email: r.daland@gmail.com
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| Dates | Title | Employer | Role / Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/2017 - present | Quality Engineer | Apple | Siri Natural Language Understanding |
| 7/2009 -- 12/2017 | Assistant Professor | UCLA | Phonology (Linguistics) |
| 8/2003 -- 6/2009 | Graduate Student | Northwestern University | |
| 6/2001 -- 8/2001 | Firmware Engineer | Powerware/Invensys | Contractor |
(Skill range: 1=Foundational Knowledge; 6=Mastery)
- Computer Languages: Python (5), R (3), sh (2), C/C++ (1)
- Natural Languages: English (6), French (1), Russian (1), Korean (1)
- Data Science: Parametric statistics (3), Non-parametric statistics (3), Data Visualization (5), Machine Learning (2), Human Subjects Research (3), Research Design and Methodology (5), Graph Theory (3), Numpy/Pandas/Scipy/Jupyter (3)
- Natural Language Processing: Corpus Linguistics (5), Linguistic Theory (6), Language Modeling (4)
- Software Enginnering: CI/CD (3), SDET (2), Testing at scale (2)
- Soft Skills: Technical/Written Communication (5), Project Management (4), Public Speaking and Presenting (5)
- Mayer, C. & Daland, R. (accepted). A method for projecting features from observed phonological classes. Linguistic Inquiry.
- Daland, R., Oh, M., & Davidson, L. (2019). On the relation between speech perception and loanword adaptation. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 37(3), 825-868.
- Daland, R. (2015). Long words in maximum entropy phonotactic grammars. Phonology 32(3), 353-383.
- Norrmann, I. & Daland, R. (2015). Phonetic evidence for the resyllabification account of vowel prothesis in Spanish speakers acquiring English s-consonant clusters. Open Linguistics 1(1).
- Daland, R., Oh, M., & Kim, S. (2015). When in doubt, read the instructions: Orthographic effect in loanword adaptation. Lingua 159, 70-92.
- Daland, R. (2014). What is computational phonology? LOQUENS 1(1), e400.
- Cristia, A., Daland, R., Mielke, J., & Peperkamp, S. (2013). Similarity in the generalization of implicitly learned sound patterns. Laboratory Phonology 4(2), 259-286.
- Daland, R. & Zuraw, K. (2013). Does Korean defeat phonotactic word segmentation? ACL 51, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 4-9, 2013.
- Daland, R. (2013). Variation in child-directed speech: A case study of manner class frequencies. (OPEN ACCESS) Journal of Child Language 40(5), 1091-1122.
- Daland, R. Hayes, B., White, J., Garellek, M., Davis, A. & Norrmann, I. (2011). Explaining sonority projection effects. Phonology 28(2), 197-234.
- Daland, R. & Pierrehumbert, J.B. (2011). Learning diphone-based segmentation. Cognitive Science 35(1), 119-155.
- Goldrick, M. & Daland, R. (2009). Linking speech errors and phonological grammars: Insights from Harmonic Grammar networks. Phonology 26(1) (special issue on connecting theory and experimental methods), 147-185.
- Daland, R., Sims, A.D., & Pierrehumbert, J.B. (2007). Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps. ACL 45 Prague, June 23rd-June 30th.
- PhD, Linguistics. Northwestern University, 2009.
Areas of focus: speech perception, phonotactics, first languge acquisition. Minor in Cognitive Science.
Dissertation: "Word segmentation, word recognition, and word learning: a computational model of first language acquisition." - MS, Mathematics. North Carolina State University (NCSU), 2001.
Areas of focus: topology, iterated function systems (chaos theory) - BA, English. NCSU, 2001.
Areas of focus: Modernist and post-modernist literature. Minor in Religious Studies. - BS, Mathematics, NCSU, 2000.