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Charles J. Pindziak II

About Charlie: Charlie graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in linguistics from the University of Florida. He has previously been involved in research of Korean phonotactics with Optimality Theory and has co-written two journal articles on this topic, one of which earned him the 2010 Reza Ordoubadian Award from the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL). Charlie has researched Spanish and Catalan lenition of voiced stop consonants and the incompatible phonetic and phonological interpretations of this process. He has also researched the phonetic realization of [β] across languages. Charlie currently works on machine-learning applications, focusing on general problems as well as those specific to natural language processing. His favorite learning models are artifical neural networks and support vector machines.

Thesis

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2012. On the Lack of Fricative Articulations of [β] in the World’s Languages. Thesis (PDF)

Journal articles

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2012. "Haitian Creole Phonology: Summary and Analysis." FLA Academic Paper Collective. Article (PDF)

• Pindziak, Charles J., and Sean Witty. 2011. "Framing Korean complex-coda resolution with Optimality Theory." Suvremena lingvistika 71: 87-103. Article (PDF)

• Witty, Sean M., and Charles J. Pindziak. 2010. "Stratification and Optimality: The Korean Head Consonant Rule." Chomskyan Studies 5.1: 63-77.

Conference presentations

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2011. "The lack of fricative articulations of [β] in the world's languages." Thursday Linguistics Seminar, University of Florida. Abstract (PDF)

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2011. "Sobre la classificació dels al·lòfons de les oclusives castellanes i catalanes" ("On the classification of the allophones of Spanish and Catalan stop consonants"). 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan Linguistics, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida. Program (PDF)

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2010. "Framing Korean complex-coda resolution with OT." Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL) LXXVII, University of Mississippi.

• Witty, Sean M., Jihyung Hong & Charles J. Pindziak. 2010. "Stratification and Optimality: The Korean Head Consonant Rule." Seoul International Conference on Linguistic Interfaces (SICOL-2010). Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. Program (ODS) / (XLS)

• Pindziak, Charles J. 2009. "Unifying Korean phonological processes with an OT framework." Thursday Linguistics Seminar, University of Florida.

Honors

• University Scholar (2011-2012). Profile

• Reza Ordoubadian Award recipient for best student paper at SECOL LXXVII (2010). Overview

• Anderson Scholar with High Distinction.

• Recipient of UF Department of Spanish and Portuguese scholarship for research in Catalonia.

Organizations

• Founding member and senior video producer for the Florida Linguistics Association. My Videos

• Kaggle (machine-learning competition) member. Profile

Certifications

• Successful completion of Dr. Yaser Abu-Mostafa's rigorous course Learning From Data. Certificate (PDF)

• Intermediate Level of Catalan (B2). Certified by l'Institut Ramon Llull

Contact:

cpindziakalumni.ufl.edu