Accent shift in Atlas Obscura

I spoke with Dan Nosowitz from Atlas Obscura about my research on accent shift among mobile speakers - the result is this very accessible introduction to some of my work (and that of Arvilla Payne and James Flege):

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/are-semester-abroad-accents-real-or-fake

Homecoming Lecture at Dartmouth College, 10/27

I'm very excited to give the Annual Linguistics Homecoming Lecture at my alma mater, Dartmouth College, later this week!

Talk details and abstract can be found here.

Dartmouth Hall

Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research

Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research (Cambridge University Press) is now published and available for purchase! This book (edited by Anna Babel of The Ohio State University) has something for everyone, whether you're an experimentalist, a field interviewer, an ethnographer, a theorist, or some combination thereof. My chapter - Awareness and acquisition of new dialect features - addresses the extent to which awareness of a dialect feature is a prerequisite for change in that feature (spoiler: it's not).

Small grant for a new research project

Excited to begin a new research project (Developing a novel task for the collection of spontaneous speech data) with the help of a small Competitive Grant-in-Aid from Georgetown! The grant will allow me to hire and mentor an undergraduate research assistant as I develop the project.