Lab Director
Alicia Beckford Wassink
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-217
Email: wassink[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/wassink/
Research interests: Sociophonetics, spectral overlap and trajectory analysis in vowel systems, dialect contact and contact-induced change, Pacific Northwest English, Jamaican Creole phonetics and phonology.
Faculty Lab Members
Richard Wright
Associate Professor (Linguistics)
Office: Padelford A-210-F
Email: rawright[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonetics, speech perception and spoken word recognition, sources of variability in spoken language, Austronesian langauges of Taiwan, Endangered languages of the Northwest, speech technology.
Betsy Evans
Assistant Professor (Linguistics)
Email: evansbe[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Attitudes to language variation, Pacific Northwest English, sociophonetics, imitation of dialects.
Students
Maria Burgess
Linguistics
Email: mapnea[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Mexican dialects of Spanish, Linguistic syncretism, language policies.
Valerie Freeman
Linguistics
Email: valerief[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: https://catalyst.uw.edu/workspace/valerief/6374/
Research interests: Sociophonetics: Pacific Northwest English, dialect differences, sound change, phonetic correlates to discourse markers.
Advisor: Richard Wright
Stephanie Hiller
Linguistics
Email: sthill4[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Language policy and planning, language and power
Russell Hugo
Linguistics
Email: rlhugo[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://staff.washington.edu/rlhugo/
Research interests: Language policy, language attitudes, language revitalization.
Wendy C. Kempsell Jacinto
Linguistics
Email: kempsell[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Code-switching, Sociophonetics, Spanish, Turkish, German.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Julia Colleen Miller
Linguistics
Email: jcmiller[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Athabaskan phonetics, tone and tonogenesis, language contact, language/dialect variation, cartography, fieldwork.
Meghan Oxley
Linguistics
Email: what[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://students.washington.edu/what/
Research interests: Sociophonetics, language attitudes, folk linguistics, perceptual dialectology, Southern United States English.
John M. Riebold
Linguistics
Email: riebold[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Sociophonetics, Dialect Differences, Sound Change, Pacific Northwestern English.
Yasmine Romero
English
Email: yromer[AT uw DOT edu]
Research interests: Language attitudes and identity, gender studies, second language acquisition.
Michael Scanlon
Linguistics
Email: ms27[AT uw DOT edu]
Webpage: http://students.washington.edu/ms27/
Research interests: Research areas: dialect contact, social networks, sociophonetics, African American English.
Alumni
Jamie Andrus
MA year: 2009
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Lisa Galvin
MA year: 2005
Thesis: Dubliners in Seattle: A sociophonetic analysis of Irish-English in the U.S.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Lotus Jo-Fu Lin
Postdoctoral Fellow, ILABS, University of Washington
Research interests: Second language learning, bilingualism, interactions of memory and cognition in language acquisition, neuroimaging methods.
Advisor: Patricia Kuhl
Jay Munson
Program Manager, Text-to-Speech, Microsoft
PhD year: 2005
Thesis: The relative degree of difficulty of L2 Spanish /d, t/, trill and tap by L1 English speakers: Auditory and acoustic methods of defining pronunciation accuracy.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
Chih-Chi Wen
MA year: 2003
Thesis: Phonological change in Atayal.
Advisor: Alicia Beckford Wassink
