3rd year PhD student Colleen Patton completed a 5 week internship at the Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle (The Columba Center Islay). Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle is a language and culture center located in Bowmore, Islay. Outside of general office and reception duties, Colleen was primarily tasked with the reorganization and management of materials collected under an oral history project, Seanchas Ìle, which took place 10 years ago. With input from her coworkers at ICCI, Colleen created videos that... Read more

Noah Nelson represented the department at the International Workshop on Language Production (IWLP) in La Jolla, CA this past July, presenting research done with Dr. Andy Wedel on the nature of lexical competition and how it affects the realization of voice onset time in the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech. Noah will be presenting further research on how competition affects vowel duration at the Annual Meeting on Phonology (AMP) at USC in October.

Prof Heidi Harley is an invited speaker at the Stanford workshop, "On the status of head movement in lingusitic theory," being held at Stanford Sept 16-17, 2016. Her presentation is entitled, "What Hiaki stem forms are really telling us," and is scheduled for Saturday Sept. 17. The full program and description of the workshop can be found here:

John Matthew has joined the Douglass Phonetics Lab as a visiting scholar. He is a faculty member in the Department of English Studies at Chuo University in Japan.

William Cotter, third year PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics, and his colleague Uri Horesh (University of Essex), have published a survey article on the state of the field in Arabic sociolinguistics. The article, entitled “Current Research on Linguistic Variation in the Arabic Speaking World” surveys the development of research on language variation and change within Arabic speaking communities spanning the decade and a half from the publication of Niloofar Haeri’s influential... Read more

William Cotter, third year PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics, recently published a review of Making Waves: the Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics by Sali Tagliamonte. The book was published in 2015 by Wiley-Blackwell, and William’s review appears on LinguistList.

Joint PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics William M. Cotter recently published an article in the Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics (26:060001). The article, titled “A sociophonetic account of morphophonemic variation in Palestinian Arabic” investigates dialect contact and change within Gaza City Arabic. Cotter’s article investigates vocalic change in the Arabic feminine gender marker, a word final vowel that is pronounced differently across Arabic varieties. The findings of this... Read more

William Cotter, third year PhD student in Anthropology and Linguistics, published an article in a recent volume in the Studies in Arabic Linguistics [SAL] series (John Benjamins), Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XXVIII. Papers from the Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Gainesville, Florida, 2014. His article, entitled “(q) as a sociolinguistic variable in the Arabic of Gaza City”, focuses on the variable pronunciation of the voiceless uvular stop /q/ in the Arabic varieties of the... Read more