Georgia Zellou

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

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

• Cohn, Michelle, Bruno Ferenc Segedin & Georgia Zellou. 2022. Acoustic-phonetic properties of Siri- and human-directed speech. Journal of Phonetics 90, 101123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101123
• Zellou, Georgia. 2017. Individual differences in the production of nasal coarticulation and perceptual compensation. Journal of Phonetics 61, 13–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2016.12.002
• Zellou, Georgia & Delphine Dahan. 2019. Listeners maintain phonological uncertainty over time and across words: The case of vowel nasality in English. Journal of Phonetics 76, 100910. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.06.001
• Zellou, Georgia & Meredith Tamminga. 2014. Nasal coarticulation changes over time in Philadelphia English. Journal of Phonetics 47, 18–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2014.09.002

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.