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I'm a faculty member in Language Sciences at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I work on language broadly, especially speech sounds and language change. This includes teaching, research and collaboration. I strive to integrate all those things into a coherent whole. I have the honor of serving as President of the American Dialect Society and Secretary of Section Z, Linguistics and Language Science, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and on the Board of Wisconsin Humanities. I co-founded and still work with the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.

I've just finished a book called Dialect. Most of my publications and works under review are available on request. … more ...