New dialect acquisition on the Citylab blog

Here's a nice piece on accommodation and acquiring new dialect features in the Atlantic's CityLab blog, with comments from Kirk Hazen (West Virginia University) and me:

http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/02/linguistics-new-city-transplants-regional-accent/470016/

Politicians & New York City English in The Houston Chronicle

I spoke with Kyrie O'Connor about accent and political identity for an article in The Houston Chronicle that came out a few days ago. The article seems to be behind a capricious paywall (some get through to it, others don't), but you can view a pdf here.

Voice and identity in the ASHA Leader

The February issue of the ASHA Leader (magazine of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) includes a couple of great, thoughtful pieces about voice and identity. Both were written in consultation with speech pathologists and linguists —  I’m briefly quoted in one of them.

Georgetown Research Grant for work on second dialect acquisition

I've just been awarded a Georgetown Summer Academic Grant, which will help me continue my work on how expats and other mobile speakers change their speech after living in a new place. Watch this space for more details!