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Department of English
The Raleigh Language Project

Recent Publications

Books

  • 2020. Dodsworth, Robin and Richard Benton. Language variation and change in social networks: A bipartite approach. Routledge.
  • 2011. Michnowicz, Jim and Robin Dodsworth (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

Articles

  • Dodsworth, Robin and Tyler Kendall. Forthcoming. Asset storage and organization. Forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Research Methods in Sociophonetics.
  • 2025. Dodsworth, Robin and Jeff Mielke. /t d/ releases are strengthening among White speakers: Evidence from a large-scale acoustic study of English in Raleigh. Language Variation and Change1:30.
  • 2025. Hummel, J. R., Holley, J., & Dodsworth, R. Conceptualizing and Coding Social Class in Linguistic Corpora. Dimensions of Linguistic Variation, 232.
  • 2024. Tanner, James, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, Tyler Kendall, Jeff Mielke, Robin Dodsworth, Erik Thomas. Exploring the anatomy of articulation rate in spontaneous English speech: Relationships between utterance length effects and social factors. Proceedings of Interspeech 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06732
  • 2023. Dodsworth, Robin, Mary Kohn and Jonathan Owens. Language stability II: Watching paint dry: Metrics for measuring language stability. Chapter 11 in Owens, Arabic and the case against linearity in historical linguistics. Oxford University Press. 303-338.
  • 2022. Dodsworth, Robin. Don’s contribution to Sociolinguistics. In Migge & Gooden (eds.), Social and structural aspects of language contact and change. Language Science Press.
  • 2021. Dodsworth, Robin and Mary Kohn. Supraregional changes are uncorrelated: A community comparison. American Speech 106: 125-146.
  • 2021. Forrest, Jon, Steve McDonald, and Robin Dodsworth. Linguistic employment niches: Southern dialect across industries. Socius. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2378023121999161
  • 2020. Dodsworth, Robin, Jon Forrest and Mary Kohn. Network characteristics of American Raising. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol26/iss2/9/
  • 2020. Sharma, Devyani and Robin Dodsworth. Language variation and social networks. Annual Review of Linguistics.
  • 2019. Dodsworth, Robin. Bipartite network structures and individual differences in sound change. Glossa 4(1).
  • 2018. Dodsworth, Robin. Community detection and the reversal of the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh. Language Variety in the New South (Reaser, Wilbanks, Wojcik & Wolfram, eds). UNC Press.
  • 2017. Dodsworth, Robin and Richard Benton. Social network cohesion and the retreat from Southern vowels in Raleigh. Language in Society 46: 371-405.
  • 2017. Owens, Jonathan and Robin Dodsworth. Semantic mapping: What happens to idioms in discourse. Linguistics 55: 641-682.
  • 2017. Dinkin, Aaron and Robin Dodsworth. Gradience, allophony, and chain shifts. Language Variation and Change 29: 101-127.
  • 2017. Dodsworth, Robin. Migration and dialect contact. Annual Review of Linguistics 3: 331-346.
  • 2016. Carignan, Christopher, Jeff Mielke, and Robin Dodsworth. Tongue trajectories in North American English short-a tensing. In Marie-Hélène Coté, Remco Knooihuizen, and John Nerbonne, editors, The Future of Dialects, pages 313–319, Language Science Press, Berlin.
  • 2016. Forrest, Jon and Robin Dodsworth. Towards a sociologically grounded view of occupation in sociolinguistics. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 22.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 44.
  • 2014. Dodsworth, Robin. Community network structure and the reversal of Southern vowels in Raleigh, NC. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 20.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 42.
  • 2013.  Dodsworth, Robin. Speech communities, social networks, and communities of practice. In Janet Holmes and Kirk Hazen (eds.), Research Methods in Sociolinguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. 262-275.
  • 2013. Owens, Jonathan, Robin Dodsworth, and Mary Kohn. Subject expression and discourse embeddedness in Emirati Arabic. Language Variation and Change 25.
  • 2013. Dodsworth, Robin. Retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift in Raleigh, NC: Social factors. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 41, 19.2.
  • 2013. Dodsworth, Robin and Mary Kohn. Dialect reallocation in Southern U.S. English. M. Putz, Monika Reif, and J. Robinson (eds.) Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-Cultural, and Cognitive Perspectives. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 16-35.
  • 2012.  Dodsworth, Robin and Mary Kohn. Urban rejection of the vernacular: The SVS undone. Language Variation and Change, 24: 221-245.
  • 2010.  Dodsworth, Robin. Social class. In P. Kerswill, B. Johnstone, and R. Wodak (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics.
  • 2010. Durian, David, Robin Dodsworth, and Jennifer Schumacher. Convergence in blue-collar Columbus, Ohio, African American and White vowel systems? American Speech, 84, supplement 94: 161-190.
  • 2009. Dodsworth, Robin. Modeling socioeconomic class in variationist sociolinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 5: 1314-1327.
  • 2009. Owens, Jonathan and Robin Dodsworth. Stability in subject-verb word order: From contemporary Arabian Peninsular Arabic to Biblical Aramaic. Anthropological Linguistics 51, 2: 151-175.
  • 2009. Mallinson, Christine and Robin Dodsworth. Revisiting the need for new approaches to social class in variationist sociolinguistics. Special issue of Sociolinguistic Studies, ‘Analysing language to understand social phenomena’.
  • 2009. Owens, Jonathan, Bill Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth. Explaining null and overt subjects in spoken Arabic. In Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. Owens, Jonathan and Alaa Elgibali (eds). Routledge.
  • 2009. Owens, Jonathan, Robin Dodsworth, and Trent Rockwood. Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic: Morpholexical and event-based factors. Language Variation and Change 21/1.
  • 2008.  Dodsworth, Robin. Sociological consciousness as a component of linguistic variation. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 12: 34-57.
  • 2005.  Dodsworth, Robin. Attribute networking: A technique for modeling social perceptions.  Journal of Sociolinguistics, 9: 225-253.
  • 2004. Dodsworth, Robin. Attribute networking: A sociolinguistic technique for modeling subjective social space.  Berkeley Linguistics Society: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, 30: 69-80.

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