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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
Email: wassink [at] u [dot] washington [dot] edu
I am an associate professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington, and am director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory. This quarter, I will be teaching a graduate-level introduction to social network analysis in sociolinguistics (LING534). 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 in 2008, the sociolinguistics series courses were
renumbered. You can find out the
new numbers for all of the socio series courses here.
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.
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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Other Sociolinguistics links:
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Linguistic
Data Consortium, located at the University of Pennsylvania
á The North Carolina State University's Sociolinguistics Archive and Analysis Project (SLAAP)
Some 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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Homepage of the Acoustical Society of
America.
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Homepage of Haskins
Laboratories (New Haven, CT).
Need to look up a word? Try Webster's
online dictionary
last updated 10/24/09
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