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CV (2015)

Rbrul (user-friendly app for regression analysis)
Tweet Mapper (search Twitter and display results on a map)

Blog (songs, poems, thoughts, linguistics, etc.)

LOT (2015 summer school syllabus)
LOT (2015 summer school syllabus revised for the reading-averse)


Single-Authored Publications

• Progress in regression: Why natural language data calls for mixed-effects models
  Self-published manuscript (2014)
  
  
• Descriptive statistics
  In Podesva and Sharma (eds.), Research Methods in Linguistics 288-315 (2013)
  
  
• Stability and Change Along a Dialect Boundary: The Low Vowels of Southeastern New England
  Publication of the American Dialect Society 95 (2010)
  
  
• Getting off the GoldVarb standard: Introducing Rbrul for mixed-effects variable rule analysis
  Language and Linguistics Compass 3/1: 359-383 (2009)

Selected Co-Authored Publications

• New England (with David Durian)
  In Hickey (ed.), Listening to the Past, 257-297 (2017)
  
  
• Constant effects and the independence of variants in controlled judgment data (with Bill Haddican and Nanna Haug Hilton)
  Linguistic Variation 16/2: 247-266 (2016)
  
  
• Partial mergers and near-distinctions: Stylistic layering in dialect acquisition (with Jennifer Nycz)
  University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 21/2: Article 13 (2015)
  
  
• How do utterance measures predict raters' perceptions of fluency in French as a second language? (with Yvonne Prefontaine and Judit Kormos)
  Language Testing (2015)
  
  
• Focus effects on particle placement in English (with Bill Haddican)
  Proceedings of the 43rd Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society 143-153 (2014)
  
  
• Sociolinguistic variation on the Scottish-English border (with Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas)
  In Lawson (ed.), Sociolinguistics in Scotland, 79-102 (2014)
  
  
• Quantitative analysis (with Kyle Gorman)
  In Bayley, Cameron and Lucas (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics, 214-240 (2013)
  
  
• William Labov (with Kara Becker)
  In McGee and Warms (eds.), Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia, 449-452 (2013)
  
  
• Constant linguistic effects in the diffusion of be like (with Mercedes Durham, Bill Haddican, Eytan Zweig, et al.)
  Journal of English Linguistics 40/4: 316-337 (2012)
  
  
• Effects on the particle verb alternation across English dialects (with Bill Haddican)
  University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 18/2: Article 5 (2012)
  
  
• Levels of linguistic accommodation across a national border (with Dominic Watt and Carmen Llamas)
  Journal of English Linguistics 38/3: 270-289 (2010)
  
  
• Linguistic accommodation and the salience of national identity markers in a border town (with Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt)
  Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28/4: 381-407 (2009)
  
  
• A comparison of three speaker-intrinsic vowel formant frequency normalization algorithms for sociophonetics (with Anne Fabricius and Dominic Watt)
  Language Variation and Change 21/3: 413-435 (2009)

Selected Presentations and Posters

• Diatopic uniformitarianism and the nasal vowels of Wallonia (2017 presentation at Lyon 3)
  
  
• The role of geography in linguistic change: Existential agreement in European Spanish (2017 presentation at ENS Lyon)
  
  
• The diffusion of the low back merger in New York City (2016 NWAV poster with Bill Haddican, Michael Newman and Faith Kim)
  
  
• Effects on the particle verb alternation in a global Twitter corpus (2016 ProbX presentation)
  
  
• Quantifying overlap with Bhattacharyya's affinity (and other measures!) (2015 NWAV presentation)
  
  
• How independent are the variants of a linguistic variable? (And how much does it matter?) (2015 Penn/IRCS Common Ground with Bill Haddican)
  
  
• How independent are the variants of a linguistic variable? (2015 CUNY Sociolinguistics Lunch with Bill Haddican)
  
  
• How do utterance measures predict raters' perceptions of fluency in French as a second language? (2015 AAAL presentation with Yvonne Prefontaine and Judit Kormos)
  
  
• Partial mergers and near-distinctions: stylistic layering in dialect acquisition (2014 NWAV presentation with Jennifer Nycz)
  
  
• The nasal vowels of Wallonia (2014 AFLS presentation)
  
  
• Variation won't give the ghost up: the verb-particle 'interaction' in and out of grammar (2013 invited talk, Georgetown)
  
  
• Localizing the effects on the English particle verb alternation (2013 LAGB presentation with Bill Haddican)
  
  
• A compositional approach to sociophonetic variation (2013 CoDaWork presentation)
  
  
• Why stepwise isn't so wise (2010 NWAV panel)
  
  
• Mixed models and why sociolinguists should use them (2009 NWAV panel)

Workshops

• Quantitative methods in sociolinguistics (2014 SSS 5 workshop, Dublin) slides exercises
  
  
• Introduction to regression and mixed models in R (2014 workshop, Kent .zip)
  
  
• Introduction to mixed-effects models in R (2013 workshop, Glasgow) slides exercises
  
  
• R, regression, and mixed models (2013 workshop, Bangor)
  
  
• R, regression, and mixed models (2013 workshop, York)
  
  
• Statistical analysis of speech data (2011 SSS 3 workshop, Glasgow)
  
  
• Quantitative analysis with Rbrul and R (2010 NWAV workshop .zip)

Juvenilia

• Stability and change along a dialect boundary: the low vowels of southeastern New England (2007 Penn dissertation)
  
  
• The nasal vowels of Wallonia (2001 Penn term paper)
  
  
• The tensing and laxing of short 'a' in New Haven, Connecticut (1998 Yale senior essay)