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David Bowie

 

Department of English
University of Alaska Anchorage
3211 Providence Dr
Anchorage AK 99508-4614
Phone: (907)786-4359
Fax: (907)687-4383

This document last updated 7 May 2015

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PhD in Linguistics, 2000

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

BA in Linguistics, 1994

Prince George’s Community College, Largo, Maryland

AA in General Studies, 1989

Professional experience

University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska

Associate Professor, 2014 to present

Assistant Professor, 2009 to 2014

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Assistant Professor, 2003 to 2009

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Assistant Professor, 2000 to 2003

Instructor, 1999 to 2000

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Research Fellow, 1996 to 1997

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

Teaching Assistant, 1993

Research interests

Sociolinguistics, intraspeaker variation, language and aging, language and religion

Teaching competencies

General linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics/phonology, syntax/grammar, dialectology, fieldwork methods, survey methods, quantitative analysis, first-year composition

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Baker-Smemoe, Wendy & David Bowie. 2015. Linguistic behavior and religious activity. Language & Communication 42. 116–124.

Ozuru, Yasuhiro, David Bowie, & Giulia Kaufman. 2015. Relation between understanding and agreeing in response to one-sentence assertion. Language and Cognition 7. 36–67.

Ozuru, Yasuhiro, Kenrick Mock, David Bowie, & Giulia Kaufman. 2015 (in press). Why do people disagree with a statement they do not understand? Relations between comprehension and evaluation of a simple assertion. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.

Bowie, David. 2014. Age: Methods and metadata. Language and Linguistics Compass 8. 519–528.

Bowie, David. 2012. Early trends in a newly developing variety of English. Dialectologia 8. 27–47.

Bowie, David. 2012. Using the DARE questionnaire to teach students new to linguistics. American Speech 87. 224-232.

Book chapters (peer-reviewed)

Bowie, David. 2015 (in press). Phonological variation in real time: Patterns of adult linguistic stability and change. In Anja Voeste & Annette Gerstenberg (eds.), Language development: The lifespan perspective. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins.

Bowie, David & Malcah Yaeger-Dror. 2015 (in press). Phonological change in real time. In Patrick Honeybone & Joseph Salmons (eds.), The Oxford handbook of historical phonology. Chapter 34. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

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Conference presentations (peer-reviewed)

Bowie, Jeanne M., & David Bowie. 2009. Perception of road signs by road users. Part of poster session titled Traffic control devices. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board, 13 January, in Washington, DC.

Bowie, David. 2009b. Linguistics in the elementary school language arts classroom. Part of panel titled Fostering synergistic partnerships between teachers and linguists. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 8 January, in San Francisco, California.

Chao, Mariana, and David Bowie. 2008. The acquisition of attitudes toward language by undergraduates in linguistics courses. Paper presented at NWAV 37, 9 November, in Houston, Texas.

Baker, Wendy, and David Bowie. 2008. Religious affiliation as a correlate of linguistic behavior. Paper presented at NWAV 37, 7 November, in Houston, Texas.

Bowie, David, and Blair Remington. 2008. Capitalizing on undergraduates’ research expertise.” Paper presented at the Florida Statewide Symposium: Engagement in Undergraduate Research, 26 September, in Orlando, Florida.

Bowie, David, and Jeanne M. Bowie. 2008. The perception of linguistic and non-linguistic inputs: The case of road signs. Paper presented at the 35th Annual LACUS Forum, 14 June, in Québec City, Québec.

Chao, Mariana, David Bowie, Wendy Baker, Catie Fry, and Matthew Armand. 2008. The sociophonetic effects of religious affiliation in Utah County, Utah, USA. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, 4 April, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Bowie, David. 2007b. Attitudinal shifts among undergraduates in linguistics courses. Part of panel titled Conflicts over contemporary language issues: Pedagogical approaches to defusing the undergraduate linguistic curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 5 January, in Anaheim, California.

