tyler kendall, phd

language variation & computation laboratory

The lab is being set up! See the website for directions and updates as the equipment comes in.

select publications & papers

• Martha's Vineyard Times newspaper, August 16, 2011: 50 years of language study began on Martha's Vineyard.
  
  
• 2012, with Valerie Fridland, Exploring the relationship between production and perception in the mid front vowels of U.S. English. Lingua, in press.
• 2012, with Valerie Fridland, Variation in perception and production of mid front vowels in the U.S. Southern Vowel Shift. Journal of Phonetics, 40.2: 289-306.
• 2011, with Joan Bresnan and Gerard Van Herk, The dative alternation in African American English: Researching syntactic variation and change across sociolinguistic datasets. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 7.2, 229-244. [ manuscript, PDF ]
• 2011, Corpora from a sociolinguistic perspective (Corpora sob uma perspectiva sociolinguística). In Stefan Th. Gries (Ed.), "Corpus studies: Future directions", special issue of Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11.2, 361-389. [ HTML | PDF ]
• 2011, with Gerard Van Herk (Eds.), "Corpus linguistics and sociolinguistic inquiry", special issue of Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 7.1.
• 2010, with Valerie Fridland, Mapping production and perception in regional vowel shifts. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
• 2010, Accommodating (ING): Individual variation in mixed-ethnicity interviews. In B. Heselwood and C. Upton, (eds.), Proceedings of Methods XIII: Papers from the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, 2008: 351-61. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. [ manuscript, PDF ]
• 2009, Speech Rate, Pause, and Linguistic Variation: An Examination Through the Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project, Doctoral Dissertation. Durham, NC: Duke University. [ (sort of) summary | PDF (13.1mb) ]
• 2009, with Walt Wolfram. Local and external standards in African American English. Journal of English Linguistics, 37.4: 305-330.
• 2009, with Christine Mallinson. "The way I can speak for myself": The social and linguistic context of counseling interviews with African American adolescent girls in Washington, DC. In S. L. Lanehart (ed.), African American Women's Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity: 110-126. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• 2008. On the history and future of sociolinguistic data. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.2: 332-351.
• 2007. Listening to silence: Interpretation and transcription of pause in deposition. In M. T. Turell, M. Spassova, and J. Cicres (eds.), Proceedings of the Second European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law: 323-332. Barcelona: IULA, Documenta Universitaria.
• 2007. Enhancing sociolinguistic data collections: The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: 15-26. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
• 2007. "The people what makes the town": The semiotics of home and town spaces in Princeville, NC. The North Carolina Folklore Journal 54.1: 33-53.

[ See my CV for a complete list of my publications. See the SLAAP Papers page for links/handouts/pdfs for various SLAAP-related papers and talks. ]

older teaching

Corpus Linguistics (Univ. of Oregon Spring 2011) | Language Variation and Change Research Seminar (Univ. of Oregon Winter 2011) | Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Univ. of Oregon Fall 2010 & Spring 2011) | Sound Patterns in Human Language (Northwestern Univ. Winter 2010) | Applications in Corpus and Computational Linguistics (Duke Univ. Spring 2008) | Introduction to Linguistics (NC State Univ. Spring 2007; Duke Univ. Fall 2006) | Variety in Language (Duke Univ. Spring 2006) | Continuing Old English (Duke Univ. Spring 2005)

linguistic software

• The Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (SLAAP)
• NORM: The Vowel Normalization and Plotting Suite (with Erik Thomas)
  
  & Vowels: Vowel Manipulation, Normalization, and Plotting in the R language
• Web-based, audio-supporting survey tool (in progress)
• A script to convert Praat TextGrid transcripts to readable text
• A script to convert Transcriber transcripts to Praat TextGrids