Brandon Rhodes | Projects

Language in preschool instruction

A reanalysis of a PNAS paper on the effect of engaging language on preschoolers' persistence and interest in learning about science.

AGWE with Transformer encoders

Investigating the performance of Transformer encoders when learning acoustically grounded word embeddings (AGWE) from an acoustic signal and a character string for that signal.

Teaching Introduction to Linguistics

A page with materials I developed for the course Introduction to Linguistics (LING 20001) I taught at the University of Chicago.

Stress and syllabification with Dynamic Computational Networks

I investigated the possibilities and properties of Dynamic Computational Networks when jointly accounting for stress and syllabification (in English).

Phonemic distance in dialects of Arabic

I worked on a phonemically-based way to compute the distance between two dialects of Arabic. This was work for my second qualifying paper for the PhD program at the University of Chicago.

Yahoo finance web scraper

I developed a basic web scraper for Yahoo Finance statistics pages. Fun little project I did for a friend when I was bored.

Rhythm in speech

I wrote some code to get the amplitude envelope of utterances.

Global warming project

I analyzed the CET data to investigate the presence of global warming.

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology

A page with materials I developed for the course Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (LING 20101) at the University of Chicago.

Teaching assistant for Introduction to Linguistics

A page with materials I developed for the course Introduction to Linguistics (LING 20001), the first core course for the linguistics degree at the University of Chicago.

My shell

I developed a basic shell environment from scratch as a course assignment. The code is in C.

4D ultrasound imaging of /l/ and /r/ in American English

A study I helped conduct in Steven Lulich's lab of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Indiana University. The work was joint with Kelly Berkson and Ken de Jong in the linguistics department. We looked at production of /l/ and /r/ in American English with time aligned 3D ultrasound.

Creation of problem set on Sudanese Colloquial Arabic

For one of my core classes in the PhD curriculum at the University of Chicago, I created a problem set for undergraduates based on data from Sudanese Colloquial Arabic.

Syntax and semantics of aspectual verbs

This isn't a project of my own, but rather a project I worked on with Thomas Grano while I was an undergraduate student at Indiana University.

Lipidomics

My very first experience in research with Heather Bradshaw at Indiana University. I helped her process and analyze the data from a large lipidomics project, where she was looking at levels of different lipids in several areas of the brain using an acute model peripheral inflammation.