Bowie, David. 2007c. “Wow! Linguistics really has no pedagogy!” A review of what (little) we know about teaching linguistics. Poster presented at the third Annual Faculty Showcase on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 4 April, in Orlando, Florida.

Chao, Mariana, Stephanie Colombo, and David Bowie. 2007. Linguistic stability and variation across the lifespan. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 5 January, in Anaheim, California.

Azrikan, Melissa, David Bowie, Mariana Chao, and Amanda Cobb. 2006. Somewhere between North and South: Spoken English in inland Central Florida. Panel presented at the Florida College English Association 2006 Conference, 9 November, in Lakeland, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006a. The limits of adult linguistic stability. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 6 January, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Bowie, David. 2006b. Adult linguistic stability and the gathering of linguistic evidence. Poster presented at the International Conference on Linguistic Evidence 2006, 3 February, in Tübingen, Germany.

Bowie, David. 2006c. Student attitudes in online and face-to-face environments: Observing the acquisition of secondary objectives. Poster presented at the second Annual Faculty Showcase on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 24 March, in Orlando, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006d. Aging and sociolinguistic variation. Paper presented at GlobE 2006, 21 September, in Warsaw, Poland.

Bowie, David. 2005b. Acoustic characteristics of Utah’s card-cord merger. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 8 January, in Oakland, California.

Baker, Wendy, and David Bowie. 2005. Is the US West a single dialect region? Northern Utah as a test case. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, 7 January, in Oakland, California.

Baker, Wendy, David Bowie, Daniel Sarver, Jared Brickey, and Diane Argyle. 2005. The social conditioning of second dialect acquisition. Paper presented at the Fourteenth World Congress of Applied Linguistics, 29 July, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Bowie, David. 2004a. Linguistic behavior and social affiliation in an urbanizing community. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 8 January, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Bowie, David. 2004b. Language change over the lifespan: A test of the apparent time construct. Poster presented at NWAV 33, 1 October, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Argyle, Diane, Wendy Baker, and David Bowie. 2004. Linguistic markers of religious affiliation: The influence of socially salient characteristics. Poster presented at NWAV 33, 1 October, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bowie, David. 2003c. Urbanization vs. regionalization in Utah speech: A reanalysis with ramifications. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, 4 January, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Bowie, David. 2002b. Resolving a paradox: Utah English as a test case for theories of dialect leveling. Paper presented at Studies in the History of the English Language II, 23 March, in Seattle, Washington.

Bowie, David. 2002c. The process of lexical change: The same or different? Paper presented at NWAV 31, 12 October, in Stanford, California.

Bowie, David. 2002d. Lexical and phonetic change in Southern Maryland: A comparison. Paper presented at Measuring Lexical Variation and Change: A Symposium on Quantitative Sociolexicology, 24 October, in Leuven, Belgium.

Morkel, Wendy, and David Bowie. 2002. Choosing between variables: Monophthongization and raising in early Utah English. Poster presented at NWAV 31, 11 October, in Stanford, California.

Bowie, David. 2001d. The limits of solutions to the actuation problem. Paper presented at the 2001 Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium, 23 March, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 2001e. The more things change: The limits of solutions to the actuation problem. Paper presented at the 28th LACUS Forum, 1 August, in Montréal, Québec.

Bowie, David, Wendy Morkel, and Ellen Lund. 2001. Early trends in Utah English. Paper presented at NWAV 30, 12 October, in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bowie, David. 2000a. Perception and production in processes of merger. Presented at the 2000 Deseret Language and Linguistics Symposium, 6 April, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 2000b. Perception and production in a set of related mergers. Paper presented at the 27th LACUS Forum, 29 July, in Houston, Texas.

Bowie, David. 2000c. Dialect contact and dialect change: The effect of near-mergers. Paper presented at NWAV 29, 5 October, in East Lansing, Michigan.

Bowie, David. 1999a. Observations on the (ir)reversibility of merger. Paper presented at the second Shenandoah Language and Linguistics Symposium, 25 March, in Buena Vista, Virginia.

