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James N. Stanford, Ph.D. Professor and Chair Department of Linguistics Dartmouth College Office and Postal Address: Contact: Department of Linguistics [email protected] HB 6220 - Anon. Hall room 218 (603)646-0099 Dartmouth College Hanover, NH 03755 ACADEMIC POSITIONS July 2019 to present: Chair of Dartmouth Department of Linguistics July 2020 to present: Professor of Linguistics, Dartmouth Editorial positions: Editorial Board, Language Variation and Change, 2015-present Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 2015-present Editorial Team, Frontiers: Computational Sociolinguistics, 2018-present Editorial Advisory Committee, American Speech, 2018-2020 July 2014 to June 2020: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dartmouth Winter 2013: Acting Chair of the Dartmouth Linguistics and Cognitive Science Program July 2008 to June 2014: Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Dartmouth Fall 2007-Spring 2008: Lecturer, Rice University Linguistics Department AWARDS AND FUNDING Dartmouth Dean of the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentoring and Advising (2020) Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement (2014) PI, Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award, Dartmouth College, $40,000 (2018-2020) Sociolinguistic exploration of a matrilineal/matrilocal society in rural southwest China PI, National Science Foundation grant with Kalina Newmark '11 and Nacole Walker '11 English dialect features of indigenous people in North America: A cross-continental investigation (2013-16), $87,679 1 PI, Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award, Dartmouth College, $20,000 Urban dialectology in Boston (2015-17) PI, Neukom Institute CompX Grant with Sravana Reddy, $20,000 Toward completely automated vowel extraction (2015-16) Co-PI, Porter Foundation Faculty Research Grant, $50,000 with Lindsay Whaley, David Peterson, Meghan Topkok, Nicole Kanayurak, Nick Reo Sustainable communities in the Arctic: The land-language link (2013-16) Lucas Family Foundation, Dartmouth Undergraduate Research Office: $1500 for faculty/student collaborative field research during Linguistics 80 (spring 2019) Neukom Institute: Conference/travel funding for NWAV-47, New York City, $1000 Dartmouth College Dean of the Faculty Mentoring Award, 2016-17, $1000 Dartmouth College Senior Faculty Grant, Fall 2016 John Sloan Dickey Center and Dartmouth Provost Office Faculty Research International Travel: Summer research in rural China, $3110 (2016) The David Bloom and Leslie Chao Fellowship, Dartmouth College (2014-15), $2000 Co-PI, Neukom Institute CompX Grant with Lindsay Whaley, $20,000 Agent-based modeling of sociolinguistic contact in an emergent system (2011-12) Lucas Family Foundation, Dartmouth Undergraduate Research Office: $1000 for faculty/student collaborative field research during Linguistics 80 (spring 2014) Neukom Institute: Conference/travel funding for NWAV-Asia/Pacific-3, New Zealand (2014) Travel funding for Foundations of Historical Linguistics, Boston (2013) Audrey Duckert Memorial Travel Award for the 2012 American Dialect Society meeting The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding (Summer 2012, research trip) Dartmouth College Junior Faculty Fellowship (Winter 2012) The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding (Summer 2010, research trip) William and Constance Burke Research Initiation Award, Dartmouth College (2008-2014) University Distinguished Fellowship, Michigan State University (2003-2007) Wilkins-Rodman Award in Linguistics (best paper), Michigan State University (2007) Graduate Merit Fellowship, College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University (2006) Linguistic Society of America: funding for the LSA Summer Meeting (2006) Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award at the Third Workshop on Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-3), Harvard University (2005) Michigan State University Department of Linguistics and Languages: funding for New Ways of Analyzing Variation-34 (2005) Michigan State University Graduate School and Department of Linguistics and Languages: funding for Theoretical East Asian Linguistics (TEAL-3) (2005) Departmental fellowship for summer research in China, Michigan State University Department of Linguistics and Languages (2005) National Merit Finalist (1986) EDUCATION Fall 2003-Summer 2007 University Distinguished Fellow, Michigan State University Ph.D. in Linguistics, July 2007 (Adviser: Dennis Preston) Dissertation title: Dialect Contact and Identity: A Case Study of Exogamous Sui Clans 2 1999-2003 – Sui language study and research Qiannan Minority Teachers College, Guizhou Province, China 1995-1999 – Chinese language study Central University for Minorities, Beijing, China Northern Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Nankai University, Tianjin, China 1986-1990 Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan • Bachelor of Science: Physics PUBLICATIONS Books Stanford, James (2019). New England English: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology. New York: Oxford University Press. 