Publications and Presentations

Click to see selected publications, refereed presentations, and dissertations of UW Sociolinguistics Lab members.



Latest Lab Member Publications/Presentations

Wassink, A. B. (2025). Variation in Psycho-Emotional Impacts: Underrepresented Dialect Speakers’ Experiences with Automatic Speech Recognition. Plenary presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 5 November, 2025.[PDF]

Lindekugel, K. (2025). Introduction to Linguistics: Inclusion, Belonging, and Curriculum. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 5 November, 2025.[PDF]

Gill-Saucier, T. (2025). “They Talk More Like That”: A Pile-Sort Analysis of Dialect Perception on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 5 November, 2025.

Ananthanarayan, S. & Lapierre, M. (2025). It's right under your nose: Nasality as a window into change stemming from variation in Panãra. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 6 November, 2025.

Fossen, C. (2025). From Silence to Violence: A Critical Discourse Analysis of University President Blog Posts on Palestine, Israel, and Campus Protests. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 6 November, 2025.[POSTER]

Garner, J., & Humbert, F. (2025). “Is this new, question mark?”: An Emerging Example of Spoken Punctuation in English. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 6 November, 2025.

Wassink, A. B., Gill-Saucier, T., & Humbert, F. (2025). It rolls off the tongue: sociophonetic variation in the articulation of /r/ in three varieties of French. Talk presented at NWAV 53, University of Michigan, MI. 6 November, 2025.



Journal Publications and Conference Proceedings

2023

Wassink, A. B., Squizzero, R., Horst, M., Panicacci, A., & Bender, E. M. (2023). Preaching to the Choir: What all linguists need to know about defining and operationalizing ethnicity and race in research. Talk presented at NWAV 51, Queens College, NY. 15 October, 2023.[PDF]

Peng, Y. (2023). Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language in Washington State. Poster presented at NWAV 51, Queens College, NY. 14 October, 2023.

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]

Evans, B., Hugo, R., Panicacci, A.(2023). Language as Part of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Agenda. Talk presented at Language Latitudes Workshop, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. 14 April, 2023.


2022

Wassink, A. B., Gansen, C., & Bartholomew, I. (2022). Uneven success: automatic speech recognition and ethnicity-related dialects. Speech Communication 140. 50-70. [DOI]

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]


2015-2020

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.

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

Puthuval, S. and Wang, X. (2016). “Hohhot, Language of.” In Sybesma et al, eds., Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics.

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]


2010-2014

Freeman, V. (2014). Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger in Pacific Northwest English. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, 32. [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.

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.

Evans, B. E. (2011). Seattletonian to Faux Hick: Mapping perceptions of English in WA. American Speech 86:4. 383-413.

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]

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.

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.


2000-2009

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.

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.

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.

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Presentations and Talks

2015-2021

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. (2020). Uneven success: Automatic speech recognition and ethnicity-related dialects. Talk presented at AAAS, Seattle, WA.[PDF][Video]

Conrod, K. (2019). Language, Gender, and Harm. Invited panel: Diversifying Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics, Washington D.C. March 29-31. [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. & Chartier, N. (2018). Insufficient Data and the Mystery of the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. Presented at the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL). April 13-14, 2018 (Reed College, Portland, OR). [PDF]

Squizzero, R. (2018). Bull or bowl? A production study of prelateral back vowel mergers in Pacific Northwest English. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL). April 13-14, 2018 (Reed College, Portland, OR). [PDF]

Chartier, N. & Jones, B. (2018). Six Views of New England: Mapping Perceptions of New England Speech. Poster presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 47), New York, NY, Oct. 18-21.[PDF]

Chartier, N. (2017). The changing state of the New England dialect: The case of southeastern New Hampshire. Poster presented at NorthWest Phon{etics, ology} Conference (NoWPhon) 3, University of British Columbia, May 19-21. [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. (2017). Physiological and Linguistic Influences on the Speech of Rachel Jeantel. Presentation at NBASLH, Atlanta, GA., April 6. [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. (2016). The Social Networks of Minority Ethnicity Group Members in Washington State. Presentation at NWAV 45, Vancouver, BC., Nov 3 - 6. [PDF]

Puthuval, S. (2016). “A language vitality assessment for Mongolian in Inner Mongolia, China”. Paper presented at the 2nd Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics, Bloomington, IN, October 7-9.

Puthuval, S. (2016). “Mapping language shift in Inner Mongolia.” Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of Washington.

Wassink, A. B. (2015). Network Connectedness of Japanese-Americans in Metropolitan Seattle. Presented to the Working Group in Urban Sociolinguistics, Dec. 11, 2015 (New York University). [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. (2015) Dialect evolution in the Pacific Northwest: Reanalysis and conventionalization of a universal phonetic pattern. Plenary presentation given at the 89th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland OR. [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. (2015) Vowel Raising in Washington State: the cat's out of the B(ɛ̝g). Presentation given as part of the panel, "Western Speech". Annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, Portland OR. [PDF]

Freeman, V. (2015). The prevelar vowel system in Seattle. Poster presented at the American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, Jan. 8-11, 2015.

Puthuval, S. (2015). “Language, identity and the moral high ground in Inner Mongolia: Practical problems for language shift research.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Language Shift in the Sinophone World, Seattle, WA, November 6.