Bowie, David. 1998a. South of the border? The classification of the linguistic system of a Maryland town. Paper presented at the 22nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 27 February, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Bowie, David. 1998b. Does perception really lead production? Evidence from a series of related mergers in Southern Maryland. Paper presented at NWAV(E) 27, 2 October, in Athens, Georgia.

Bowie, David. 1997c. Voah mei daett sei deitsh: Developments in the vowel system of Pennsylvania German. Paper presented at the 21st Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 23 February, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Invited presentations

Morrison-Shetlar, Alison, Michael Aldarondo-Jeffries, David Bowie, Ken Teter, & Shannon Whitten. 2008. Best practices in mentoring: A panel review and discussion. Panel discussion at the Florida Statewide Symposium: Engagement in Undergraduate Research, 27 September, in Orlando, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2008b. Translating culture: The ChinaVine experience. Paper presented to the College of Chinese Language and Literature of Beijing Normal University, 13 May, in Beijing, People’s Republic of China.

Bowie, David. 2006e. Middle English in disguise! The secrets of (Modern) English spelling. Workshop presented to Ms. Mandy Thomas’s first grade language arts class, Lakemont Elementary School, 16 February, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2002e. Sociolinguistics: Language use in real life. Workshop presented at the Professional Development Conference of the Translation Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 May, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 2002f. Then and now: A century and a half of Utah English. Paper presented at the College Fair of the Brigham Young University College of Humanities, 28 August, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 2002g. The early development of Utah English. Paper presented for World Literature Week, 12 November, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 2001f. Barn in a born? The development of a stereotype of Utah speech. Paper presented to the Center for Language Studies, 27 September, in Provo, Utah.

Bowie, David. 1999b. Borrowing from English and dialect divergence in Pennsylvania German. Paper presented to the English Language Forum, 9 October, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Community outreach presentations

Bowie, David. 2008c (forthcoming). Register. Workshop presented at the Lakemont Elementary School Teach-In, 19 November, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2007d. A secret code! (or, Old English). Workshop presented at the Lakemont Elementary School Teach-In, 14 November, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2006f. How to make halekaye. Workshop presented at the Lakemont Elementary School Teach-In, 15 November, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2005c. Middle English pronunciation, Modern English spelling. Workshop presented at the Lakemont Elementary School Teach-In, 16 November, in Winter Park, Florida.

Bowie, David. 2004c. How many wugs? Workshop presented at the Lakemont Elementary School Teach-In, 18 November, in Winter Park, Florida.

Source for features on regional linguistic variation for Slate, WPRK-FM (Winter Park, Florida), and the Badger Herald (Madison, Wisconsin). Source for features on Utah English for KNBC-TV (Los Angeles, California), KBYU-TV (Provo, Utah), KBYU-FM (Provo, Utah), KALL-AM (Salt Lake City, Utah), the New York Daily News, the Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City, Utah), and the Salt Lake (Utah) Tribune. Source for feature on Maryland English for the Washington (DC) Post. Source for feature on cultural maintenance for the Orlando (Florida) Sentinel.

Citations

Bowie 2008 cited in:

• Reeves, Larkin Hopkins. 2009. Patterns of vowel production in speakers of American English from the state of Utah. MS thesis, Department of Communication Disorders, Brigham Young University.

Bowie 2005a cited in:

• Baker, Wendy, David Eddington, and Lyndsey Nay. 2009. Dialect identification: The effects of region of origin and amount of experience. American speech 84:48-71.
• Brunner, Elizabeth Gentry. 2009. The study of variation from two perspectives. Language and linguistics compass 3:734-750.

