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Linguists in the Media

Rusty Barrett

New York Times (2021). "What Does it Mean to 'Yassify' Anything?"

USA Today (2023). Demons in Bible use they/them pronouns because of English grammar, not gender | Fact check

 

Allison Burkette

Subtitle Podcast (2022). "The Speechways of the Folk"

 

Andrew Byrd

I Don't Understand with William Shatner (2021). "Where Did Language Come From?"

 

Jennifer Cramer

Monks, Michael. 2022. "The Kentucky Side: Does Northern Kentucky have a southern accent?" Link NKY. https://linknky.com/podcasts/2022/09/26/the-kentucky-side-does-northern-kentucky-have-a-southern-accent/

Martin, Tom. 2022. “Program for February 10, 2022.” Eastern Standard. WEKU (Richmond) Radio. https://esweku.org/track/2986858/february-10-2022-full-length.

LeComte, Richard. 2021. “Linguistics Professor’s Knowledge of Language Helps Improve Exams for Family Doctors.” College of Arts & Sciences (UK). https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/linguistics-professor%E2%80%99s-knowledge-language-helps-improve-exams-family-doctors.

Stringer, Jay K. W. 2021. “Country queen snags All-Star crown, furthers conversation on the rural Queer voice.” Queer Kentucky. https://queerkentucky.com/country-queen-snags-all-star-crown-furthers-conversation-on-the-rural-queer-voice/.

Atkins, Audrey. 2021. “What’s so funny about my Southern accent?” Reckon South. https://reckonsouth.com/whats-so-funny-about-my-southern-accent/.

Friedlander, Whitney. 2021. “Walker, Clarice, The Queen's Gambit: Y'all, We Need to Talk About TV's Southern Accent Issues.” Paste Magazine. https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/southern-accents-on-tv-good-and-bad/.

 

Josef Fruehwald

Indignity (2022). Indignity Vol. 2, No. 20: The mysterious lingo of Philadelphia–Baltimore.

Philadelphia Inquirer (2023). https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/inq2/philadelphia-accent-water-wooder-linguistics-20230325.html

 

Dennis Preston

Paul Meier Dialect Services (2024). Episode 74: Folk Linguistics. 

USA Today (2023). Hold up, y'all: Slow-speaking states survey sells US language patterns short, linguists say

Subtitle (2020). The moment you realize you have accent privilege

Every Little Thing (2022). Why Do News Anchors Talk That Way?

CNN: Margins of Error (2022). Do I Sound Funny to You?

 

Interviewed by Aja Drain, forthcoming for an NPR Codeswitch broadcast/podcast on the

use of the lexical item “folk(s).”

Interviewed by Jessica Mendoza and Jingnan Peng, for the Christian Science Monitor

podcast Say That Again? Episode 1: “You are how you sound.” https://www.csmonitor.com/Podcasts/Say-That-Again.

With Valerie Fridland, Interviewed by Jahi Whitehead, for the Gimlet Media podcast, Every Little Thing, on American newscaster English. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MssiyrCyyxH8A1QJTvFO5 

 

2021

Interviewed for the podcast Oh, I see by Chloe Henderson for “Perceptual Dialectology and Midwestern dialects.” First broadcast January 26, available at Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/oh-i-see/id1494549257], Spotify, Facebook, Instagram, iHeart, Stitcher, and Twitter).

 

Interviewed for USA Today, on the use of “black” for African-American identity.