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Alicia Beckford Wassink Curriculum Vitae (rev 9/2009) |
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ACADEMIC ADDRESS: Department of Linguistics,
University of Washington, A-210 Padelford Hall, Box 354340, Seattle,
Washington 98195-4340 U.S.A. (206) 616-9589 wassink@u.washington.edu |
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EDUCATION |
University of Michigan:
Linguistics (Ph.D., 1999) Thesis title: "A Sociophonetic
Analysis of Jamaican Vowels."
Co-chairs: Patrice Speeter Beddor, A. Lesley Milroy. Dissertation nominated for Horace H.
Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award. Houghton
College, NY: Communication, Creative Writing (B.A., 1990) (English
literature component); Spanish minor.
GPA 3.81 (4.0 scale) summa cum laude Areas of specialization: Sociolinguistics (social
network theory, phonological variation, language ideology, language
attitudes), Acoustic phonetics (spectral and temporal characteristics of
vowels), Creole linguistics (Jamaican Creole phonetics and phonology) |
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EMPLOYMENT |
2006-present. Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed
Professor of Language and Cultural Compence. 2006-present, Associate Professor, University of
Washington 2005-present, Director, Sociolinguistics
Laboratory, University of Washington. Jan 1999-2006. Assistant Professor, University of Washington,
Department of Linguistics 2002. Visiting Research Fellow, University of the
West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica 2002. Affiliate Professor, Center for Mind, Brain
and Learning, University of Washington 1994-7. Editorial Assistant, Journal of Phonetics 1994.
Research Assistant, NSF Grant to Dr. P. S. Beddor: cross-linguistic phonetic study of
coarticulation in speakers of English and Shona, U of Michigan 1994. Research Assistant, English Language
Institute, U of Michigan: study of the influence of genre-based instruction
on the reading strategies of 11 ESL students (Sunny Hyon, principal
investigator) 1990-92. Instructor, Delaware Valley Literacy
Council, Upper Darby, PA: English as a Second Language (earned ESL
certificate) |
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COMMITTEES, DUTIES and SERVICE |
Committees 2008-9. Member, internal review committee. English
Department Site review committee. 2003.
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Computational Linguistics,
Department of Linguistics, University of Washington 2002-present. Department Liaison, Language
Learning Center Technology Support Steering committee, University of
Washington. Provide direction
for the LLC Technology Support Specialist. 2000.
Member, Library Focus Group: Future Directions, College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Washington.
Participant in task force on usefulness of library subscription to
electronic journals in the Humanities. 1999, 2000.
Member, Admissions Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of
Washington Service 2000-present. Organizer, Sociolinguistics Brown
Bag. Interdisciplinary support
and discussion group for faculty and students interested in sociolinguistics.
http://faculty.washington.edu/~wassink 1999-present. Presenter, World Languages Day. Presentations offered include: ÒThe History and Structure of African-American English,Ó
ÒAmerican DialectsÓ 2000, 2001.
Organizer, Abstract writing workshop, Phonetics/Phonlogy Lab group. 1999, 2000.
Organizer, Grants and Funding Information Workshop, University of
Washington, Department of Linguistics.
Organized workshop on finding funding for Linguistics Graduate
students, including development of a FileMaker Pro database that sits on a
public department computer. |
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RESEARCH
GRANTS/CONTRACTS Awarded |
2007. ÒDialect
Evolution and Ongoing Variable Linguistic Input: English in the Pacific
Northwest 200 years after Lewis and ClarkÓ, National Science Foundation.
Award Amount: $97,000 USD. Role: principal investigator. 2007. ÒHow strict is the Òmother tongueÓ? Using Dialects to Probe Early Speech Perception and Word RecognitionÓ.
Australian Research Council/National Institute of the Humanities
Research Grant (Drs. Catherine Best and Christine
Kitamura, co-principal investigators). Award Amount: $1.4million USD. Role:
consultant. 2005.
Curriculum Development Award, African Studies Minor, University of
Washington. $2,000. LING455: Areal
Linguistics—Pidgin and Creole languages to become part of the minor
(Principal Investigator) 2003. Royalty Research Fund, University of
Washington. $40,000. ÒSpectral
Overlap Assessment Metric: vowel analysis and 3-D graphical representationÓ
(Principal Investigator). Software development. See http://vois3d.com 2002.