Argyle, Baker, and Bowie 2004 cited in:

• Baker, Wendy. 2008. Social, experimental and psychological factors affecting L2 dialect acquisition. In Selected proceedings of the 2007 Second Language Research Forum, ed. Melissa Bowles, Rebecca Foote, Silvia Perpiñán, and Rakesh Bhatt, 187-198. Somerville, Massachusetts: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
• Baker, Wendy, David Eddington, and Lyndsey Nay. 2009. Dialect identification: The effects of region of origin and amount of experience. American speech 84:48-71.

Bowie 2003a cited in:

• Baker, Wendy, David Eddington, and Lyndsey Nay. 2009. Dialect identification: The effects of region of origin and amount of experience. American speech 84:48-71.
• Hazen, Kirk. 2005. Mergers in the Mountains: West Virginia Division and Unification. English World-Wide 26: 199-221.
• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Bowie 2002b cited in:

• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Morkel and Bowie 2002 cited in:

• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Bowie 2001a cited in:

• Holladay, Linda W. 2006. Language development in same-sex multiple-birth siblings: A retrospective nature/nurture study. PhD dissertation, Department of English, Auburn University.
• Ash, Sharon. 2004. A national survey of North American dialects. In Needed research in American dialects, ed. Dennis R. Preston, 57-73. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
• Milburn, Trudy. 2004. Speech community: Reflections upon communication. Communication Yearbook 28: 411-440.
• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Bowie 2001b cited in:

• Ash, Sharon. 2004. A national survey of North American dialects. In Needed research in American dialects, ed. Dennis R. Preston, 57-73. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Bowie 2001c cited in:

• Baker, Wendy, David Eddington, and Lyndsey Nay. 2009. Dialect identification: The effects of region of origin and amount of experience. American speech 84:48-71.
• Baker, Wendy, & Pavel Trofimovich. 2006. Perceptual paths to accurate production of L2 vowels: The role of individual differences. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 44: 231-250.
• Baker, Wendy, & Pavel Trofimovich. 2001. Does perception lead production? Evidence from Korean-English bilinguals. In LACUS forum XXVII: Speaking and comprehending, ed. Ruth M. Brend, Alan K. Melby, and Arle L. Lommel, 273-284. Fullerton, California: Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.

Bowie, Morkel, and Lund 2001 cited in:

• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Bowie 2000 [PhD dissertation] cited in:

• Baker, Wendy, David Eddington, and Lyndsey Nay. 2009. Dialect identification: The effects of region of origin and amount of experience. American speech 84:48-71.
• Clopper, Cynthia G. 2004. Linguistic experience and the perceptual classification of dialect variation. PhD diss., Department of Linguistics and Program in Cognitive Science, Indiana University.
• Conrey, Brianna, Geoffrey F. Potts, and Nancy A. Niedzielski. 2005. Effects of dialect on merger perception: ERP and behavioral correlates. Brain and Language 95: 435-449.
• De Decker, Paul. 2006. A real-time investigation of social and phonetic changes in post-adolescence. In Papers from NWAV 34, ed. Michael L. Friesner and Maya Ravindranath, 65-76. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.
• Hazen, Kirk. Mergers in the Mountains: West Virginia Division and Unification. English World-Wide 26: 199-221.
• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.
• Sankoff, Gillian, and Hélène Blondeau. 2007. Language change across the lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French. Language 83: 560-588.

Bowie 1998b cited in:

• Guenter, Josh. 2000. The vowels of California English before /r/, /l/, and /ŋ/. PhD diss., Department of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
• Guenter, Josh. 2000. What is American English /l/ really? Berkeley Linguistics Society: Proceedings of the annual meeting 26: 113-120.
• Thomas, Erik R. 2001. An acoustic analysis of vowel variation in New World English. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Bowie 1997b cited in:

• Ash, Sharon. 2004. A national survey of North American dialects. In Needed research in American dialects, ed. Dennis R. Preston, 57-73. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Fieldwork and archival experience

Ethnographic and sociolinguistic interviewing

People’s Republic of China, 2008

• Conducted anthropological and linguistic fieldwork as a member of a team of students and faculty documenting traditional folk arts in rural (Shandong Province) and urban (Beijing) China.

