Department of French and Italian

Ye-Ye is a Ph.D. student in French Linguistics minoring in Computational Linguistics. She grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, and completed her M.Phil. in Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics and her P.G.C.E. (language teacher training) at the University of Oxford, where she received several awards for her studies and contribution to collegiate life. There she served as Junior Dean at Pembroke College for two years and was awarded a Distinction for her M.Phil. thesis which analyzed the morphosyntactic formation of structures in French-based Creoles of the Caribbean and the Americas. Ye-Ye also read law for one year at the University of Strasbourg, during which she helped to establish a children’s music charity, El Sistema France Alsace. Her focus at Indiana University is to develop computational skills along with her pedagogy and research on language change and creole languages.