Publications and Presentations
Click to see selected publications, refereed presentations, and dissertations of UW Sociolinguistics Lab members.
Latest Lab Member Publications/Presentations
Squizzero, R., Horst, M., Wassink, A. B.(2023). Guidelines for race and ethnicity data in linguistic studies. Colloquium, University of Washington, Department of Linguistics. 21 April, 2023.[PDF][Video]
Squizzero, R., Horst, M., Wassink, A. B., Panicacci, A., Jensen, M., Moroz, A. K., Conrod, K., & Bender, E. M. (2022). Collecting and using race and ethnicity information in linguistic studies. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics 36. [DOI]
Wassink, A. B., Gansen, C., & Bartholomew, I. (2022). Uneven success: automatic speech recognition and ethnicity-related dialects. Speech Communication 140. 50-70. [DOI]
Wassink, A. B. (2021). Uneven Success: Racial Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition. Invited lecture: Martin Luther King, Jr. Colloquium, University of Michigan, Department of Linguistics. 18 January, 2021. [PDF][Video]
Wassink, A. B., & Hargus, S. (2020). Heritage Language Features and the Yakama English Dialect. Publication of the American Dialect Society 105 (1). 11–38. [DOI]
Fridland, V., Wassink, A. B., Hall-Lew, L., & Kendall, T. (2020). Speech in the Western States, vol 3: Understudied Varieties. Publications of the American Dialect Society.
Wassink, A. (2020). Uneven success: Automatic speech recognition and ethnicity-related dialects. Talk presented at AAAS, Seattle, WA.[PDF][Video]
Journal Publications and Conference Proceedings
Bender, E. M., Morgan, J. T., Oxley, M., Zachry, M., Hutchinson, B., Marin, A., Zhang, B., & Ostendorf, M. (2011). Annotating social acts: Authority claims and alignment moves in Wikipedia talk pages. Proceedings of the ACL-HLT Workshop on Language in Social Media (LSM 2011), Portland, Oregon. [PDF]
Evans, B. E. (2013). Seattle to Spokane: Mapping perceptions of English in WA. Journal of English Linguistics 41. 268-291.
Evans, B. E. (2013). Everybody sounds the same: Otherwise overlooked ideology in perceptual dialectology. American Speech 88:1. 63-80.
Evans, B. E. (2011). Seattletonian to Faux Hick: Mapping perceptions of English in WA. American Speech 86:4. 383-413.
Franklin, A., Stoel-Gammon, C & Wassink, A. B. (2008). Acoustic quantification of /i/-/I/ overlap in children 21 to 33 months. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 10:5. 1-14.
Freeman, V. (2014). Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger in Pacific Northwest English. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, 32. [PDF]
Fridland, V., Kendall, T., Wassink, A. B. and Evans, B. (2017) Speech in the Western States, vol 2: The Mountain West. Publications of the American Dialect Society.
Fridland, V., Kendall, T., Wassink, A. B. and Evans, B. (2016) Speech in the Western States, vol 1: The Coastal states. Publications of the American Dialect Society 101, No. 1
MacLeod, A.N., Stoel-Gammon, C., & Wassink, A. B. (2009). Production of high vowels in Canadian English and Canadian French: a comparison of early bilingual and monolingual speakers. Journal of Phonetics 37:4. 374-387.
Morgan, J.T., Oxley, M., Bender, E.M., Zhu, L., Gracheva, V., & Zachry, M. (2013). Are we there yet?: The development of a corpus annotated for social acts in multilingual online discourse. Dialogue and Discourse Special Issue Beyond Semantics: The Challenges of Annotating Pragmatic and Discourse Phenomena, 4(2), 1-33.
Oxley, M., Morgan, J.T., Zachry, M., & Hutchinson, B. (2010). "What I Know Is...": Establishing credibility on Wikipedia talk pages. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2010), Gdansk, Poland.
Puthuval, S. and Wang, X. (2016). “Hohhot, Language of.” In Sybesma et al, eds., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics.
Scanlon, M. & Wassink, A. B. (2010). Using Acoustic Trajectory Information in Studies of Merger. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics.
Scanlon, M. & Wassink A. B. (2010). African American English in Urban Seattle: accommodation and intra-speaker variation in the Pacific Northwest. American Speech 85:2. 205-224.
Tatman, R. (2016) "'I'm a spawts guay': Comparing the use of sociophonetic variables in speech and Twitter. Selected papers from NWAV 44. [PDF]
Wassink, A. B. (2015). “Sociolinguistic Patterns in Seattle English” Language Variation and Change 27(1): 31-58. [DOI]
Wassink, A. B., Wright, R. A. & Franklin, A. (2007). Intraspeaker variability in vowel production: an investigation of motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard speech in Jamaican speakers. Journal of Phonetics 35:3. 363-379.
Wassink, A. B. (2006). A geometric representation of spectral and temporal vowel features: Quantification of vowel overlap in three varieties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119:4. 2334-2350.