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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 as President of 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 ...