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.
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.