talk: Amelia Kimball and Jennifer Cole “Testing the Hypothesis of Episodic Memory for Prosody” Mid-‐continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Madison, WI 9/13/2014 Talk: Amelia Kimball “For Acoustic Measurements, to Hand Segment or to Use an Aligner? When in Doubt, Do Both.” Illinois Language and Linguistics Society, Urbana, IL, 4/5/2014 Talk: Amelia Kimball “The (Statistical) Power of Mechanical Turk” Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, West Lafayette, IN 3/20/2014 Talk: Amelia Kimball and Duane Watson “The Case of the Thirteen Camels: Eyetracking data show that contrary to phonological theory listeners prefer stress clash patterns to stress-‐shifted alternatives” Purdue Linguistics Association Symposium, West Lafayette, IN 3/20/2014 Poster: Amelia Kimball and Jennifer Cole “Avoidance of Stress Clash in Perception of American English” Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, Ireland, 5/21/2014 1 Edited Publications Poster:Abdul Malik Abbasi and Amelia E. Kimball “Word stress in Sindhi and English: Implications for Learners of English.” University of Illinois Program for Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education Graduate Research Symposium. 5/08/2014 Poster: Amelia E. Kimball “Optimizing Reliability of Crowdsourced Data” Midwest Speech and Language Days 2014, Urbana, IL, 5/2/2014 Poster: Amelia Kimball and Jennifer Cole “Is Metrical Regularity Perceived in Conversational Speech?” Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN 1/4/2014 Poster: Amelia Kimball and Jennifer Cole ”Is Conversational Speech Perceived as Regular?” Mid-‐continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Ann Arbor,3/22/2013 Editor, Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers Vol. 44. Edited by Daniel Ross and Amelia Kimball. Urbana: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2013 Editor, The Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Edited by Alia Biller, Esther Chung and Amelia Kimball. Somerville: Cascadilla Press 2012. Fellowships Awards and Grants Illinois Distinguished Fellowship University of Illinois Graduate College Conference travel grant, $350 April 2014 University of Illinois Linguistics Department Conference travel grant, $200 April 2014 Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Top rated abstract award, $200 April 2014 Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Award. $2000 Summer 2013 University of Illinois Linguistics Department Conference travel grant, $150 April 2013 2012-‐2015 3 years of funding, $25,000/year University-‐wide fellowship for “students of the highest quality who represent extraordinary recruitment opportunities” 2 Academic Service Research Experience Studies in the Linguistic Sciences: Illinois Working Papers Editor Academic Year 2013-‐2014 Boston University Conference on Language Development 36 Co-‐organizer Fall 2010-‐Spring 2012 TERC, Cambridge, MA. Research Consultant Summer 2011, 2012 TERC is a not-‐for-‐profit education research and development organization dedicated to improving mathematics, science, and technology teaching. Teaching Experience Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics Research Assistant Spring 2010 Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics Teaching Fellow, Ling 100 Foundations of Language Academic year 2011-‐12 • • Taught three sections (18 students each) per week, covering introductory material in Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Language Acquisition Designed handouts and review materials for sections and review sessions Boston University College of Arts and Sciences Writing Center Fall 2010-‐ Spring 2012 Graduate writing tutor, ESL Specialist American Education and Travel Services ESL Teacher Summer 2010 Northfield Mount Hermon School Summer Session ESL Teaching intern Summer 2009 Other Experience University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Center for Teaching Excellence English Proficiency Interview Rater Fall 2012-‐present 3 Technical skills Boston University Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Consultant School Year 2010-‐11 Derek L. Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University Consultant Spring 2006 –2007, 2009, 2011 experienced with: Excel, R, Praat familiar with: Audacity, Python, SPSS, Matlab for eyetracking Language skills Italian-‐ high Intermediate French-‐ Intermediate Catalan-‐ Intermediate Reading knowledge of Portuguese, Spanish 4