Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University
M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University
B.SC. in Biology, Stanford University
Associate Professor of Linguistics And Social & Cultural Analysis
Ph.D. in Linguistics, Stanford University
M.A. in Linguistics, Stanford University
B.SC. in Biology, Stanford University
Urban sociolinguistics, African American/Black Language Matters, Language and Cultures of the Caribbean, Language Variation and Change, Morphosyntax, Sociophonetics
“Second Generation West Indian Americans and English in New York City,” with Cara Shousterman, English Today 26(3) (2010): 35-43.
“Diachrony and AAE: St. Louis, Hip-Hop and Sound Change Outside of the Mainstream,” with Cara Shousterman, Journal of English Linguistics 38(3) (2010): 230-247.
“Defining the Envelope of Linguistic Variation: The Case of “Don’t Count” forms in the Copula Analysis of African American Vernacular English.”Language Variation and Change 9(1) (1997): 57-80.
"Barbadian Creole English: Insights into Class and Race Identity," Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (1996);
"Rappin' on the Copula Coffin: Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Analysis of Copula Variation in African American Vernacular English," with J. Rickford, A. Ball, R. Jackson, and N. Martin, Language Variation and Change 3 (1991): 103-32;
"Contraction and Deletion of the Copula in Barbadian English," with John Rickford, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 16 (1990): 257-68.