Congratulations to lab member Jason McLarty for receiving NSF grant funding for his dissertation research examining ethnic differences in naive listener prominence perception. Jason’s NSF grant supports his work to better understand differences and similarities in the prosodic patterns of African American and European American English varieties and how African American and European American listeners perceive these patterns.
Congratulations to LVC Lab member Nate Severance who was just awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. This award will help him conduct his doctoral research on documentation and sociophonetic analysis of languages in Burkina Faso.
The LVC Lab is heading to Seattle for the 2nd Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL) hosted by the University of Washington (CWSL website here) next month. We’re excited to showcase some of the projects we’ve been doing and to see what other sociolinguists in the Pacific Northwest are up to.
February 2016Tyler Kendall and Valerie Fridland (UNR) have a chapter in the new The Future of Dialects open-access volume. The complete paper is here: Mapping the perception of linguistic form: Dialectometry with perceptual data.