Media
Linguistics is awesome and more people need to know about it! Accordingly, I am happy to speak to media on topics such as American accents & dialects, mobility & dialect change, accent change over the lifespan, how people learn new accents, and why they change their accent in different contexts.
Public Presentations
Catching Accents: How We Learn and Use New Dialect Features. Talk given at the Language Science Fair at Planet Word Museum in Washington DC, May 10, 2025.
Select Print Interviews
Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed - And Yours Might Too (The Atlantic, December 2025)
The Study-Abroad Accent Might Be the Real Deal (The Atlantic, May 2024)
Why Do Nevadans Pronounce Their State’s Name So Strangely? (Atlas Obscura, January 2024).
The Meaning and History of Memes (The New York Times, January 2022)
Linguists Explain Meghan Markle’s Apparent New British Accent (The Cut, July 2018)
Are ‘Semester Abroad Accents’ Real or Fake? (Atlas Obscura, November 2016)
For linguists, the new sci-fi film Arrival can’t come soon enough (Science Magazine, November 2016)
Bernie and the Donald Tawk the Tawk (Houston Chronicle, February 2016)
Don’t Get Mad When Transplants Copy How You Talk (The Atlantic’s CityLab blog/Bloomberg, February 2016)
Voicing the Real Self (ASHA Leader, February 2016)