Projects by Current Department Members

Projects by current department members are listed below by year initiated.  To see your project included, please write to ireneyi [at] stanford.edu (Irene Yi) or yltan [at] stanford.edu (Yin Lin Tan).

RESEARCHER(S)LANGUAGEREGIONFOCUSFUNDINGYEAR(S)
Samba KanePulaarCiloñ, Senegal; CaliforniaRelativization, wh-movement, subject vs non-subject asymmetries, noun class verbal affixation 2024-present
Antón de la FuenteGalicianO Grove, SpainSociolinguistics 2023-present
Calico DucheneauxLakota LanguageCheyenne River Sioux TribeLanguage revitalization 2023-present
Evelyn Fernández-LizárragaEnglish, SpanishSan Diego, CA; Tijuana, MexicoConstructed dialogue and reported speech, language contact and bilingualismVPGE Diversity Dissertation Research Opportunity, NSF DDRI2023-present
Nandi SimsEnglishWashington, DCSociolinguistic variation, language change, gentrificationStanford University Humanities Seed Grant2023-present
Yin Lin TanSingapore EnglishSingaporeStyle and embodiment among dancersEast Asia Graduate Summer Grant2023-present
Jonathan WuWongEnglish, varieties of ChineseChinatown, Boston, MASociolinguistics 2023-present
Irene Yi, Yin Lin TanCantoneseSan Francisco, CA; SingaporeDiaspora community sound change, sociolinguisticsCantonese Summer Fellowship2023-present
Anissa ZaitsuAfrican American EnglishBay Area; Atlanta (conducted online)Grammatical features of negation and negative concordSchool of Humanities and Sciences Graduate Research Opportunity (GRO)2023-present
Alexia HernandezEnglishMiami, FLVariation among Cuban American speakers 2022
Jasper JianIgboMontreal, Canada (conducted online)Interrogatives, structure and organization of the left periphery 2022-present
Katherine JohnsonTirikiWestern Kenya (conducted online)Syntactic structure: hyperraising, subject-pronoun doubling, and clefts 2022-present
Sarang JeongKoreanSeoul, South KoreaSound change, laryngeal contrast 2021-present
Ariel ChanCantoneseCaliforniaSociolinguistic variationNSF2020-present
Nandi SimsEnglishSouth FloridaEthnographic study of variation, youth culture, contact-induced language changeNSF DDRI2019-present
Robert XuMandarinBeijingCharacterological figuresSCPKU Fellowship2019
Josh PhillipsYolŋu MathaNorthern AustraliaSemanticsNSF, Mellon Foundation2016-present
Rob Podesva, Jeremy Calder, Kate GeenbergEnglishRedding, CASociophonetic variation in a non-urban LGBT community 2011
Member list here.EnglishCaliforniaVoices of California is a Stanford project documenting language and life across California 2010-present
Vera GribanovaUzbekMoscow, Russia; Tashkent and Bukhara, Uzbekistan, SF Bay AreaPhonetic inventory, clause structure and morphology, ellipsis processes, copular clauses, clefts, nominalizations, relative clauses, case, agreement, embeddingHellman Junior Faculty Scholar Fund, Stanford2010-present
Paul KiparskyGreek dialectsKozani, Northern GreeceHistorical and comparative syntax of Greek dialects 2001
Penelope EckertEnglishSan Jose, CAEthnographic study of variation in preadolescenceSpencer Foundation1994-1996
Paul KiparskyEstonianSoutheastern EstoniaSeto phonologyNational Research Council Twinning Grant1992-1999, 2001
John RickfordBarbadian Creole, EnglishBarbados, West IndiesGrammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation 1990s
John RickfordJamaican CreoleKingston and St. Mary's, Jamaica, West IndiesGrammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation 1990s
Joan BresnanKichaga (Bantu)Tanzania, East AfricaComparative Bantu morphosyntaxNSF1986-1987
John RickfordHawaiian Creole, EnglishOahu, HawaiiGrammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation 1984
John RickfordAfrican American EnglishEast Palo Alto, CASociolinguistic variation 1980s-present
John RickfordGullah, African American EnglishSea Islands, off the coast of S. Carolina & GeorgiaGrammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation 1980s
Penelope EckertEnglishDetroit, MIEthnographic study of variation and the adolescent social orderNSF1980-1982
John RickfordGuyanese CreoleCane Walk, Guyana, West IndiesGrammatical features in creoles, sociolinguistic variation 1976-1978, 1980s
Penelope EckertGasconAriege, FrancePhonological variation and changeNSF1970-present

 

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