Products of the Wisconsin Englishes Project
(i.e., research, teaching and service on the varieties of English and its influencing substrate languages used in the upper Midwest, chiefly WI & eastern MN)
A. Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Wilkerson, M. & Salmons, J. In review. Linguistic Marginalities: Becoming American without Learning English. Journal of Transnational American Studies.
Remlinger, K., von Schneidemesser, L. & Salmons, J. 2009. Revised Perceptions: Changing dialect awareness in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula. American Speech 84: 177-191.
Purnell, T. 2009. Convergence and contact in Milwaukee: Evidence from select African American and white vowel space features. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 28(4): 408-427.
Purnell, T., Raimy, E. & Salmons, J. 2009. Defining dialect, perceiving dialect and new dialect formation: Sarah Palin’s speech. Journal of English Linguistics 37(4): 331-355.
Wilkerson, M. & Salmons, J. 2008 ‘Good old immigrants of yesteryear’ who didn’t learn English: Germans in Wisconsin. American Speech 83(3): 259–283.
Purnell, T. 2008. Pre-velar raising and phonetic conditioning: Role of labial and anterior tongue gestures. American Speech 83(4): 373-402.
Purnell, T., Salmons, J., Tepeli, D., & Mercer, J. 2005. Structured heterogeneity and change in laryngeal phonetics: Upper Midwestern final obstruents. Journal of English Linguistics 33(4): 307-338.
Purnell, T., Salmons, J., & Tepeli, D. 2005. German substrate effects in Wisconsin English: Evidence for final fortition. American Speech 80(2): 135-164.
B. Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
Purnell, T. 2010. Phonetic detail in the perception of ethnic varieties of US English. In A Reader in Sociophonetics (Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs 219), D. Preston and N. Niedzielski (eds.). New York: De Gruyter Mouton.
Salmons, J. & Purnell, T. 2010. Contact and the development of American English. In Handbook of Language Contact, R. Hickey (ed.), 455-477. Oxford: Blackwell.
Purnell, T. 2010. The vowel phonology of urban Southeastern Wisconsin. In AAE speakers and their participation in local sound changes: A comparative study. Publication of the American Dialect Society volume (#94), M. Yeager-Dror & E. Thomas (eds.), 191-217. Durham: Duke University Press.
Tepeli, D., Salmons, J., & Purnell, T. 2008. Was bleibt bestehen? Der deutsche Einfluß auf das Amerikanische. In Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA – The German presence in the U.S.A., J. Raab & J. Wirrer (eds.), 745-763. Münster: LIT Verlag.
Salmons, J. 2007. Immigrant German. The American Midwest: An interpretative encyclopedia, ed. by Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher & Andrew Clayton, 335-337. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Kluge, C.L. & Salmons, J. 2006. A transcontinental regional perspective on migration: A concluding word. Wisconsin German Land and Life, ed. by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge & Robert Ostergren, 237-239. Madison: Max Kade Institute.
Geiger, S. & Salmons, J. 2006. Reconstructing variation at shallow time depths: The historical phonetics of 19th-century German dialects in the U.S. Variation and Reconstruction, ed. by Thomas Cravens, 37-58. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Salmons, J., Tepeli, D., & Purnell, T. 2006. Deutsche Spuren im amerikanischen Englischen? Auslautverhärtung in Wisconsin. In Sprachinselwelten—The World of Language Islands, N. Berend & E. Knipf-Komlósi (eds.), 205-225. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
C. Academic Presentations
2011 Annear, Clare, Groh, Purnell, Raimy, Salmons & Simonsen, Emerging regional differences in final obstruents. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Baltimore, January 8, 2010.
2010 Annear, Clare, Groh, Purnell, Raimy, Salmons & Simonsen, Why do English speakers neutralize VOICING finally? New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, San Antonio, TX, November 4-6, 2010.
2010 Annear, Clare, Groh, Purnell, Raimy, Salmons & Simonsen, Strong Wisconsin: Final laryngeal neutralization. American Dialect Society Fall Meeting with the Midwest MLA, Chicago, IL, November 4-7, 2010.
2010 Annear, Clare, Groh, Purnell, Raimy, Salmons & Simonsen, Sound change after contact: How old immigration is still shaping American English, Oslo, August, 2010.
2010 Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Visualizing and simulating sociophonetics and linguistic mapping: New tools for teaching and research. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Baltimore, January 8, 2010.
2010 Purnell, Upper Midwestern [o]: Differences between open- and closed-syllable word classes. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, Baltimore, January 8, 2010
2010 Livengood, Wilkerson & Salmons, Mapping Language Shift over Time: German-speaking Wisconsin, 1910 to 1920. Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism (WUN conference with the University of Leeds). University of Wisconsin. March.
