Research

The Great Vowel Shift

       

        Northern dialect evidence for the chronology of the Great Vowel Shift.

        Paper presented at NWAV 41, Indiana University Bloomington, 2012. [Abstract] [Slides]

        Northern England and the Great Vowel Shift: A dialect geographical approach.

        Paper presented at NEW5, Nottingham Trent University, April 2012. [Abstract]

The impact of higher education on Philadelphia vowels. With Meredith Tamminga.

        Paper in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 18.2 (2012).
        Paper presented at NWAV 40: Georgetown University, October 2011. [Slides]

Linguistic variation and change in Atlanta, Georgia.

        Paper in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 16.2 (2010).
        Poster presented at NWAV 38: University of Ottawa, October 2009.  [Handout]
        Undergraduate thesis at Emory University received highest honors, May 2009.

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