BS (Georgetown), MA (Memphis), PhD (Michigan State)
Associate Professor
Specialization:
Sociolinguistics, Vowel perception and production, Ethnic and social dialects of English.
Select Publications:
The social and linguistic conditioning of back vowel fronting across ethnic groups in Memphis, TN. To appear in English Language and Linguistics.
Fridland, Valerie, Bartlett, Kathy and Roger Kruez. In Press. Making sense of variation: Pleasantness and education ratings of regional vowel variants. To Appear in American Speech.
Fridland, Valerie, Bartlett, Kathryn and Roger Kreuz. 2004. Do you hear what I hear? Experimental measurement of the perceptual salience of acoustically manipulated vowel variants by Southern speakers in Memphis, TN. In: Language Variation and Change 16: 1-16.
Tide, tied and tight :The expansion of /ai/ monopthongization in African-American and European-American speech in Memphis, TN. 2004. In: Journal of Sociolinguistics 7: 279-298.
Quiet in the Court: Attorney's silencing strategies during courtroom cross-examination. 2003. In: Lynn Theismeyer (ed.) Discourse and Silencing. Benjamins Press. pp 119-138.