Mary Elizabeth Kohn
Department of Linguistics
Smith 102a
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155
mkohn at email dot unc dot edu
Research interests:
- Language Variation and Change
- Sociophonetics
- prosodic variation
Current Projects:
- An exploratory study of front vowels in Raleigh, NC, headed by Robin Dodsworth
- Consonant cluster reduction and dialect differentiation: do patterns of preservation depend on whether dialects release stops?
- Quantifying speech rhythm: Social variation and syllable vs. stress-timing (with Melissa Farr)
Select Conference Papers and Publications:
- Kohn, Mary; and Hannah Franz. (Forthcoming). Localized Patterns for Global Variants: The Case of
Quotative Systems of African American and Latino Speakers. American Speech.
- Kohn, Mary; and Melissa Farr. 2009. Getting Rhythm: A methodological comparison of quantitative speech rhythm analyses. Paper presented at SECOL 76: Southeastern Conference on Linguistics . New Orleans, LA. link to abstract
- Kohn, Mary; and Janneke Van Hofwegen. 2009. The Diversity and Stability of Vocalic Variation among Bidialectal and Bilingual Children.Paper presented at ADS: American Dialect Society . San Francisco, CA.
- Dodsworth, Robin; and Mary Kohn. 2008. An exploratory study of front vowels in Raleigh, NC. Paper presented at NWAV 37: New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation. Houston, TX. link to abstract
- Bolonyai, Agnes, and Mary Kohn. 2008. 'Oh my gosh!': Evaluation and Voicing in Narratives from a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Proceedings from BUCLD 32: Boston University of Language Development. Boston, MA. link to paper
- Kohn, Mary. 2008. Latino English in North Carolina: A Comparison of Emerging Communities. MA thesis. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina State University. link to thesis
- Kohn, Mary. 2007. Systems theory and the description of emerging patterns of language variation. Paper presented at NWAV 36: New Ways of Analyzing Language Variation. Philadelphia, PA link to abstract
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