tyler kendall, phd

research interests

computational & variationist sociolinguistics | quantitative & forensic discourse analysis | sociophonetics & forensic phonetics | digital humanities

select publications & papers

• forthcoming 2009, with Walt Wolfram. Local and external standards in African American English. Journal of English Linguistics. [ PrePrint ]
• forthcoming, with Christine Mallinson. "The way I can speak for myself": The social and linguistic context of counseling interviews with African American adolescent girls in Washington, DC.
• 2008. On the history and future of sociolinguistic data. Language and Linguistics Compass, 2.2: 332-351.
• 2007. Listening to silence: Interpretation and transcription of pause in deposition. In M. T. Turell, M. Spassova, and J. Cicres (eds.), Proceedings of the Second European IAFL Conference on Forensic Linguistics / Language and the Law: 323-332. Barcelona, IULA, Documenta Universitaria.
• 2007. Enhancing sociolinguistic data collections: The North Carolina Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: 15-26. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
• 2007. "The people what makes the town": The semiotics of home and town spaces in Princeville, NC. The North Carolina Folklore Journal 54.1: 33-53.

[ See my CV for a complete list of my publications. See the SLAAP Papers page for links/handouts/pdfs of various SLAAP-related papers and talks. ]

courses taught

Applications in Corpus and Computational Linguistics (Duke Univ. Spring 2008) | Introduction to Linguistics (NC State Univ. Spring 2007; Duke Univ. Fall 2006) | Variety in Language (Duke Univ. Spring 2006) | Continuing Old English (Duke Univ. Spring 2005)

linguistic software

• The Sociolinguistic Archive and Analysis Project (SLAAP)
• NORM: The Vowel Normalization and Plotting Suite (with Erik Thomas)
  
  & Vowels: Vowel Manipulation, Normalization, and Plotting in the R language
• Web-based, audio-supporting survey tool (in progress)
• A script to convert Praat TextGrid transcripts to readable text
• A script to convert Transcriber transcripts to Praat TextGrids