One of my main commitments is to implement new and effective methods of teaching, such as the use of audiovisuals and the implementation of new technologies that empower and help students invest in a deeper way with their learning. Practices and educational experiences in past times have led us to enrich the philosophical concept of education. Search, understanding, and reflection have always been and continue to be the main drivers for…
My research interests lie in phonetics and phonology. More specifically, my research focuses on laboratory phonology, phonological representations, and sociophonetic variability. Disentangling surface forms (the sounds we produce) from abstract forms (how they are represented in the brain) has always been a primary goal for phonological theories, but finding appropriate methods to test these questions is challenging. I use a…
My name is Ally Bigham and I am from Charlotte, North Carolina. I graduated from Wofford College located in Spartanburg, SC where I received my B.A. in Spanish with a minor in Business. During my time at Wofford I was a member of the inaugural softball team and Co-President of Sigma Delta Pi. I conducted undergraduate research and investigated Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in the Spanish Civil War through Newspapers where we focused mainly on…