James N. Stanford

Selected Publications

• "Structure, chronology, and local social meaning of a supra-local vowel shift: Emergence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) in New England," with Monica Nesbitt. 2021. Language Variation and Change. link

• "A modern update on New England dialectology: Introducing the Dartmouth New England English Database" (DNEED). 2020. American Speech. Advance Publication: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8662137

• New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology. 2019. Oxford University Press. link

• "Environmental change and sustainability of indigenous languages of northern Alaska," with Nicholas Reo, Sigvanna Meghan Topkok, Nicole Kanayurak, David Peterson, Lindsay Whaley (2019), Arctic 73(2):216-28. link

• "Bring on the crowd! Using online audio crowdsourcing for large-scale New England dialectology and acoustic sociophonetics," with Chaeyoon Kim, Sravana Reddy, Ezra Wyschogrod & Jack Grieve (2019), American Speech 94(2):151-94. link

• "Variation and change in the tonal space of Yangliu Lalo, an endangered language of Yunnan, China," with Cathryn Yang, Yang Liu, Jingjin Jiang & Luifang Tang (2019), Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42(1):2-37. link

• "A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China)," with Katia Chirkova and Dehe Wang (2018), Language Variation and Change 30(1):109-45. link

• Language Regard: Methods, Variation, and Change, Betsy Evans, Erica Benson & James Stanford (eds) (2018), Cambridge University Press. link

• "Language regard in liminal Hmong American speech communities," with Rika Ito & Faith Nibbs (2018), in Betsy Evans, Erica Benson & James Stanford (eds), Language Regard: Methods, Variation, and Change, Cambridge University Press. 197-217.

• "Documenting sociolinguistic variation in indigenous communities," with John Mansfield (2017), Language Documentation and Conservation, Special Publication No. 13, pp. 116-36 (Hildebrandt, Jany, Silva eds).

• "A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non-English contexts." Journal of Sociolinguistics (2016) 20:4, 525-41, special issue commemorating 50 years since Labov (1966). link

• "What is linguistics?" (2017) In Daniel Rockmore (ed), What are the Arts and Sciences? Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. 204-19.

• With Kalina Newmark and Nacole Walker. "The rez accent knows no borders": Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody. Language in Society (2016) 45(5):633-664. link

• "Sociotonetics using connected speech: A study of Sui tone variation in free-speech style," Asia-Pacific Language Variation 2:1 (2016) 48-81. link

• With Miriam Meyerhoff, "The changing face of sociolinguistics with a global perspective." Invited introduction chapter in Globalising sociolinguistics, Dick Smakman & Patrick Heinrich (eds). Routledge Press, (2015) 1-15.

• "Toward completely automated vowel extraction: Introducing DARLA," Linguistics Vanguard, DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2015-0002, with Sravana Reddy, (2015).
  See also our website for DARLA (Dartmouth Linguistic Automation).

• "A sociotonetic study of Lalo tone split in progress," Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:1, with Cathryn Yang and Zhengyu Yang, (2015) 52-77. link

• "A Web application for automated dialect analysis." Proceedings of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics 2015 Conference (NAACL-HLT 2015), with Sravana Reddy, 71-75.

• "Language acquisition and language change," in Claire Bowern & Bethwyn Evans (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Routledge Press, (2014) 466-83.

• "Multiple vectors of unidirectional dialect change in Eastern New England," Language Variation and Change 26:1, with Nathan Severance and Kenneth Baclawski, Jr. (2014) 103-140. link

• "The sociolinguistics of exogamy: Dialect acquisition in a Zhuang village," Journal of Sociolinguistics 17:5, with Yanhong Pan (2013) 573-607. link

• “Revisiting transmission and diffusion: An agent-based model of vowel chain shifts across large communities," Language Variation and Change 25(2), with Laurence A. Kenny, (2013) 119-153. link

• “One size fits all? Dialectometry in a small clan-based indigenous society,” Language Variation and Change 24:2 (2012) 247-78. link

• “Farewell to the founders: Major dialect changes along the East-West New England border,” American Speech 87(2), with Thomas Leddy-Cecere and Kenneth Baclawski, (2012) 126-69. link

• “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, with Jonathan P. Evans, (2012) 79-100. link

• “A 50-year comparison of regional dialect variation in the Sui language,” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4:2 (2011) 120-43. link

• “Gender, generations, and nations: An experiment in Hmong American discourse and sociophonetics,” Language and Communication 30:4 (2010) 285-96. link

• “The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation: Two Hmong dialects in Texas,” Journal of Sociolinguistics 14:1 (2010) 89-115. link

• "The sustainability of languages," International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability 6(3), with Lindsay Whaley, (2010) 87-101. link

• “‘Eating the food of our place’: Sociolinguistic loyalties in multidialectal Sui villages,” Language in Society 38:3 (2009) 287-309. link

• Variation in indigenous minority languages, with Dennis R. Preston (eds) (2009). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins. link

• “A sociotonetic analysis of Sui dialect contact,” Language Variation and Change 20:3 (2008) 409-450. link

• “Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence,” Journal of Sociolinguistics 12:5 (2008) 567-596. link

• "Sui adjective reduplication as poetic morpho-phonology," Journal of East Asian Linguistics 16:2 (2007) 87-111. link

• "Lexicon and description of Sui adjective intensifiers," Linguistic Discovery 5:1 (2007) 1-27. link