Kaitlyn Owens
PhD candidate in Linguistics in the Dept. of French and Italian at Indiana University
Hello! I am currently a PhD candidate in the French Linguistics program at Indiana University-Bloomington. Generally speaking, I study how social factors (e.g., language attitudes and speaker profiles) interact with phonetic and phonological ones to influence language variation and change.
I will defend my dissertation in Spring 2027.
Please explore this site to see what I have been up to, who I’m collaborating with, and what I have found through my research in sociolinguistics, phonetics, and phonology. Most presentations and publications can be found at my Academia.edu profile: https://indiana.academia.edu/KaitlynOwens
When I’m not conducting research or teaching, I enjoy playing with my two cats, working on jigsaw puzzles, partaking in the fiber arts, and going to trivia.
Left: Laila on her 6th birthday. She was not pleased about having her picture taken.
Right: Boise disrupting the completion of a jigsaw puzzle while on vacation at my parents’ house.
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