Chloe Ostiguy is a doctoral researcher in English linguistics at Ghent University. Her research interests include phonology, speech perception, language variation, and dialectology. Before pursuing a doctorate, she completed a bachelor’s in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2023) with an honor’s thesis constructing a corpus of Massachusetts dialects. During this time, she worked as a research assistant under Prof. Lisa Green (July 2021-October 2023), where she completed a statistical (syntactic) analysis of children’s acquisition of African American English and presented the results. She also worked on a project organized by Prof. Joe Pater (January-December 2023), which looked at the history of Western Massachusetts phonology. Her current doctoral project, funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and supervised by Prof. Ellen Simon and Dr. Bastien De Clercq, focuses on the intelligibility of regional accents for learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
