James N. Stanford, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics Dartmouth College Office and Postal Address: Contact: Dartmouth Linguistics [email protected] HB 6220 - Dana Hall room 218 (603)646-0099 Hanover, NH 03755 ACADEMIC POSITIONS July 2019 to present: Chair of Dartmouth Linguistics July 2014 to present: Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dartmouth Current editorial positions: Editorial Board, Language Variation and Change Editorial Advisory Committee, American Speech Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Language Variation Editorial team for Frontiers volume on Computational Sociolinguistics 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 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 #BCS1251324 with Kalina Newmark and Nacole Walker English dialect features of indigenous people in North America: A cross-continental investigation (2013-16), $87,679 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) 1 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) Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, $3000 Dartmouth College (2014) 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 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 2 1986-1990 Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan • Bachelor of Science: Physics PUBLICATIONS Books Stanford, James, and Maya Ravindranath Abtahian (contracted). Understanding sociolinguistics: A cross-linguistic perspective. Routledge Understanding Language series, edited by Bernard Comrie & Greville Corbett. Routledge Press. Stanford, James (2019). New England English: Large-scale acoustic sociophonetics and dialectology. New York: Oxford University Press. 351 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, and Cathryn Yang (in prep). Variation and change in tone. Invited chapter in Yoshiyuki Asahi, Alexandra D’Arcy, Paul Kerswill (eds), Handbook of variationist sociolinguistics. 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. Stanford, James (accepted). A modern update on New England dialectology: Introducing the Dartmouth New England English Database (DNEED). American Speech. 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: A language permeated with rural social structures. Invited chapter in Christine Mallinson and Elizabeth Seale (eds), Rural voices: Language, identity, and social change across place. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press. 91-103. 3 Browne, Charlene, and James Stanford (2018). Boston dialect features in the Black/African American community. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 24.2, Selected papers from NWAV 46. Stanford, James, Rika Ito, and Faith Nibbs (2018). Language regard in liminal Hmong American speech communities. In Betsy Evans, Erica Benson & James Stanford (eds), Language regard: Methods, variation and change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 197- 217. Mansfield, John, and James Stanford (2017). Documenting sociolinguistic variation in indigenous communities: Practical methods and solutions. Language Documentation and Conservation, Special Publication No. 13, pp. 116-36. [peer reviewed] Stanford, James (2017). What is linguistics? Invited chapter in Daniel Rockmore (ed) What are the arts and sciences? Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. 204-19. Stanford, James (2017). Invited book review of Grammatical variation in British English dialects: A study of corpus-based dialectometry by Benedict Szmrecsanyi, Cambridge University Press, 2013. English Language and Linguistics 22(1):183-91. Newmark, Kalina, Nacole Walker, and James Stanford (2016). “The rez accent knows no borders”: Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody. Language in Society 45(5):633-64. [peer reviewed] Stanford, James (2016a). A call for more diverse sources of data: Variationist approaches in non-English contexts. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20(4):525-41, special issue commemorating 50 years since Labov (1966). [peer reviewed] Stanford, James (2016b). Sociotonetics using connected speech: A study of Sui tone variation in free-speech style. Asia-Pacific Language Variation 2(1):48-81. [peer reviewed] Newmark, Kalina, James Stanford, and Nacole Walker (2016). English and Aboriginal ethnic identity. Invited article for Town Crier/Puritan Literary Magazine (online Canadian magazine). Reddy, Sravana, and James Stanford (2015). Toward completely automated vowel extraction: Introducing DARLA. Linguistics Vanguard 1(1):15-28.