Corpus linguistics is a rapidly growing methodology that uses the statistical analysis of large collections of written or spoken data (corpora) to investigate linguistic phenomena.
Personnel
Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change, Southern US Englishes, African American Language, Phonetics, Phonology
Computational linguistics, Cognitive science
Some Current Projects:
Grammaticalization and language change in Romance Languages Language variation and change in social media Incipient Language Shift in a Southern Latino Community Indigenous Languages in Latin America: Contact, Shift, and Maintenance
Language variation, Corpus linguistics, American English
Slavic prosody and the phonology/morphology interface; historical Slavic linguistics and accentology; and sociolinguistics, with a focus on questions of language and identity and language contact in the former Yugoslavia.
Phonetics, Phonology, Laboratory Phonology, Speech Acoustics, Romance Languages, English