Florida, 2004; 2006; 2008

• Trained groups of students to do linguistic fieldwork, and coordinated their efforts. All fieldwork was conducted in Central Florida (mostly in Orlando) with the goal of developing a baseline understanding of Central Florida English to facilitate future research.

Maryland, 1997 to 1999; 2002

• Conducted sociolinguistic interviews with residents of a Southern Maryland town investigating linguistic perception and production, focusing on social factors relating to linguistic changes over time. Fieldwork from 1997 to 1999 conducted as dissertation research, with fieldwork in 2002 as a follow-up study.

United States (multiple sites), 1997 to 1998

• Sociolinguistic interviews conducted at many different sites with former residents of the same Southern Maryland town listed in the entry above, with the same goals.

Pennsylvania, 1994 to 1995

• Conducted ethnographic and sociolinguistic interviews with residents of a South Philadelphia neighborhood as part of a group investigating qualitative and quantitative linguistic patterns, focusing particularly on social factors influencing language use.

Archival research

Utah, 2000 to present

• An ongoing large project using an archive of religious addresses held by Brigham Young University’s Harold B. Lee Library in Provo, Utah. Project involves tracking the phonetic production of individual speakers over large segments of their adult lifespans to investigate linguistic changes that occur along with aging.

Maryland, 2002

• Used recordings of oral histories held by the Southern Maryland Studies Center in La Plata, Maryland to investigate phonetic production by residents of part of Southern Maryland born near the turn of the twentieth century.

Honors, awards, and external grants

2001

• $7,500 Annaley Naegle Redd Research Assistantship awarded by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies (Provo, Utah) to hire a graduate student research assistant to work on the early development of Utah English.

1994

• William Penn Fellowship awarded by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) to support pursuit of a doctoral degree. The highest award offered by the School to entering graduate students.
• Baccalaureate degree awarded with magna cum laude honors by the College of Arts and Humanities of the University of Maryland College Park (College Park, Maryland).

1989

• Associate’s degree awarded with honors by Prince George’s Community College (Largo, Maryland).

Student research mentoring

Masters thesis advisor

• Morkel, Wendy. 2003. Tracing a sound pattern: /ay/-monophthongization in Utah English. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Masters thesis committee member

• Johnson, Jeffrey L. 2000. A multi-dimensional analysis of academic email discussion groups: Examining features of speech and writing in email. MA thesis, Department of English, Brigham Young University.

Masters project committee member

• Girtman, Carla. 2005. Visual linguistics: Fostering critical thinking using visual design. MA project, Department of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

Senior honors thesis committee member

• McIntosh, Constance. 2006. Holy union: The original unity of The wife’s lament and The husband’s message in their cultural and ecclesiastical context. Honors thesis, Department of English, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

Senior capstone project committee member

• Chao, Mariana. 2007. National identity in music: A study of national anthems of the world. Capstone project, Department of Music, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL.

Undergraduate research faculty mentor

• Chao, Mariana. 2007. Patterns of coronal stop deletion in the United States West. Poster presented at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, 5 April, in Orlando, Florida.
• Colombo, Stephanie. 2007. Do you realize who you /r/ differently as you age? An acoustic analysis of the realization of American /r/ over the lifespan. Poster presented at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, 5 April, in Orlando, Florida. Honorable mention award winner, Arts and Humanities division.
• Pasternack, Adam R. 2005. Social and linguistic perceptions among natives of three states. Poster presented at the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, 15 April, in Orlando, Florida.
• Landes, Adrienne. 2002. Dialect and characterization in Mountain Meadows. Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities 2001-2002: 245-246.
• Lund, Ellen. 2002. Vowel laxing in Utah English: Early findings of the Early Utah English Project. Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities 2001-2002: 265-266.
• Hunley, Shaun. 2001. Defining gender differences in Suriname through language. Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities 2000-2001: 218-219.

