Changelings Participants

Faculty and Staff

	Kathryn Campbell-Kibler: I study sociolinguistic cognition, trying to better understand how people learn about each other through language variation. My current research focuses on regional variation within Ohio and how different types of variation are socially conceptualized.
	Hope Dawson: My research focuses on the history of Sanskrit, and of Indo-European languages more generally. I am also interested in language contact and language variation, and the role they play in language change.
	Brian D. Joseph: My work centers on the study of language change, with particular attention to the history of Greek as a member of the Indo-European family and in relation to its neighbors in the Balkans. As a result, I have looked at the ways Greek has developed from earliest times (Mycenaean Greek of the 14th century BC) up through and into the contemporary period. This has involved me in studying internally motivated change, change due to language contact, social factors in determining language change, and details of the synchronic analysis of various stages of the language. It has also led me into a deep study of Albanian, as a neighbor of Greek that is of particular interest for similar reasons (language contact, social factors, etc.). The mix of interest in these two languages come to the fore in a project I am involved in studying the Greek dialects of southern Albania. Subsidiary interests include the history of Sanskrit, the role of changing ecological niches (broadly understood) in the development and sustainability of language and of specific languages, and the intersection of ideology and language especially insofar as nationalism and individual and group identity are concerned.
	Donald Winford: My teaching and research interests are in creole linguistics, variationist sociolinguistics, contact linguistics, and African-American English.

Students

	Rachel Burdin: Grad student in Linguistics. Interested in some stuff.
	Katie Carmichael: Grad student in Linguistics. I am a Ph.D. candidate interested in sociophonetics, language and identity, and New Orleans English.
	Cynthia Johnson: Grad student in Linguistics. Grad student in Linguistics. My primary research interests are morphological change in Indo-European and topics in morphosyntax and morphological theory. I recently completed a study on ergativity in English and am currently working on a larger project comparing strategies for multiple antecedent agreement (i.e. agreement with coordinate structures) across various Indo-European languages.
	Marivic Lesho: Grad student in Linguistics. My research interests include contact linguistics, language variation and change, and phonetics and phonology. My dissertation is a sociophonetic analysis of the Cavite Chabacano vowel system.
	Rachel Klippenstein: Grad student in Linguistics. Interested in some old stuff.
	David Mitchell Grad student in Linguistics. Interested in stuff.
	Jane Mitsch Grad student in Linguistics. I study sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, particularly of West African languages. I am interested in sociophonetics and perceptual dialectology.
	Brice Russ: Grad student in Linguistics. My primary research focus is on sociolinguistic approaches to computer-mediated communication, with a particular interest in variationist perspectives on language use in social media. My most recent work examines the creation of social meaning on Facebook and Twitter by studying perceptual judgments of orthographic abbreviations. I'm also interested in dialectology, corpus linguistics, and language variation in general.
	Bridget Smith: Grad student in Linguistics. I am generally interested in how language users process phonetic variation: When does phonetic variation create difficulty for listeners? When does it provide a benefit? And when does it lead to sound change? Lately, I've been looking at perceptual learning as a potential mechanism underlying sound change, but I am also starting another project that examines the role of literacy in phonemic perception to look for a cognitive basis for labeling variation as phonetic or phonemic.
	Abby Walker: Grad student in Linguistics. I'm a sociophonetician (or phonesociolinguist?) using primarily experimental methods to investigate what speech production, speech perception, and people perception (based on speech), can tell us about how language is organized and utilized in the mind.
	Shontael Wanjema: Grad student in Linguistics. I am interested in some stuff.

Changelings from years past

• Meghan Armstrong
• Mary Beckman
• Chris Brew
• Pilar Chamorro
• Steve Conley
• Angelo Costanzo
• David Durian
• Marcia Farr
• Craig Hilts
• Ilse Lehiste
• Jessica McHenry
• Galey Modan
• Ila Nagar
• Julia Papke
• Mary Rose
• Helen Riha
• Scott Schwenter
• Bee Shuman
• Sarah Sinnott
• Christin Wilson