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"Orange
Grove" by Jamaican artist Kapo
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Department of
Linguistics, University of Washington
Office:
A210H Padelford Hall
Phone:
+(206) 616-9589
I am an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of
Washington, and am director of the
Sociolinguistics Laboratory. I
will be teaching one course in Spring 2008: LING580 ÒProblems in Linguistics:
Accommodation Theory—Enforcement of linguistic norms in interpersonal and
network contexts.Ó On this website, you will find up-to-date course information
for my classes, and information about my research.
The linked items below will
take you to past syllabi and course descriptions for the courses that I teach.
Please note that there has recently been a restructuring of the
sociolinguistics course series.
You can find out the new numbers for all of the socio series here.
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I received my PhD in 1999 from the University of Michigan Department of Linguistics. If you aren't sure what
linguistics is, you might find it helpful to link to the homepage of the Linguistic
Society of America. My research
interests lie in phonetics (the study of the acoustic properties, perception,
and physiological aspects of human speech) and sociolinguistics (the study of
language in its various social contexts). The language I study is Jamaican
Creole. When I'm in Jamaica conducting fieldwork, my home base is the University of the West Indies.
PowerPoint presentation for work recently
completed under the project, "Intraspeaker variability
in vowel production, part II: An investigation of motherese, hyperspeech, and
Lombard speech in Jamaican speakers", funded by the Center for
Mind, Brain and Learning (now ILabs)
UW Sociolinguistics
Laboratory links:
Website for The
Sociolinguistics Brown Bag, an
interdisciplinary group of scholars from the University of Washington and other
local colleges and universities dedicated to the discussion of sociolinguistic
theory, issues of language variation, and language as a matter of public
concern.
Click here to access Sociolinguistics Laboratory
resources (some links are viewable by restricted access only):
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Spring 2004 Corpus
Holdings in Sociolinguistics Brown
Bag workshop
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List of Sociolinguistics laboratory corpus holdings (maintained by the UW Computational Linguistics Laboratory)
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Elicitation
materials clearinghouse.
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Sociolinguistics laboratory library database (.fp7)
(ddr)
Other Sociolinguistics
links:
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Linguistic
Data Consortium, located at the
University of Pennsylvania
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Prof. WassinkÕs English in the Pacific Northwest Project
Some phonetics links:
á Website for the University of Washington Department of Linguistics Phonetics Laboratory
á A text-to-speech
synthesizer, created by Lucent
Technologies.
á Table of contents, abstracts, and other information about
articles recently published in the Journal of
Phonetics, for which I am a former
editorial assistant.
á Homepage of the Acoustical Society of
America.
á Homepage of Haskins
Laboratories (New Haven, CT).
Need to look up a word? Try the online hypertext Webster's dictionary
wassink@u.washington.edu
last updated 5/16/08