Co-publications with students

With graduate students

• Bowie and Bowie 2009a
• Bowie and Bowie 2009b
• Bowie and Morkel 2006
• Bowie and Morkel 2003

Co-presentations with students

With graduate students

• Bowie and Bowie 2009
• Bowie and Bowie 2008
• Morkel and Bowie 2002

With graduate and undergraduate students

• Azrikan, Bowie, Chao, and Cobb 2006
• Bowie, Morkel, and Lund 2001

With undergraduate students

• Bowie and Remington 2008
• Chao, Bowie, Baker, Fry, and Armand 2008
• Chao, Colombo, and Bowie 2007
• Baker, Bowie, Sarver, Brickey, and Argyle 2005
• Argyle, Baker, and Bowie 2004

Courses taught

University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska

Intermediate Grammar, Fall 2009

• Introduction to concepts in modern syntactic theory. Aimed primarily at students minoring in linguistics and majoring in education and English.

The Nature of Language, Fall 2009

• General education introductory linguistics survey, covering core subfields of modern linguistics.

Standard Written English, Fall 2009

• Developed an approach focusing on the use of standard and non-standard forms of English in different contexts.

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

Composition I, Summer 2004

• Introductory writing course for entering students, requiring students to use personal experiences and secondary sources to develop arguments on current issues.

Cross-Cultural Communication, Fall 2003, 2005; Summer 2007

• Developed an approach using intensive simulations of intercultural contact combined with reading primary research in the field. Course taught online Summer 2007.

English Grammar and Usage, Summer 2009

• Graduate course covering advanced issues in current syntactic theory. Course taught online Summer 2009.

History of the English Language, Fall 2003, 2004; Spring, Summer 2005; Spring, Fall 2006; Spring, Fall 2008; Spring 2009

• Developed an approach combining rigorous training in general historical/comparative methods with specific exercises on aspects of the development of English. Course taught online Spring 2008.

Honors Composition I, Spring 2008

• Introductory writing course for entering students, focusing primarily on the genre-appropriate use of evidence to support arguments.

Honors Composition II, Spring 2004

• Introductory composition course focusing on the design and development of written arguments. Developed a section using materials from the generative semantics controversy of the 1970s to provide case studies on the rhetoric of argument.

Linguistics, Fall 2004; Spring 2006, 2008, 2009

• Graduate seminar in linguistics, primarily for literature and rhetoric students. Developed an approach involving fieldwork to investigate linguistic behavior in local speech communities. Course taught online Spring 2008.

Linguistics and Literature, Spring 2005, 2007; Fall 2008

• Advanced undergraduate course focusing on the application of sociolinguistic methods to (primarily electronic) texts. Developed an approach resulting in students creating a small TEI-compliant tagged corpus. Course taught online Fall 2008.

Methods of Bibliography and Research, Fall 2005

• Introductory course for all graduate English majors involving instruction in archival, fieldwork, and library research methods. Developed a unit where students assisted on a research project under the mentorship of a faculty member.

Modern English Grammar, Spring 2004; Fall 2006; Spring 2007

• Developed an approach contrasting traditional and modern theoretical approaches to syntax aimed primarily at aspiring editors and educators.

Principles of Linguistics, Fall 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008

• Introductory linguistics survey, covering core subfields of modern linguistics. Aimed primarily at students minoring in linguistics and majoring in education and English.

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Grammar and Usage, Fall 1999; Winter 2000, 2001, 2003

• Developed an approach contrasting traditional and modern theoretical approaches to syntax. Course aimed primarily at aspiring editors.

History of the English Language, Fall 2000; Spring 2003

• Developed an approach combining rigorous training in general historical/comparative methods with specific exercises on aspects of the development of English.

Introduction to Language, Fall 1999; Winter, Fall 2000; Winter, Fall 2001; Winter, Fall 2002

• Introductory linguistics survey aimed at beginning linguistics, TESOL, and English majors. Developed an approach involving fieldwork along with traditional problem set and examination assessments.

