Dr Maciej Baranowski
Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language
Address: Room NG.6, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL
Phone: +44 (0)161 275 3142
Email: maciej.baranowski at manchester.ac.uk
Research interests
- language variation and change, particularly at the level of phonetics and phonology
- quantitative sociolinguistics
- accents of English
- sociophonetics
My main area of interest is language variation and change - also known as variationist (or quantitative) sociolinguistics - particularly at the level of phonetics and phonology. I am currently conducting a project on phonological variation and change in the dialect of Manchester.
Publications
Authored books
2007. Phonological Variation and Change in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina. Publication of the American Dialect Society 92. Duke University Press.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
in press. The fronting of the back upgliding vowels in Charleston, South Carolina. Language Variation and Change.
2006 (with William Labov). 50 milliseconds. Language Variation and Change 18: 1-18.
2004. Doing the Charleston. Language Magazine: the Journal of Communication and Education 3.5.
2002. Current usage of the epicene pronoun in written English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 6.3: 378-397.
Book chapters
2006. Doing the Charleston. In Walt Wolfram & Ben Ward (eds.) American voices: How dialects differ from coast to coast, 29-35. Oxford: Blackwell.
Working papers
2006 (with William Labov, Sherry Ash, Maya Ravindranath, Tracey Weldon & Naomi Nagy). Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV34, New York City, Oct. 2005. 12.2: 105-129.
2006. From conservative to radical: sound change in the upper class of Charleston, S.C. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV34, New York City, Oct. 2005. 12.2: 25-38.
Professional biography
I received my PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. In my dissertation, supervised by William Labov, I studied phonological variation and recent changes in the dialect of Charleston, South Carolina.
Teaching
Varieties of English, Linguistics of American English, Sociolinguistics, Language and gender, World Englishes