2009 Lucht, Frey & Salmons, Town and Country: Language Shift in Urban and Rural Southeast Wisconsin. Session on language and immigration, GLAC/SHEL, Banff.
2009 Wilkerson & Salmons, with the Wisconsin Social Network Group. “Man mußte ja Englisch können” — Sozialnetzwerke deutscher Monolingualen in Wisconsin. In statu nascendi: Abschiedskolloquium for Prof. Dr. Jan Wirrer. Universität Bielefeld. February.
2008 Purnell, Black-White Vowel Space in Milwaukee: Accommodation, Contact, and Authenticity. The 11th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Tucson, Arizona, July 16-20, 2008.
2008 Purnell, Modeling dialect-related variability in American English plosives. Invited talk at the 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, June 29-July 4, 2008.
2008 Purnell, Rodgers & Salmons, Expanding the set of acoustic features of the post-vocalic voicing contrast in English. 155th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Paris, France, June 29-July 4, 2008.
2008 Purnell, AAE in Milwaukee: Contact at a vowel shift frontier. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 3-6 2008
2008 Remlinger, Salmons & Von Schneidemesser, Reshaping Dialect Awareness. American Dialect Society. Chicago, January.
2007 Salmons & Wilkerson, ‘Good old immigrants of yesteryear’ who didn’t learn English: Evidence from Germans in Wisconsin. Society for German-American Studies. Kansas University, April. (Also to presented at the German Language & Immigration video conference, Madison-Berlin, January.)
2007 Salmons & Wilkerson, Debunking a Myth: How Fast Did German Immigrants Learn English & Why Does it Matter Today? Max Kade Institute lecture, UW–Madison.
2005 Salmons, Wisconsin English: How our linguistic past shapes our present. Winchester Academy, September.
2005 Salmons, Varietäten des Deutschen in Wisconsin: Plattdeutsch, Hochdeutsch und Englisch im Kontakt. Universität Bielefeld, June.
2005 Salmons, Zur historischen Sprachinselsoziolinguistik: Deutsche Dialekte, Standardsprache und Englisch im amerikanischen „Upper Midwest.” Universität Heidelberg. June.
2005 Purnell, The secret life of vowels: Diphthongization, mergers and shifts. American Dialect Society, Midwest Region with the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 10-13, 2005.
2005 Mercer, Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, Final obstruent voicing in western Wisconsin. American Dialect Society, Midwest Region with the Midwest Modern Language Association, Milwaukee, WI, November 10-13, 2005.
2005 Purnell, Phonetic detail in the perception of ethnic varieties of US English. AILA, the 14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Madison, WI, July 26, 2005.
2005 Mercer, Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, “Are you coming with?” German Influences on Wisconsin English. Max Kade Institute, Madison, WI, February 9, 2005
2005 Purnell, Intensity as cue of diphthong identification and language variation. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, January 8, 2005
2005 Mercer, Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, Upper Midwestern obstruent variation: There’[s] more of it than you might think. Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society, San Francisco, January 8, 2005
2004 Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, Was bleibt bestehen? Der deutsche Einfluss auf das Amerikanische. Symposium for the German Presence in the U.S.A., at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF), Universität Bielefeld, October 20-23 2004.
2004 Mercer, Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, Regional variation in American English final obstruents: Cross-generational acoustics of ‘final devoicing.’ New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33, October 2, 2004.
2004 Purnell, Articulation changes over time: An implication for vowel plots. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33, October 1, 2004.
2004 Purnell, Gestural stability in vowels. 147th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, NY, May 24-28, 2004.
2004 Purnell, Salmons & Tepeli, German substrate effects in Wisconsin English: Evidence for ‘final devoicing.’ Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference 10, University of Michigan, May 8-10 2004.
D. Service Presentations & Public Media Exposure
2010 August 4, 2010, Northwoods Academy, Rhinelander, WI, teacher training.
2009- Meetings in Milwaukee, Mineral Point, Rhinelander and Wausau, Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant for ‘Language matters in Wisconsin: A community-based initiative.’
2009 November 15, 2009, Associated Press article on Palin’s accent, carried by numerous news outlets, e.g., Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Palin’s speech has ’30s roots, don’t cha know.”
2009 October, presentations to high school students on Wisconsin Englishes, Mineral Point, WI.
2008 October 2, 2008, St. Louis Post Dispatch, “Palin’s accent is a new sound.”; Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Palin spoken: An atypical accent can spell success.”; Connecticut Post, “Ice-shelf accent may spell success.”; Houston Chronicle, “Accent a positive accessory for Palin.”; Mobile News Network, “Palin spoken: An atypical accent can spell success.”
2008 Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes, Sheboygan.
2008 Wisconsin State Journal, March 30, 2008, “You bin shiftin’ yer vowuls?”
2007 Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes, Beaver Dam, Madison, Watertown.