Language, Mind, and World, Winter 2003

• Introductory linguistics course aimed at students outside of linguistics. Developed (as part of a committee) and piloted an approach centered around debunking linguistic myths while teaching core linguistic concepts.

The Senior Course: Dialect in Literature, Winter 2002

• Developed a section of the English major senior capstone course to bridge literary and linguistic approaches to language, dealing primarily with the literary use of regional and ethnic varieties. Students used published studies, including dialect atlases, to gauge the authenticity of literary dialects.

Sociolinguistics, Fall 2002; Winter 2003

• Developed a graduate seminar on theories and approaches to issues of variation and change in language, involving fieldwork contrasting speech communities in a single urbanized area.

Varieties of English, Fall 2001

• Graduate seminar on the development of language varieties generally, focusing on English. Students conducted research on the development of specific varieties using materials from preciously published studies, particularly linguistic atlases.

University of Maryland College Park, College Park, Maryland

Language and Mind, Spring 1993

• Graded papers and counseled students as a teaching assistant in an introductory course for linguistics majors. Delivered occasional lectures.

Syntax I, Fall 1993

• Graded papers and counseled students as a teaching assistant in a first-semester course in transformational and minimalist syntax. Delivered occasional lectures.

Professional service

Linguistic Society of America

Language in the School Curriculum Committee, Member, 2008 to present

• Conducted outreach to link the Linguistic Society of America with scholarly and professional associations that focus on K-12 education. (Term ends 2010.)

Undergraduate Program Advisory Committee, Member, 2005 to 2008

• Developed aids for faculty teaching undergraduate linguistics courses. Developed outlets for presentations of undergraduate research in linguistics. Improved internet-based resources for undergraduate students interested in linguistics.

Deseret Language and Linguistics Society

Executive Committee, Member, 2001 to 2003

• Conducted society business. Made recommendations for invited speakers for the annual Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium.

Program Committee, Member, 2000 to 2001

• Assisted in the setup and execution of the Deseret Language and Linguistics Society Symposium. Reviewed papers for the selected proceedings.

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

ChinaVine Steering Committee, Member, 2007 to 2009

• Assisted with design of website documenting traditional Chinese folk arts. Conducted fieldwork in China to document artists’ products and methods. Responsible for most of the editing for the site.

Cognitive Sciences Steering Committee, Member, 2003 to 2009

• Monitored progress of Cognitive Sciences graduate and undergraduate programs. Involved in planning for Cognitive Sciences PhD program proposal.

Graduate Studies Committee, Member, 2008 to 2009

• Assisted in charting policies for graduate studies in the University of Central Florida English Department. Reviewed applications for graduate admission.

Honors and Awards Committee, Member, 2004 to 2007; Chair, 2008 to 2009

• Administered the Department of English’s departmental scholarship and honors programs. Reviewed applications for departmental honors and scholarships.

Linguistics Committee, Chair, 2003 to 2009

• Administered the minor in Linguistics. Managed linguistics course offerings.

Undergraduate Advisor, 2003 to 2009

English Department Council, At-Large Member, 2006 to 2007

• Participated in decision-making relating to departmental policies and procedures. Assisted in decision-making regarding faculty and staff hiring.

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Linguistics Core Restructuring Committee, Member, 2002 to 2003

• Developed methods of eliminating overlap between core courses in major curricula administered by the Department of Linguistics and English Language. Presented recommendations for curriculum changes. Piloted restructured course (Language, Mind, and World).

ORCA Scholarship Review Committee, Member, 2002 to 2003

• Reviewed student applications for undergraduate research grants offered in university-wide competition. Issued recommendations for funding.

Travel Funding Committee, Member, 2002 to 2003

• Reviewed applications for funding for research-related travel by department faculty.

