I am a PhD student in English specializing in language, rhetoric and linguistics with a research focus at the intersection of sociolinguistics, AI, dialect variation, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis. I study low resourced dialects. My work explores how language varieties, particularly low-resourced dialects are represented in AI and the broader implications for linguistic diversity in technology. As a secondary research interest, I study composition, rhetoric and discourse analysis in extraction and environmental-related topics. I am advised by Prof Colette Moore at UW English and Prof Alicia Wassink at UW Linguistics. 

 

Research Projects

Here are some of the projects I am working on: 

• Linguistic stabilization and early codification in Ghanaian English (GhE)

• Acoustics of Understudied Dialects in English (Dialect bias in ASR) at the Sociolinx

• Discursive Ecology of mining discourse in Ghana

 

Skills 

• Qualitative Research

• Python 

• Acoustics Analysis (Praat)

• Curriculum and lesson design 

• Teaching

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