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Lauren Hall-Lew Lauren Hall-Lew Linguistics & English Language http://LaurenHall-Lew.com The University of Edinburgh [email protected] Dugald Stewart Building [wk] (+44/0) 131 651–1836 3 Charles Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AD United Kingdom EMPLOYMENT 2017– Reader, Linguistics and English Language School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh 2010–2017 Lecturer, Linguistics and English Language School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh 2009–2010 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociolinguistics Faculty of English Language and Literature (ELL) Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (LPP) University of Oxford 2009–2010 Early Career Development Research Fellow Wolfson College, University of Oxford 2009 Teaching Fellow, Department of Linguistics Stanford University 2008 Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching and Learning Stanford University Additional Affiliations 2017 Sabbatical Fellow Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Oxford Personal Leave 2018 Adoption Leave (March–July) 2014 Adoption Leave (March–April) Lauren Hall-Lew Curriculum Vitae, Monday 16th July, 2018 2 EDUCATION 2009 PhD in Linguistics Dissertation: “Ethnicity and Phonetic Variation in San Francisco English” Co-Advisors – Penelope Eckert & John R. Rickford Readers – Miyako Inoue & Meghan Sumner External Reader – Ray McDermott Stanford University 2006 MA in Linguistics Stanford University 2002 BA in Linguistics (summa cum laude) University of Arizona Additional Coursework 2007 LSA Linguistic Institute Stanford University 2006 Summer Cooperative African Languages Institute (SCALI) Indiana University 2001 Study Abroad, Kunming, People’s Republic of China School for International Training & Yunnan Normal University 2000 Study Abroad, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany Goethe Institut GRANTS 2015 Research Grant, PPLS Pilot Scheme, The University of Edinburgh (£1341.90) 2015 PPLS Teaching and Learning Initiative (TLI) Fund, The University of Edinburgh (£1600) 2014 (Co-I, James Kirby PI) Carnegie Research Incentive Grant, The Carnegie Trust (£1366) 2014 PPLS Teaching and Learning Initiative (TLI) Fund, The University of Edinburgh (£1260) 2013 British Academy Small Grant, funded by Leverhulme; reference no. SG130396 (£9634) 2013 Innovation Initiative Grant, The University of Edinburgh Development Trust (£2501.50) 2012 RSE (Royal Society of Edinburgh) Arts & Humanities Small Grant, project ID GR001185 (£2018) 2011 Research Grant, PPLS Pilot Scheme, The University of Edinburgh (£1278) 2011 Overseas Conference Grant, British Academy (£600) 2007 Graduate Research Opportunity, grant for PhD research, Stanford University ($1551) 2006 Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS), grant for language study, Stanford University 2004 Travel Grant, LSA Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics 2002 Travel Grant, Women in Science and Engineering, University of Arizona 2001 Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Arizona 2000 Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Arizona Lauren Hall-Lew Curriculum Vitae, Monday 16th July, 2018 3 HONOURS & AWARDS 2016 Joint Runner-up: College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Staff Recognition Awards 2016, ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Student Experience’. The University of Edinburgh 2013 Winner: EUSA Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Edinburgh 2011-2016 Nominations: EUSA Teaching Award, The University of Edinburgh 2009 Centennial Teaching Assistant, Stanford University 2003-2008 Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University 2002 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Arizona 2002 Asian Pacific American Outstanding Graduating Senior 2001 Presidential Honorary Member, American Dialect Society 2001 Boren Scholar, National Security Education Program 1998 Flinn Scholar, The Flinn Foundation 1998 President’s Award for Excellence, University of Arizona PUBLICATIONS – Books & Edited Volumes 2014 Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror, eds. Special Issue: “New Perspectives on Linguistic Vari- ation and Ethnic Identity in North America.” Language and Communication 35(1). 2010 Adams Bodomo, Charles Marfo and Lauren Hall-Lew. Let’s Speak Twi: A Proficiency Course in Akan Language and Culture. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. PUBLICATIONS – Articles to appear Stephens, Nola, Lauren Hall-Lew and Vickie Shamp Ellis. ‘I’m like, “Really? You were home- schooled?”: Quotative variation by high school type and linguistic style’. American Speech. 2018 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Bartlomiej Plichta. Technological Challenges in Sociolinguistic Data Collection. In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, and Gerard Van Herk (eds.) Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, 2nd Edition, pp131-133. London and New York: Routledge. (Book website: http://sociolinguisticdatacollection.com/) 2017 Hall-Lew, Lauren, Mirjam Eiswirth, Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson, and William Cotter. Northern Ari- zona Vowels. In Valerie Fridland, Alicia Wassink, Tyler Kendall and Betsy E. Evans, eds. Speech in the Western States, Volume 2: The Mountain West, pp59-82. Publication of the American Dialect Society 102, Supplement to American Speech, Volume 92. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. https://read.dukeupress.edu/pads/article-abstract/102/1/59/133498 2017 Hall-Lew, Lauren, Ruth Friskney, and James M. Scobbie. Accommodation or political identity: Scot- tish members of the UK Parliament. Language Variation and Change. 29(3): 341–363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394517000175 2017 Dickson, Victoria and Lauren Hall-Lew. Class, Gender and Rhoticity: The Social Stratification of Non-prevocalic /r/ in Edinburgh Speech. Journal of English Linguistics 45(3): 229259. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0075424217718024. 2017 Hall-Lew, Lauren. English in North America. In Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma, eds. The Handbook of World Englishes, pp. 371-387. Oxford: Oxford University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.006. 2016 Cardoso, Amanda, Hall-Lew, Lauren, Yova Kemenchedjieva, and Ruaridh Purse. 2016. Between California and the Pacific Northwest: The Front Lax Vowels in San Francisco English. In Valerie Fridland, Betsy Evans, Tyler Kendall, and Alicia Wassink, eds. Speech in the Western States, Volume 1: The Coastal States, pp. 33-54. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3772890 Lauren Hall-Lew Curriculum Vitae, Monday 16th July, 2018 4 2015 Hall-Lew, Lauren, Amie Fairs, and Alan A. Lew. Tourists Attitudes towards Linguistic Variation in Scotland. In Eivind Torgersen, Stian Hrstad, Brit Mhlum and Unn Ryneland (eds.), Language vari- ation - European Perspectives V, Studies in Language Variation (SILV) series, pp99-110. Amsterdam & Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2014 Hall-Lew, Lauren. Chinese Social Practice and San Franciscan Authenticity. In Lacoste, V., Leimgru- ber, J., Breyer, T. (eds.), Indexing Authenticity: Sociolinguistic Perspectives, pp55-77. FRIAS Linguae & Litterae series. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2014 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Amy Wong. Chinese. In Marianna Di Paolo and Arthur K. Spears, eds., Lan- guages and Dialects in the U.S.: Focus on Diverse Speech Communities, pp 163-179. London: Routledge. 2014 Hall-Lew, Lauren A. and Alan A. Lew. Speaking Heritage: Language, Identity and Tourism. In A.A. Lew, C.M. Hall and A.M. Williams, eds., The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Tourism, 2nd edn, pp 336-348. Oxford: Blackwell. 2014 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Amy Wong. Coding for demographic categories in the creation of legacy cor- pora: Asian American ethnic identities. Language & Linguistics Compass. 8(11): 564-576. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12117 2014 Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror. New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic iden- tity in North America. In Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror, eds., Special Issue: “New Per- spectives on Linguistic Variation and Ethnic Identity in North America.” Language and Communication 35(1): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.11.001 2014 Wong, Amy Wing-mei and Lauren Hall-Lew. Regional Variability and Ethnic Identity: Chinese Americans in New York City and San Francisco. In Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah Yaeger-Dror, eds., Special Issue: “New Perspectives on Linguistic Variation and Ethnic Identity in North America.” Lan- guage and Communication 35(1): 27-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2013.11.003 2013 Hall-Lew, Lauren. ‘Flip-flop’ and mergers-in-progress. In Lynn Clark, Kevin Watson, and Warren Maguire, eds., Special Issue: “Mergers in English: perspectives from phonology, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.” English Language and Linguistics 17(2): 359-390. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674313000063 2013 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Bartlomiej Plichta. Technological Challenges in Sociolinguistic Data Collection. In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs, and Gerard Van Herk (eds.) Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, pp 127-130. London and New York: Routledge. 2012 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Nola Stephens. Country Talk. Journal of English Linguistics. 40(3): 256-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424211420568 2012 Hall-Lew, Lauren and Sonya Fix. Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data. Lingua. 122(7): 794-809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2011.12.005 2012 Hall-Lew, Lauren, Rebecca L. Starr and Elizabeth Coppock. Style-Shifting in the U.S. Congress: The vowels of “Iraq(i)”. In Juan
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