Puthuval, S. (2015). “The slow spread of Chinese in Inner Mongolia.” Poster, 44th New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference, Toronto, Canada, October 22-25.

Puthuval, S. (2015) “Why general linguistics needs Mongolian linguistics.” Invited talk, Sociolinguistics Lecture Series, Inner Mongolia University School of Mongolian Studies, Hohhot, China, May 15.


2010-2015

Freeman, V. (2014). Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger in Seattle Caucasians. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 43), Chicago, Oct. 23-26, 2014. [PDF]

Freeman, V. (2014). Social differentiation of bag-raising in Seattle Caucasians. Paper presented at the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Mar. 1-2.[PDF]

Kempsell Jacinto, W. (2014, March 1). Language attitudes and bilingualism in popular film. Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL 1), University of Victoria, March 1-2, 2014. [PDF]

Oxley, M. (2014). “It’s complicated": Perceptions of dialect southernness in Deer Park, Texas. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 43). Chicago, IL. [PDF]

Puthuval, S. (2014) “Urbanization and language shift in Inner Mongolia: an intergenerational survey design.” Paper presented at the Urban Language Seminar 12th annual conference, Hohhot, China, September 1-4.

Riebold, J. M. (2014). The Ethnic Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 43), Chicago, Oct. 23-26, 2014.

Riebold, J. M. (2014). Language Change Isn't Only Skin Deep: Inter-Ethnic Contact and the Spread of Innovation in the Northwest. Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL 1), University of Victoria, March 1-2, 2014.

Swan, Julia Thomas. (2014). Sociolinguistic cues and nationality: A comparison of /æ/ among Seattle and Vancouver, B.C. speakers. Presentation at the Cascadia Workshop on Sociolinguistics, Victoria, B.C., Canada. PDF

Wassink, A. B. (2014). Vowel Raising in Washington State: What's the BAG deal? Presented at the first meeting of the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics (CWSL). March 1-2, 2014 (U of Victoria). [PDF]

Wassink, A. B. & Koops, C. K. (2013). Quantifying and Interpreting Vowel Formant Trajectory Information. Invited workshop presentation at NWAV 42, October 17 (Pittsburgh). [PDF]

Wassink, A.B., & Riebold, J. (2013). Individual Variation and Linguistic Innovation in the American Pacific Northwest. Workshop on the Actuation of Sound Change. University of Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago IL, April 17-18. [PDF]

Riebold, J. M. (2012). Please Merge Ahead: The Vowel Space of Pacific Northwestern English. Northwest Linguistics Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, April 7, 2012.

Freeman, V., Riebold, J. M., & Sykes, R. (2012). To [t] or not to [t]: Those are the strategies. University of Washington Department of Linguistics colloquium, Seattle, WA, USA, May 4, 2012.

Morgan, J.T., Oxley, M., Bender, E.M., Zachry, M., & Hutchinson, B. (2011). Authority claims as identity markers in Wikipedia discussion pages. Paper presented at Georgetown University Roundtable on Language and Linguistics (GURT 2011). Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Wassink, A. B. (2011). Vowel Reduction and Merger in the Pacific Northwest. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA. [PDF]


2000-2009

Scanlon, M. & Wassink, A. B. (2009). Using Acoustic Trajectory Information in Studies of Merger. Poster at NWAV 38, Ottawa, ON Oct. 22-25, 2009.

Wassink, A.B., Squizzero, R., Schirra, R. & Conn J. (2009). Effects of Style and Gender on Fronting and Raising of /e/, /e:/ and /ae/ before /g/ in Seattle English. Presentation at NWAV 38, Ottawa, ON Oct. 22-25, 2009. [PDF]

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Dissertations of Former Lab Members

Chartier, N. (2020). Old Stereotypes "Live free or Die": Addressing the evaluation problem of non-rhoticity in New Hampshire. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Scanlon, M. (2020). Stylistic Variation in AAL: Examining the social meaning of linguistic features in a Seattle community. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Conrod, K. (2019). Pronouns Raising and Emerging. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Fitzmorris, M. (2019). Productivity, influence, and evolution: The complex language shift of Modern Ladino. (Dissertation) [PDF]

DeJong, A. (2019). When change comes from within: The origin and diachronic development of 'positive' anymore from pre-Modern Scots to Modern North American English. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Panfili, L. (2018). Cross-Linguistic Acoustic Characteristics of Phonation: A Machine Learning Approach. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Puthuval, S. (2017). Language maintenance and shift across generations in Inner Mongolia, China. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Tatman, R. (2017). Modeling the Perceptual Learning of Novel Dialect Features. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Hugo, R. (2016). Endangered languages, technology and learning: A Yakama/Yakima Sahaptin case study. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Kempsell Jacinto, W. C. (2016). Language attitudes and bilingualism in Turkish-German popular film. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Burgess, M. (2015). Faculty attitudes towards heritage laguage and heritage language teaching policy in Washington State community college Spanish departments. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Freeman, V. (2015). The phonetics of stance-taking. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Oxley, M. (2015). Southern, Texan, or Both?: Southernness and Identity in Deer Park, Texas. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Riebold, J. M. (2015). The Social Distribution of a Regional Change: /æg, ɛg, eg/ in Washington State. (Dissertation) [PDF]

Miller, J. C. (2013). The Phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabaskan). (Dissertation) [PDF]

Waltmunson, J. (2005). 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. (Dissertation) [PDF]

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