Sample Service

Professional Associations

Linguistic Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

International Phonetic Association

American Dialect Society

Profession

Expert witness, Missouri State Public Defender, Capital Litigation, reviewed dialect used in telephone calls relevant to State v. Terry Blair. (2007-2008)

Expert witness, Equal Employment and Opportunity Commission, Milwaukee, EEOC v. Target Corp. (employment discrimination). 2002-. Most recent ruling 7th Circuit Court of Appeals 04-3559, 8/23/06. Trial date, February, 2007.

Ad hoc reviewer for Journal of English Linguistics, Phonology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Cambridge University Press, Natural Languages and Linguistic Theory, Bedford/St. Martin's Press, Linguistic Inquiry squibs, Northeast Linguistic Society, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, and the Journal of Sociolinguistics.

U Wisc, University

Second Language Acquisition (SLA) Executive Committee. 2003-.

Faculty participant, Undergraduate Research Scholars program. 2002-2003.

U Wisc, Department

Chair, Phonetic Laboratory Committee, Department of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin. 2000 -.

Outreach

2007. Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes, Beaver Dam, Madison, Watertown. Sponsored by Wisconsin Humanities Council.

2007. Talkin’ with Phones: A Language Learner’s Phonetic Analysis Toolkit. World Languages Day, April 19, 2007

2006. Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes, Attic Angel Association, Madison, November 27, 2006.

2006. Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes Project, Milwaukee, Eau Claire, Madison.

2006. Guest, various news outlets related to Wisconsin Englishes Project (see Wisconsin Englishes web site)

2005. Guest, “Conversations with Joy Cardin”, Wisconsin Public Radio, March 14, 2005.

2002. Forces of nature and language globalization. International Learning Community, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 26, 2002.

1999. Sketch of the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary of African American Vernacular English. Midwest Ebonics Conversation conference, Edgewood College, March 6, 1999. (with Monica Macaulay and Susan Rusnick)