Undergraduate Advisor, 2000 to 2003

Other professional service

Anonymous reviewer

• American Speech
• Computers and the Humanities
• Language Variation and Change
• National Science Foundation
• NWAV

Conference session chair

• LSA, San Francisco, California, “Sociolinguistics: Vowels and sound change”, 2009
• NWAV 37, Houston, Texas, “Exemplar theory”, 2008
• GlobE 2006, Warsaw, Poland, “Language of the young”, 2006
• NWAV 33, Ann Arbor, Michigan, “New focuses on non-urban communities”, 2004
• NWAVE 32, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Developments in the South”, 2003

Community service

American Legion, Department of Florida, Orlando, Florida

Oratorical Contest Judge, 2008

• Judge for Florida state finals of the American Legion National High School Oratorical Contest.

Lakemont Elementary , Winter Park, Florida

School Advisory Committee, Chair, 2006 to 2009

• Headed committee made up of community representatives, teachers and administrators, and parents of students at Lakemont Elementary School. Acted as liaison between Parent-Teacher Association and School Advisory Committee. Developed plans to support educational attainment among economically disadvantaged and limited English students. (Term ends 2009.)

School Advisory Committee, Member, 2005 to 2006

• Developed plans to support the educational attainment of students at Lakemont Elementary School, focusing particularly on the needs of economically disadvantaged and limited English students.

Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office, Orlando, Florida

Precinct Clerk, 2006; 2008

• Volunteer nonpartisan worker in charge of operations at a voting site for general elections.

Ballot Issuer, 2004

• Volunteer nonpartisan worker at a voting site for primary and general elections.

Professional development

Conference workshops

NWAV 37, Houston, Texas

• Towards best practices in sociophonetics (2008): Workshop presented by Marianna Di Paolo and Malcah Yaeger-Dror on current methods in acoustic analysis of naturalistic recordings.

• Variation analysis: Everything you always wanted to know (2008): Workshop presented by Sali Tagliamonte and John Paolillo on methods of logistic regression.

NWAVE 32, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Praat and other software for acoustical analysis (2003): Workshop presented by Bartek Plichta on current methods in acoustic analysis.

Faculty Center Seminars

University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

• Classroom response systems (2007): Training workshop on new technologies for getting student feedback during classes.
• Incorporating story-telling and role-playing into the classroom (2007): Seminar on the development and administration of classroom simulation exercises.
• Scholarship of teaching and learning project designs (2006): Seminar on standards for research in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
• Collecting materials to demonstrate effective teaching and learning (2005): Seminar on measuring student learning and teaching effectiveness.
• Creating effective diagnostic assessments (2005): Seminar on focusing students on learning objectives and measuring student learning.
• Problems only a group can solve (2005): Seminar geared toward helping faculty members develop better group assignments.
• Grant writing for success (2004): Seminar offered to help faculty members learn how to write better grant proposals.
• Grant writing for success: matchmaking (2004): Seminar presented as a follow-up to the “Grant writing for success” seminar, designed to help faculty members identify funding agencies to submit grant proposals to.

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

• Publish, don't perish! (2002 to 2003): Seminar and workshop series to assist faculty members in developing strategies for more productive research.
• New faculty seminar (1999 to 2001): Two-year program designed to develop skills needed by faculty members in the spheres of teaching, research, and professional and community citizenship.

Other professional development

University of Central Florida Office of Course Development and Web Services, Orlando, Florida

• Interactive distributed learning for technology-mediated course delivery (2005): Intensive nine-week seminar on developing and delivering course content online.

University of Central Florida Office of Instructional Resources, Orlando, Florida

• Instructional television faculty workshop (2004): Seminar and workshop series on teaching classes remotely using live and prerecorded video.

Florida Humanities Council, St. Petersburg, Florida

• Grant-writing workshop (2005): Seminar presented by the Florida Humanities Council introducing the types of projects funded by that group.

Professional memberships

American Dialect Society

Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States

Linguistic Society of America

Languages

English: Native reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension ability

German: Strong reading, writing, speaking, and comprehension ability

Pennsylvania German: Moderate reading and spoken comprehension ability

French: Some reading ability