What am I doing right now?
Preparing to teach
Research
π Working on a textbook about American English varieties with Betsy Evans.
π Working on a paper about Idaho English with Valerie Freeman and other collaborators.
π Working on a paper about Utah English with a student.
π€ Starting data collection on how Utahns say mountain and similar words.
π Starting data collection on Utahnsβ attitudes towards Utah English.
π¬π§ Recruiting students for a study abroad in the UK next summer.
π Developing some pretty awesome new tools for sociophonetic data analysis. Hereβs one and stay tuned for the other.
Advising
βͺοΈ An MA thesis on how religiosity correlates with language attitudes towards Spanish-accented English.
οΈπ€ An MA thesis on the acoustic correlates of βheroβ and βvillainβ in voice actors.
π£οΈ An MA project that produces materials for Swahili speakers to learn English.
οΈπ§βπ§βπ§βπ§ An MA thesis on address forms for in-laws and other non-core family members.
π€ A HumGrant on the social perception of affricate closure duration in Utah English.
π©πΌβπ€βπ©π» A HumGrant on the effect of pitch on the perceptions of female voices.
π An independent readings on doing sociophonetic analysis in R.
π£ An independent readings on voice quality and methods for analyzing it.
Personal
- π‘ Enjoying my new house!
- π§Ά Planning my next knitting project.
- πΊ Watching Silo and Ghosts.