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Department
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Alicia Beckford Wassink
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington
Office: A210H Padelford Hall
Department Phone: +(206) 543-2046
Email: wassink [at] u [dot] washington
[dot] edu
I am Director of the
Sociolinguistics Laboratory, and an associate professor of Linguistics in the Department
of Linguistics at
the University of
Washington. On
this website, you will find up-to-date information about my research and
teaching.
Research
My research interests lie in sociolinguistics (the study of language in its various social contexts, the relationships between language and social network structure, language attitudes and the outcomes of language and dialect contact) and phonetics (the study of the acoustic properties of spoken language, perception, and physiological aspects of human speech). One of my principle languages of study is Jamaican Creole. When I'm in Jamaica conducting fieldwork, my home base is the University of the West Indies
Research papers and presentations
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Research projects
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The
UW Sociolinguistics Laboratory
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(pdf)
Effects of Style and Gender on Fronting and
Raising of /e/, /e:/ and /ae/ before /g/ in Seattle English
(NWAV38, Ottawa
October 22-25, 2009)
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English in the Pacific Northwest Project
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Corpus holdings for sociolinguistics research
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(pdf)
A Sociophonetic Analysis of Jamaican Vowels
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VOIS3D
software
(manual)
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Elicitation Materials Clearinghouse (some links
available by restricted access only)
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Teaching
The linked items below will take
you to present and past syllabi and course descriptions for the courses that I
teach.
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This
Quarter (SPR, 2012): LING580, Computational
Methods in Linguistic Analysis (co-taught with Emily Bender) |
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Sociolinguistic Applications
of Social Network Theory (LING534) |
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Problems
in Linguistics: Just Noticeable Differences (LING580CD) |
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Other
Linguistics links:
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The homepage of the Linguistic
Society of America.
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The
homepage of the University of Michigan Department of Linguistics
(my alma mater)
É a few Sociolinguistics
links:
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Linguistic
Data Consortium, located at the University of Pennsylvania
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The
North Carolina State University's Sociolinguistics Archive and Analysis Project (SLAAP)
Éa few Phonetics links:
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A text-to-speech
synthesizer, created by Lucent Technologies.
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Table
of contents, abstracts, and other information about articles recently published
in the Journal
of Phonetics, for which I am a former editorial assistant.
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The
homepage of the Acoustical Society of
America.
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The
homepage of Haskins
Laboratories (New Haven, CT).
Need to look up a word? Try Webster's
online dictionary
last updated 3/25/2012
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