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 in Progress:
With Dennis Preston (eds.). Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins ("Impact" series).
Articles:
(To appear) A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact. Language Variation and Change 20(3).
(To appear) Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence. Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(5).
(To appear) Clan as a sociolinguistic variable. In James Stanford & Dennis Preston (eds.), Variation in indigenous minority languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
(To appear) 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: Benjamins.
(2007) Sui adjective reduplication as poetic morpho-phonology. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16(2):87-111.
(2007) Lexicon and description of Sui adjective intensifiers. Linguistic Discovery 5(1):1-27.
(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.
(2004) Shuiyuzhong xingrongcide teding houzhui diaocha [Study of Sui word-specific adjective intensifiers]. Qiannan Minzu 33: 34-39. Duyun, China: Qiannan Minzu Yanjiusuo.
