Dr Oliver Mayeux

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Biography

I completed my PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics here at the University of Cambridge in 2019 and now hold a Title A (Junior Research) Fellowship at Trinity College. I am Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and co-convene the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC).

Before coming to Cambridge, I studied for a BA in Korean & Linguistics with Yoruba at SOAS, University of London with a year at Korea University, Republic of Korea. During that time, I worked part-time as a Research Assistant in Korean Linguistics at SOAS and at the University of Oxford.

Research

For up-to-date information about my research and publications, please check my academic webpage.

Publications (from Symplectic)

Journal articles

2024 (Accepted for publication)

Mayeux, O., 2024 (Accepted for publication). The syntax of African American English borrowings in the Louisiana Creole Tense-Mood-Aspect system Linguistics Vanguard,

2024

Mayeux, O., 2024. Language revitalization on social media: Ten years in the Louisiana Creole Virtual Classroom Language Documentation and Description,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.25894/ldd.350

2023 (Accepted for publication)

Mayeux, O., 2023 (Accepted for publication). Racial segregation and language variation in Louisiana Creole: Social meaning in language loss Sociolinguistica,

2023

Nguyen, L., Bryant, C., Mayeux, O. and Yuan, Z., 2023. How effective is machine translation on low-resource code-switching? A case study comparing human and automatic metrics Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,

Nguyen, L., Mayeux, O. and Yuan, Z., 2023. Code-switching input for machine translation: a case study of Vietnamese–English data International Journal of Multilingualism,
Doi: 10.1080/14790718.2023.2224013

Book chapters