Center for Mind, Brain and Learning, University of Washington (now
i-Labs). $100,000. ÒIntraspeaker variability in Motherese, Hyperspeech and
the Lombard ReflexÓ (Co-Principal Investigator with Richard Wright,
Department of Linguistics) 2002.
Junior Faculty Development Grant, University of Washington.
$30,000. Investigation of
intra-speaker variability in Jamaican Creole. For field research in Jamaica (Principal Investigator) 2000.
Curriculum Development Grant, University of Washington. $27,722 (with
Julia Herschensohn, Karen Zagona, and Richard Wright) Developed multimedia
curriculum, interactive problem sets, and website materials for introductory
linguistics courses LING100, LING200 2000. Faculty Fellows Undergraduate Research
Assistantship Award, University of Washington. $1,000.
Intrinsic f0 in Jamaican Creole (Principal Investigator) Conducted
research into the role of f0 differences in Jamaican vocalic contrast 1999. Allen Endowment Award, University of
Washington. $10,000. Grant to
supplement the holdings of the Sociolinguistics laboratory with electronic
corpora. |
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PUBLICATIONS
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Articles in
Peer Reviewed Journals Franklin, A., Stoel-Gammon, C & Wassink, A. B.
(2008) ÒAcoustic quantification of /i/-/I/ overlap in children 21
to 33 monthsÓ, International Journal of
Speech-Language Pathology 10(5), pp1-14 MacLeod, A., Stoel-Gammon, C., and Wassink, A. B.
(2007) ÒComparing bilingual and monolingual production of High Vowels in
Canadian English and Canadian French.Ó
Journal of Phonetics Wassink, A. B., Wright, R. A. and Franklin, A.
(2006) ÒIntraspeaker variability in vowel production: an investigation of
motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard speech in Jamaican speakers,Ó Journal of Phonetics, Wassink, A. B. (2006) ÒA geometric representation
of spectral and temporal vowel features: Quantification of vowel overlap in
three varieties,Ó submitted to Journal
of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(4), pp 2334-2350 Wassink, A. B. and Dyer, J. (2004) ÒLanguage Ideology and the
Transmission of Phonological Change,Ó
Journal of English Linguistics
32(1), pp1-16 Wassink, A. B. and Curzan, A. (2004) ÒAddressing
Ideologies Around African American English,Ó Journal of English Linguistics, 32(3), pp 171-185 Wassink, A. B. (2001) ÒTheme and Variation in
Jamaican Vowels,Ó Language Variation
and Change, 13(2), pp 135-159 Dyer, J. and Wassink, A. B. (2001) ÒTaakinÕ Braad and Talking Broad: the
changing indexicality of phonological variants,Ó Texas Linguistic Forum 44(2).
Austin: UT Austin, pp288-301 (equally co-authored) Beckford Wassink, A. (1999) ÒHistoric Low Prestige
and Seeds of Change: attitudes
toward Jamaican Creole,Ó Language in
Society, 28(1), pp57-92 Edited Special Issues (for Peer Reviewed Journals)Wassink, A. B. and Curzan, A. (2004, eds.)
ÒAfrican American English: Research Directions and Current Educational
Questions (1998-present),Ó Journal of
English Linguistics, 129 pp (equally co-edited) Book
Chapters in Refereed Collections Wassink, A. B. (in press) ÒGrowing up with two
ÔBlack LanguagesÕ: kinship and
attitudes toward Jamaican Creole and African-American EnglishÓ. In Lanehart, S. (ed., ) African American WomenÕs Language.
Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press. Wassink, A. B. (2005) ÒMy Teacher Says...:
Linguistic Competence and the Anglophone Creole Speaking Student.Ó In Denham, K. and Lobeck, A. (eds.) Language
in the Schools: Integrating linguistic knowledge into K-12 teaching. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. pp55-70 Reprinted
Work in Refereed Collections Beckford Wassink, A. (2006) ÒHistoric Low Prestige
and Seeds of Change: Attitudes
toward Jamaican Creole,Ó Language in
Society, 28(1) (1999), Reprinted in Academic
Writing: An Introduction, Calgary, AB: Broadview Press. To appear, Spring 2006 Book Reviews Wassink, A. B. (2003) review of Meade, R. R. Acquisition of Jamaican Phonology, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 19(1),
pp177-187 Media
Coverage of Research 2005.
