Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science
6220 Reed Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
(603) 646-0099
Email: James.N.Stanford@dartmouth.edu
Office: 305 Reed Hall
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (Linguistics) Michigan State University, 2007
Please see my homepage for more information.
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.
Book:
With Dennis Preston, eds. (2009) Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins (Impact series). Link to book information
Articles:
(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.
(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
(2006) When your mother tongue is not your mother’s tongue: Linguistic reflexes of Sui exogamy. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 12.2: Selected Papers from NWAV-34. 217-229.
