Research
Sarah’s independent research started with psycholinguistics, investigating the effect of typological proximity on the language switching speed of bilinguals. She is currently exploring projects in forensic linguistics that integrate psycholinguistics with sociolinguistics by engaging in classroom discourse and linguistic indicators of extremism. In the near future, she plans to investigate threatening language assessments and their application to terrorism.
Education & Certification
Sarah earned a Master of Science in Applied Linguistics at the University of Glasgow (UK). She also graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English (2019). Sarah’s academic background focused on linguistic modules, such as grammar, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, phonology, phonetics, discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics. Her background also introduced her to technical skills in navigating NLP (Natural Language Processing), Part-of-Speech tagging (POS), and employing data and statistical analysis.
Sarah also possesses a TEFL/TESOL certification and has taught ESL in a university setting.
Languages
- Limited working proficiency in Japanese
- Elementary proficiency in Spanish
- Beginner in Russian and Dutch
- Enthusiastic interest in Arabic
Technical Skills
R, statistical analysis, PRAAT, UAM Corpus Tool, AntConc, Wmatrix, CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System), USAS (UCREL Semantic Analysis System)
Workshops & Conferences
July 5th-6th, 2025 | The University of Glasgow
- Busary recipient and attendant of SFL Institute Weekend Workshop: Using CorpusTool with Mick O’Donnell and Transitivity, Mood and Modality with Tom Bartlett
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