KUOW radio, ÒWeekdayÓ program—feature on Pacific Northwest
English project, host Marcie Silman, May 26 2005.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, ÒGot a Northwest dialect? ItÕs creaky,Ó
Tom Paulson, Friday, May 20—feature on Pacific Northwest dialect
project and Acoustical Society poster presented in Vancouver BC 2003.
Charles Osgood Show, Sunday January 5—Interviewed at the
Linguistic Society of America regarding research in Pidgin and creole
linguistics, Dialectology 2001.
KBCS radio—feature on the Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning
project, Intraspeaker variability in vowel production |
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MANUSCRIPTS
IN PRESS |
Book
Chapters in Invited Volumes Thomas, E.R. and Wassink, A.B. (forthcoming)
ÒVariation and Identity in African American EnglishÓ. In Watt, D. and Llamas,
C. (eds.) Language and Identities,
ch. 15. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Press. Jaeger-Dror, M., diPaolo, M., and Wassink, A.B.
(forthcoming) ÒVowel AnalysisÓ. In
Jaeger-Dror, M., diPaolo, M. (eds.) Best
Practices in Sociophonetics. Oxford: Routledge. |
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WORK IN
PROGRESS |
Wassink, A. B. and Galvin, L. (unpublished ms)
ÒFinding a Place in Seattle: dialect contact and change in Irish-English in
the American Pacific Northwest,Ó 45 ms pp |
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REFEREED
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS |
2008. Scanlon, M. and Wassink, A. B. ÒDefining
Communities from Outside: Social Networks and Dialect Contact in Seattle.Ó
Talking across borders: interdisciplinary approaches to historical questions.
University of Washington, Department of History. April. 2008.
ÒGrowing up with two ÔBlack LanguagesÕ: kinship and attitudes toward Jamaican Creole and
African-American EnglishÓ, presented at African-American WomenÕs Language
conference, University of Texas-San Antonio, March 6-9, 2008 (Sonja Lanehart,
organizer) 2007.
Scanlon, M. and Wassink, A. B. ÒNetwork ties as conduits: contact and
diffusion in Seattle,Ó presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America. January. 2005. Wassink, A. B. ÒFinding a
network in Seattle: Variability in immigrant phonology and the ubiquity of
weak network ties,Ó presented at the 34th annual meeting of New
Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, New York, NY, October. 2005.
Ingle, J. K.,
Wright, R. A., & Wassink, A. B. ÒPacific Northwest vowels: A Seattle neighborhood dialect
study,Ó poster presented at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, Vancouver BC, May. 2004. Franklin, A 2004.
Carmichael, L., Wright, R.
W. and Wassink, A. B. ÒDesigning a Corpus of Interspeaker Variability,Ó
poster presented at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America,
San Diego, CA, October. 2004.
Wassink, A. B. and
Galvin, L. ÒFinding a Place in Seattle: dialect
contact and change in Irish-English in America,Ó presented at the 33rd
annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, Ann Arbor, MI,
September. 2003.
Wassink, A. B.,
Wright, R. A., Galvin, L., M., Franklin, A. D. ÒIntraspeaker variability in
vowel production: an investigation of motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard
speech in Jamaican speakers,Ó presented at the 8th International
Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August. 2003a. Wassink,
A. B. ÒAn Analytic Geometric Method for Quantifying Spectral and Temporal
Overlap in Vowel Systems,Ó presented at the 25th annual meeting of
the Linguistic Society of America, Atlanta, GA, January. 2003b. Wassink,
A. B. ÒVarieties of English in America: the Creole pieces of the puzzle,Ó
presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, Atlanta, GA,
January. 2001. with
J. Dyer, ÒTaakinÕ Broad and Talking Broad: changing indexicality of phonetic
variants in two contact situations,Ó presented at the 9th annual
meeting of the Symposium About Language and Society, Austin, TX, April. 2000.
"The vowel
inventories of Jamaican Speakers," presented at the annual meeting of
the Society for Pidgin and Creole Languages, Chicago, January. 1999.
Hagiwara, R.,
Wright, R., Wassink, A., Hargus, S., and Sterling, I. "An interactive
Atlas of English vowels: design considerations," poster presented at the
Acoustical Society of America, October, 1999. 1998.
ÒInteracting
spectral and temporal properties in Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole
vowel production,Ó poster presented at the annual meeting of the Acoustical
Society of America, Seattle, WA, June. 1998.
