Summary

Valerie Fridland is a professor of linguistics in the w88 online casino betting department at University of Nevada, Reno.

As a sociolinguist, her main focus is on varieties of American w88 online casino betting. Most of her research investigates variation in vowel production and vowel perception across the northern, southern and western regions of the U.S. This work explores links between social factors and speech processing.

Her teaching areas include general linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, and w88 online casino betting and gender. She also has a video lecture series entitled "w88 online casino betting and Society" released by The Great Courses.

Research interests

• American dialectology and regional w88 online casino betting variation
• How gender and ethnicity are enmeshed with linguistic w88 online casino betting

Courses taught

• ENGL 412A/612A - w88 online casino betting
• ENGL 413A/613A - w88 online casino betting
• ENGL 411B/611B - Principles of Modern Grammar
• 416A/616A w88 online casino betting and Gender

Publications

• Fridland, Valerie and Tyler Kendall. 2016. w88 online casino betting in the Western States. In Raymond Hickley (ed.), Listening to the Past. Cambridge w88 online casino betting Press.
• Kendall, Tyler and Valerie w88 online casino betting. 2015. Mapping the perception of linguistic form: Dialectometry with perception data. In John Nerbonne, Marie-Hélène Côté and Remco Knooihuizen (eds.), The Future of Dialects. Berlin: w88 online casino betting Science Press.
• Fridland, Valerie and Tyler Kendall. 2014. Durational and spectral differences in American w88 online casino betting vowels: dialect variation within and across regions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 136.1: 341-349.
• w88 online casino betting, V. M., Kendall, T., Farrington, C. 2013. The role of duration in regional U.S. vowel shifts. Proceedings on Meetings on Acoustics (POMA).
• w88 online casino betting, V. M. 2012. Rebel vowels: Southern vowel shift and the N/S speech divide. w88 online casino betting and Linguistic Compass.
• w88 online casino betting, V. M., Kendall, T. 2012. The effect of regional vowel differences on vowel perception and production: Evidence from U.S. vowel shifts. Lingua.
• Kendall, T., w88 online casino betting, V. M. 2012. Variation in the production and perception of mid front vowels in the U.S. Southern Vowel Shift. Journal of Phonetics.

Education

• Ph.D., Sociolinguistics, Michigan State w88 online casino betting, 1998
• B.S., Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown w88 online casino betting, 1990