New edited volume with Oxford University Press

Sociophonetics: Implications for Phonological and Phonetic Theory is now available from Oxford University Press! The volume includes chapters by me and my co-editor Lauren Hall-Lew, Meredith Tamminga, Kevin McGowan, Abby Walker, and Teresa Pratt; it’s currently available online at Oxford Academic, with print copies coming at the end of January.

Second dialect acquisition in The Atlantic

I'm quoted in this piece by Olga Kazan (who I really enjoyed speaking with; she asked good questions and followed up on email to clarify various points. Not all journalists are so concerned about nailing the details, so it's great to talk to one who does!).

NWAV 53 talk

Claire Henderson and I gave a talk at NWAV 53 in Michigan last month, about our ongoing work looking at “foreign a” words (what we call the PASTA set) by mobile Torontonians and New Yorkers.

thanks to Abby Killam for the photo!

Language Science Fair talk at Planet Word

On May 10th I gave a short public-facing talk at the first ever Language Science Fair at Planet Word in Washington DC - thanks to the Language Science Station for organizing an excellent event!