ÒCharacterizing
phonetic variation between Jamaican English and Creole vowels,Ó presented at the annual meeting of
the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY, January. 1996.
ÒGuarded Pride: The social complexity and
gender-grading of attitudes toward Jamaican Creole,Ó presented at the 25th
annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Las Vegas, NV, October. 1995.
ÒÔMy Teacher
Says...Õ: Attitudes of Jamaican
students toward Jamaican Creole,Ó presented at the 24th annual
meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Philadelphia, PA October. Also presented at the Center for
Afro-American and African Studies (CAAS), University of Michigan, October,
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INVITED
TALKS and COLLOQUIA |
2009. ÒAn exemplar-based account of the development
of sociolinguistic competence in childrenÓ U of Washington Colloquium series, 19
February. 2008. ÒThe development of sociolinguistic competence in
children.Ó U of Chicago Colloquium series, 4 December. 2007. ÒA child's-eye view: children's
perception and production of phonological variation.Ó Speech and Language
Sciences Seminar, Newcastle University Phonetics Research Group, 29
November. 2007. Ò(Post)Colonial assumptions in linguistic theory: system in
Jamaican Creole PhonologyÓ, as part of workshop ÒEnglish in a
Global Context: Postcolonial Intersections in Literary and Linguistic
Studies,Ó Isabelle Buchstaller
and Neelam Srivastava (organizers) 25 November. 2005. ÒModeling the tense~lax
distinction in three varieties:
perspectives on vowel volumes,Ó University of Michigan, Department of
Linguistics colloquium series, April. 2002. ÒThe long and short of vowel
distribution overlap,Ó University of Washington Linguistics Colloquium,
November. 2002. ÒLanguage ideology and phonological
change,Ó Simon Fraser University Linguistics Colloquium, October. 2002. ÒThe changing indexicality of
phonological variants in two language context situations,Ó presented at ÒA
Day in Sociolinguistics,Ó University of the West Indies, May. 2002. ÒUnderstanding variation in
Jamaican vowel systems,Ó the University of the West Indies, April. Guest lecture for seminar (Lecturer
A. Irvine) 2002. ÒVariability in language
production and perception: a
cross-linguistic investigation of motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard
Speech,Ó the University of the West Indies, April. 2001. ÒTaakin braad and talking
broad: the changing indexicality
of phonological variants in two language contact situations,Ó Linguistics
Colloquium, University of Washington, November. 2000. "Language, Culture and
Misinterpreted Linguistic Cues," University of Washington, Bothell,
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, April; October, 2000 (Diane Gillespie,
Instructor) 1999. "Culture and the Context of
Colonization: the role of language attitudes in language demise or
development," University of Washington, Language and Rhetoric/Language
Use and Acquisition Colloquium series, December. 1999. "Language, Culture and
Misinterpreted Linguistic Cues," University of Washington, Bothell,
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, October. 1999. "Pidgins and Creoles: their sounds and structures,"
University of Washington, Seattle, LING 200. July 1999. Talk given again in August, 1999. 1998. ÒA Tale of Two Tongues: Jamaican English and Jamaican
Creole,Ó Center for the Education of Women, Ann Arbor, Michigan, February. 1997. ÒAn Acoustic Phonetic Analysis of
Jamaican Vowels,Ó University of the West Indies--Mona, Kingston, Jamaica,
May. 1997. "Why Do Non-standard Languages
Persist?: Covert and overt
attitudes toward Jamaican Creole," University of Washington, Seattle,
February. 1996.
ÒIntercultural
Communication Competence,Ó William Tyndale College, Farmington Hills,
Michigan. COM 401-1:
Cross-cultural communication, September. 1994.
ÒPidgins,
Creoles, and Ôthe New EnglishesÕ,Ó, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan, July. 1993-1998. Introductory lecture on Pidgins and Creoles,
Linguistics 211, University of Michigan. |
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COURSES
TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: 1999-present
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Sociolinguistics I, LING
432/532 ANTH 464 Sociolinguistics
II, LING 433/533 (formerly 434) Sociolinguisitc
Applications of Social Network Theory, LING 534 Advanced
Sociolinguistics, LING 535 Pidgin and Creole
Languages, LING430 (formerly 455) Introduction to Linguistic
Phonetics, LING450 Advanced Linguistic
Phonetics, LING 554 Introduction to Linguistic
Thought, LING 200 |