Gina-Anne
Levow
Department of Linguistics
University of Washington
P.O. Box 352425
Guggenheim 418B
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
+1-206-616-5728 [Voice]
+1-206-685-7978 [Fax]
levow at uw dot edu
Formal Personal Statement
I'm a Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Washington.
My research concentrates on spoken language processing, with emphasis on the use of prosody in spoken language understanding and on computational techniques for processing speech in low-resource and endangered languages.
I am currently collaborating with Prof. Richard Wright and Siyu Liang (at UW) and Nicolas Ballier and Guillaume Wisniewski (at Universite Paris Cite) to investigate and improve the representation of low-resource languages in large multilingual speech foundation models. This work also extends projects on shared tasks and speech tools to support endangered language documentation and revitalization efforts as well as low-resource machine translation and automatic speech recognition. My prior work has ranged over automatic recognition of spoken stance. dysarthric speech recognition in Cantonese, recognition of tone and intonation across languages, and multi-lingual social dynamics.
I received my Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.
My doctoral thesis explored recognizing spoken corrections in human-computer dialogue, relying on acoustic-prosodic features. My Master's thesis examined
discourse-neutral prosodic phrasing in Mandarin Chinese, analyzing the relationship between syntactic and prosodic structure.
I was a member of a competitive USGF gymnastics team for eight years, and began studying T'ai Chi during my year as a Rotary Fellow in Taiwan. I am fluent in
Mandarin Chinese and French.
Here is the family photo, our transplanted British cats, and more great cats.
Last Updated: April 2026