Georgia Zellou

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Georgia Zellou is an American linguistics professor at the University of California-Davis. Her research focuses on topics in phonetics and laboratory phonology.

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Education and research

Zellou received her PhD in linguistics from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2012, with a dissertation entitled "Similarity and Enhancement: Nasality from Moroccan Arabic Pharyngeals and Nasals." She joined UC-Davis in 2014, and she is currently a co-director of the UC-Davis phonetics lab. [1] [2] She has conducted research on the phonetics of nasalization in numerous languages, and more recently has investigated the phonetics of human-AI interactions. [3]

Honors and awards

In May 2016, Georgia Zellou was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies and the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich, upon an invitation from PD Dr. Marianne Pouplier and Prof. Dr. Jonathan Harrington in the context of the CAS Research Focus project, "Speech and Language Processing: How Words Emerge and Dissolve." [4]

In 2019, she received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring [5] and she was named a UC-Davis Dean's Fellow in 2020. [6]

In 2020, she was inducted as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America. [7] She was a 2017-18 Hellman Foundation Fellow. [8]

During the 2021–2022 academic year, she conducted research as a Fulbright scholar in France. [9] [10]

Selected publications

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References

  1. ↑ "Dr. Georgia Zellou". UC Davis Phonetics Lab. 2023-01-18. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  2. ↑ "April 2018 Member Spotlight: Georgia Zellou | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  3. ↑ "Georgia Zellou". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  4. ↑ "Prof. Georgia Zellou, PhD - Center for Advanced Studies LMU (CAS) - LMU Munich". www.en.cas.uni-muenchen.de. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  5. ↑ "Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research - Previous Recipients". Undergraduate Research Center. 2021-01-05. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  6. ↑ "Georgia Zellou Dean's Faculty Fellows Public Talk — Linguistics" . Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  7. ↑ "LSA Fellows By Name | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  8. ↑ "April 2018 Member Spotlight: Georgia Zellou | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  9. ↑ "Georgia Zellou wins Fulbright award — Linguistics" . Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  10. ↑ "Paris Diderot University (Paris VII) | Fulbright Scholar Program". fulbrightscholars.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
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