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Alicia
Beckford Wassink
Associate Professor, Department
of Linguistics, University of Washington
Department Main 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 principal 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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Sociolinguistic
Applications of Social Network Theory (LING534) |
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Problems in
Linguistics: Just Noticeable Differences (LING580CD) |
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LING580, Computational Methods in
Linguistic Analysis (co-taught with Emily Bender) |
R in
Linguistics (complement to Compuational Methods in Linguistic
Analysis) |
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
5/13/2013
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