Sociolinguistics Lab at Berkeley

Lab Directors

Julianne Kapner

Linguistics

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Interests: sociophonetics, language change, language maintenance and endangerment, linguistics for social justice; Western Armenian, English, West African languages

Marguerite Morlan

Romance Languages and Literatures
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Interests: language attitudes and ideologies, linguistic landscape, language and identity, bilingualism, romance sociolinguistics (Catalan, Spanish, Occitan, and French), code-switching, indexicality, language contact

Faculty Advisors

Isaac L. Bleaman

Assistant Professor of Linguistics
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Interests: language variation and change, language contact, language planning, quantitative and computational methods, Yiddish

Justin Davidson

Associate Professor of Spanish and Romance Linguistics
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Interests: Romance linguistics, contact linguistics, bilingualism, Catalan, sociophonetics, language variation and change, quantitative methods

Members

Amber Galvano

Linguistics
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Interests: sociophonetics, phonetics-phonology interface, speech & sexuality, speech perception and production, variation & change, language & positionality, Spanish Linguistics

Ernesto R. Gutiérrez Topete

Hispanic Languages and Literatures
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Interests: sociophonetics, speech perception and production, language variation and change, language contact, quantitative and experimental methods, Spanish in the US, bilingualism

Annie Helms

Romance Languages and Literatures
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Interests: bilingual/L3 phonetics and phonology, production-perception link, sociophonetics, computational and experimental methods, US Spanish, Spanish-Catalan bilingualism, open science 

Jennifer Kaplan

Romance Languages & Literatures

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Gabriella Licata

Romance Languages and Literatures
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Interests: speech perception, language attitudes and ideologies, speaker identity, indexicality, feminist and queer studies, raciolinguistics

Aurora Martinez Kane

Linguistics
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Interests: language in social context, raciolinguistics, variation and change, Traditional New Mexican Spanish and its interaction with other Spanishes of the southwestern US and border region(s)

Emily Remirez

Linguistics
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Interests: speech perception, language and identity, socio-cultural linguistics, episodic models, undergraduate advising, equity and inclusivity in academia

Dakota Robinson

Linguistics
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Interests: multilingualism and language contact, language variation and change, language attitudes and ideologies, speech production, Breton

Ben Papadopoulos

Hispanic Languages and Literatures
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Interests: gender in language, variationist sociolinguistics, cross-linguistic transgender/non-binary language innovation, queer and trans theory, social theory

Julia Peck

Linguistics

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Interests: Language revitalization and reclamation, language contact, loanword integration, sociolinguistics and raciolinguistics, community-centric methodologies, Judeo-Spanish, Galician

Riley VanMeter

Romance Linguistics

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Interests: morphosyntactic change and variation, grammaticalization, quantitative and experimental methodology, sociolinguistics,comparative Romance linguistics/grammars, historical (socio-)linguistics, languages in contact, corpus linguistics

Rachel Weiher

Romance Languages and Literatures
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Interests: language variation and change, sociophonetics, language attitudes and ideologies, sociolinguistic competence in L2 language learners, language pedagogy

Eric Wilbanks

Linguistics
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Interests: phonetics and phonology, sociophonetics, language variation and change, laboratory phonology, speech perception and production, Hispanic linguistics