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I'm part of 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 with the public and trying to integrate all those things into a coherent whole. I co-founded and still work with the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, which includes the Wisconsin Languages Project. I have the honor of serving as Vice President and President Elect of the American Dialect Society.

I'm finishing up a book called Dialect for Oxford University Press right now. The second volume of a giant handbook on language contact for Mouton de Gruyter is in production, edited by Jeroen Darquennes, Wim Vandenbussche and me. Most of my publications and works under review are available on request. … more ...