2007 Beaver Dam (Wis.) Daily Citizen, June 8, 2007, “Boiled Lawyer and the Bubbler.”
2007 Guest, WBEV 1430 AM, June 6, 2007, Community Comment: “Skahnsin English.”
2007 Guest, WORT 89.9 FM, Madison, May 30, 2007, “A Public Affair.”
2006 Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes Project, Milwaukee, Eau Claire, Madison.
2006 Speaker, Wisconsin Englishes, Attic Angel Association, Madison, November 27, 2006.
2006 Mention of research by Steve Roisum, WPR La Crosse, October 10, 2006: “Wisconsin Dialects Are Changing.” (http://csumc.wisc.edu/WiscEng/Wep_publicity/news061011sr.rm)
2006 Wisconsin Week, October 17, 2006, “Podcasting for Student Ears.”
2006 Chippewa Herald, September 5, 2006, “You say ‘pop,’ I say ‘soda’.”
2006 Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, September 5, 2006, “Regional Accents Abound in State.”
2006 Associated Press article, September 1, 2006, “Speech Differences in Wisconsin Being Studied.”
2006 On Wisconsin, Summer 2006, “Talkin’ ‘Skahnsin. Linguists listen to how we talk ‘round here.”
2006 Guest, “Live at 5”, WISCTV3, Madison, Wisconsin, April 12, 2006.
2006 Guest, “Dueling dialects in the Badger State”, WIBA 1310, Madison, Wisconsin, March 30, 2006.
2006 Guest, “Whad’Ya Know?” Radio show, interview with Michael Feldman, March 25, 2006.
2006 Guest, “Here and Now”, interview with Frederica Freyberg on WPT, March 24, 2006 (http://www.wpt.org/npa/transcripts/index.cfm?did=21925).
2006 Isthmus, Madison, WI, weekly paper, March 24, 2006, “Something to talk about: Wisconsin Englishes project charts trends in dialects.”
2006 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 21, 2006, “That Wisconsin accent . . . or is it an eccent?”
2006 Wisconsin State Journal, March 17, 2006, “Researchers want to hear that ‘Sconsin slang”
2006 University of Wisconsin News, March 16, 2006, “Linguists set sights on ‘Skahnsin’ English”
2006 UW-Eau Claire News Bureau, March 14, 2006, “Linguists invite area residents to discuss ‘Skahnsin’ English.”
2005 Guest, “Conversations with Joy Cardin”, Wisconsin Public Radio, March 14, 2005. (http://clipcast.wpr.org:8080/ramgen/wpr/jca/jca050314c.rm)
2005 Badger Herald, March 11, 2005, “UW Linguists Find Dialect Differences.”
E. Courses Taught
Raimy Wisconsin Englishes (English 338), Spring 2010
Salmons German Language and Immigration in International Perspective (with Robert Howell, Mark Louden and colleagues at UNC, FU-Berlin and Viadrina (Frankfurt/Oder), Spring 2006
Salmons Migrations and Germanic Languages (with Robert Howell), Fall 2010
F. Computer Programs or Electronic Media
2007- Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Wisconsin Speech Chain On-Line (WiSCO), tool for teaching the speech chain.
2005- Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Wisconsin Englishes Podcasts and Enhanced Podcasts. (http://csumc.wisc.edu/wep)
G. Funding Support (received)
2011-2012 Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Brittingham Trust for ‘Student-driven outreach and research on language in Wisconsin’, ($4,000).
2009-2012 Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant for ‘Language matters in Wisconsin: A community-based initiative’ ($79,095).
2009-2010 Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, Kemper K. Knapp Bequest grant for ‘UW Phonetics Lab: Documenting locality through language’ ($4,545).
2007- Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, DoIT/Engage Gaming and Simulations, Stages II & III, development and implementation of ‘Teaching the Speech Chain’ ($132,000).
2007-2008 Purnell, Graduate School Fall Research Competition Award for ‘Identifying Gestural Change in African American English in the Upper Midwest’ ($7,991).
2007 Purnell & Salmons, Wisconsin Humanities Council’s Major Grant for ‘Wisconsin English’ ($10,000).
2006-2007 Purnell, Graduate School Fall Research Competition Award for ‘Variation in the Articulatory-Acoustic Mapping of Low Vowels in Wisconsin English’ ($21,572).
2006 Purnell & Salmons, Wisconsin Humanities Council Mini Grant for ‘Wisconsin Englishes’ ($2,000).
H. Funding Support (pending)
Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, ‘Wisconsin Englishes Project’, Graduate School Fall Competition, University of Wisconsin-Madison, submitted.
Purnell, Raimy & Salmons, ‘Interactive Linguistic Mapping’, National Science Foundation ($190,950), submitted July 15, 2010.