Fields of interest:
- Sociophonetics, Language and Ethnicity, American English, Language Variation and Change, Language and Gender, Language Change across Adolescence.
Through her research she hopes to create a better understanding of how children's accents change during the school years, and how cultural geographic factors interface with trajectories of language change.
She is currently working on a monograph of language variation across the lifespan.
Keywords:
- sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, language and ethnicity, language and gender, language variation.
Subject Areas:
- Ethnic Literature/Studies
- Linguistics/English Language
- Women's Studies/Feminism/Gender/Sexuality.