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James N. Stanford

James StanfordAssistant Professor, Ph.D. (Linguistics)
Michigan State University, 2007
305 Reed Hall
(603) 646-0099
E-mail: James.N.Stanford@Dartmouth.edu

Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
6220 Reed Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Please see my homepage for more information.

Research Interests

Sociolinguistics of less commonly studied languages, language variation and change, dialects, language and identity, tone, linguistic contact, sociophonetics, sociotonetics, clan-based societies (exogamy, dialect contact), Sui (China) and other Tai-Kadai languages, Hmong communities in the U.S., computational modeling of language variation and change

Recent Publications

Books

  • With Dennis Preston, eds. 2009: Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins (Impact series). Link to book information

Articles

  • 2012: One size fits all? Dialectometry in a small clan-based indigenous society. Language Variation and Change 24(2): 247-278. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2012: With Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Kenneth Baclawski. Farewell to the founders: Major dialect changes along the East-West New England border. American Speech 87(2):126-69. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2012: With Jonathan P. Evans. The influence of Mandarin Chinese on minority languages in rural southwest China: A sociolinguistic study of tones in contact. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 215:79-100. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2011: A 50-year comparison of regional dialect variation in the Sui language. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4(2):120-43.
  • 2010: Gender, generations, and nations: An experiment in Hmong American discourse and sociophonetics. Language and Communication 30(4):285-96. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2010: With Lindsay Whaley. The sustainability of languages. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 6(3):111-22
  • 2010: The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation: Two Hmong dialects in Texas. Journal of Sociolinguistics 14(1):89-115. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2009: "Eating the food of our place": Socio-linguistic loyalties in multi-dialectal Sui villages. Language in Society 38(3):287-309. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2009: Clan as a sociolinguistic variable. In James Stanford & Dennis Preston (eds.), Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. Link to abstract
  • 2009: With Dennis Preston. The lure of a distant horizon: Variation in indigenous minority languages. In James Stanford & Dennis Preston (eds.), Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins
  • 2008: Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(5):567-96. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2008: A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact. Language Variation and Change 20(3):409-50. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2007: Sui adjective reduplication as poetic morpho-phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16(2):87-111. Link to abstract/download article
  • 2007: Lexicon and description of Sui adjective intensifiers. Linguistic Discovery 5(1):1-27. Link to article

Last Updated: 8/22/12