367 pages. Evans, Betsy, Erica Benson, and James Stanford (eds) (2018). Language Regard: Methods, Variation, and Change. New York: Cambridge University Press. 304 pages. Stanford, James, and Dennis Preston (eds) (2009). Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins [IMPACT 25, Studies in Language and Society]. 519 pages. Reviews: Language in Society 39(3):429-30; Journal of Sociolinguistics 16(1):135-39; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 22(3):241-43. Articles and Chapters Stanford, James (in prep). Sociotonetics. Invited chapter for Routledge Handbook of Sociophonetics, Christopher Strelluf (ed). Routledge Press. Stanford, James (in prep). Sui and related language contact in China. Invited chapter for Language Contact: An International Handbook, Vol. 2, Eds. Darquennes, Salmons & Vandenbussche. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton (HSK series). Coto-Solano, Rolando, and James Stanford (in prep). Automated vowel analysis for variationist research. Invited article for Language and Linguistics Compass. Stanford, James, and Jack Grieve (in prep). Let's make some noise! Using large-scale data sources for North American dialect research. Invited chapter in Needed Research in North American Dialects, Erica Benson & Robert Bayley (eds). Publications of the American Dialect Society. Stanford, James, and Samantha Wray (in prep). Revised version of "Language acquisition and language change." Invited chapter in Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Historical Linguistics, 2nd edition. Routledge Press. Stanford, James (in prep). The roots of New England English. Invited chapter in Natalie Schilling, Derek Denis, and Raymond Hickey (eds) The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. V, North America and the Caribbean. Cambridge University Press. Nagy, Naomi, Holman Tse, and James Stanford (under review). Cantonese tone mergers in spontaneous speech. Studies on the Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages (Rajiv Rao, ed). Cambridge University Press. [peer reviewed] 3 Yang, Cathryn, and James Stanford (under review). Variation and change in tone. Invited chapter in Yoshiyuki Asahi, Alexandra D’Arcy, Paul Kerswill (eds), Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics. Routledge Press. Coto-Solano, Rolando, James Stanford, and Sravana Reddy (forthcoming). Advances in completely automated vowel analysis for sociophonetics: Using end-to-end speech recognition systems with DARLA. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Computational Sociolinguistics, Jack Grieve et al. (eds). Nesbitt, Monica, and James Stanford (forthcoming). New England English. Invited article for The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of World Englishes, Kingsley Bolton et al. (eds). Nesbitt, Monica, and James Stanford (forthcoming). Structure, chronology, and local social meaning of a supra-local vowel shift: Emergence of the Low-Back Merger Shift in New England. Language Variation and Change. [peer reviewed] Yang, Cathryn, Naluo Zhang, Chunxia Luo, James Stanford (forthcoming). Generational sound change in the low tones of Black Lahu. Linguistics Vanguard special issue: Sound change in endangered and small speech communities (Georgia Zellou and Alan Yu, eds). [peer reviewed] Stanford, James (2020). A modern update on New England dialectology: Introducing the Dartmouth New England English Database (DNEED). American Speech. Advance Publication Online June 2020. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8662137 Reo, Nicholas, Sigvanna Meghan Topkok, Nicole Kanayurak, James N. Stanford, David A. Peterson, and Lindsay J. Whaley (2019). Environmental change and sustainability of indigenous languages of northern Alaska. Arctic 72(3):216-28. [peer reviewed] Yang, Cathryn, James Stanford, Yang Liu, Jingjin Jiang, and Luifang Tang (2019). Variation and change in the tonal space of Yangliu Lalo, an endangered language of Yunnan, China. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 42(1):2-37. [peer reviewed] Kim, Chaeyoon, Sravana Reddy, James Stanford, Ezra Wyschogrod, and Jack Grieve (2019). Bring on the crowd! Using online audio crowdsourcing for large-scale New England dialectology and acoustic sociophonetics. American Speech 94(2):151-194. [peer reviewed] Chirkova, Katia, James Stanford, and Dehe Wang (2018). A long way from New York City: Socially stratified contact-induced phonological convergence in Ganluo Ersu (Sichuan, China). Language Variation and Change 30(1):109-45. [peer reviewed] Stanford, James, Shuqi Wei, and Li Lu (2018). Ecologies of Sui sociolinguistics: