Just under a year ago, my brand new colleague Betsy Sneller and I decided to launch a research project together. At that time, we called it “MI-COVID Diaries”. Betsy had signed her hiring paperwork with… Read More "Looking back on the MI Diaries project"
Review of Eckert book “Meaning and Linguistic Variation”
In 2018, Penelope Eckert published a new book, Meaning and Linguistic Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics. I was invited by the journal Language in Society to publish a review. I accepted, but then got… Read More "Review of Eckert book “Meaning and Linguistic Variation”"
MI-COVID Diaries project is recruiting!
I’m excited to announce the MSU Sociolinguistics Lab‘s new project, MI COVID Diaries! The project is led by our new Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Dr. Betsy Sneller. We’re collecting periodic audio diaries from Michigan State residents… Read More "MI-COVID Diaries project is recruiting!"
“What influences dialects?” video
Available now, here’s a quick video created by the College of Arts and Letters media team as part of its Behind the Will series*. Titled “What influences dialects?” you can hear me give a very… Read More "“What influences dialects?” video"
Forthcoming paper in Canadian Journal of Linguistics
Just accepted to Canadian Journal of Linguistics: a jointly-authored paper with Gillian Sankoff titled “The long tail of language change: A trend and panel study of Quebeçois futures.” We hope it will appear in 2020. Here’s… Read More "Forthcoming paper in Canadian Journal of Linguistics"