Grant M. Berry, Ph.D.
Linguist. Cognitive Scientist. Stress Baker.
Research & Projects
Selected Research Projects
- Experiential and neurocognitive mechanisms of language adaptation
- Language Variation and Change in Puerto Rican Philadelphia
- Phonetic Alignment in English as a lingua franca
- EEG Corpus Phrase Search and Connectivity Metrics
Current Research
My current manuscripts address vowel overlap measurement, category imbalance in conversational speech, acoustic change detection and speech adaptation, theta activity during auditory categorization, and AI detection in academic writing. See the CV for titles and publication status.
Research Software
- phontrast: An R package for information-theoretic measures of phonological category overlap.
- eeg-pipeline: A modular Python pipeline for electroencephalography (EEG), including event-related potentials and time-frequency analyses.
- APA format checker: Software for checking APA formatting.
- lingviz.com: Interactive tools for exploring speech categories, overlap, and acoustic cues.
Selected Industry Projects
(selected public work)
Alexa
- Timer manipulations (pause, restart, add/subtract time, edit)
- Syncing smart lighting to timers/notifications (e.g., Echo Glow)
- Cook-along meal kits
- Arabic language launch
- MASSIVE Language Dataset