Current
Appointment
- Fall
2006 - present. Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University, Department
of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Spring
2009 Classes
- ENG
584 -- Latinos and Language
- FLS
400 -- Methods and Techniques of Spanish Translation
Education
- 2005,
Ph.D. Spanish Linguistics. University of Houston, Houston, TX.
- 1997,
M.Ed. Second Language Education. University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Research
Funding
- 2006-2008
- $55,000
-- National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Grant
Research
Experience
- 2006-2007
- Visiting
Scholar, Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
- 2006-2008
- Research
Fellow, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation
- 2003-2006
- Researcher, Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
- 2000-2001
- Research
Assistant, Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage, University
of Houston
- Summer
1999
- Research
Fellow, Yucatán Field School, Tetíz, MX
- Summer
1997
- Research
Fellow, Yucatán Field School, Tetíz, MX
Teaching
Experience
- Fall
2008
- Methods
and Techniques of Spanish Translation
- Spanish Sociolinguistics
- Fall
2007
- Methods
and Techniques of Spanish Translation
- Seminar on African American and Latino English
- Fall
2006
- Methods
and Techniques of Spanish Translation
- Advanced
Spanish Grammar
- Spring
2006
- Sociolinguistics
of Reading (with William Labov)
- Fall
2005
- Introduction
to African American and Latino English (with William Labov)
- Fall
1997 - Fall 1999
- Introductory
and Intermediate Spanish courses
Service
- Fall
2006-present
- Member
-- Ph.D. planning committee -- NCSU Department of Foreign Languages
& Literatures.
Select
Conference Papers
- March
2007. A new look at Spanish attrition in the US: Language shift among
Mexican Americans in South Texas. XXI Conference on Spanish in the
U.S. George Mason University. Arlington, VA. (with Phillip Carter)
- January
2007. Puerto Ricans’ use of AAE & the emergence of an urban English
dialect. Linguistic Society of America. Anaheim, CA. (with Keelan Evanini)
- May
2006. Dialect differences and decoding: More evidence of the bilingual
advantage. Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Conference. Toronto,
Canada. (poster)
- April
2006. Variation and change in hypothetical discourse in the 19th and
20th centuries in the Southwest. Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics.
Temple University. Philadelphia, PA.
- March
2006. Is it AAVE or not? A study of Puerto Rican English in Philadelphia.
Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics (GURT). Washington, DC.
(with Keelan Evans)
- October
2005. Features of African American Vernacular English as features of
Puerto Rican English: A study of adolescents in Philadelphia. New Ways
of Analyzing Variation and Change (NWAV 34). New York University. New York,
NY. (with Keelan Evans)
- August
2005. A corpus study of past subjunctive in Spanish in the Southwest:
1500s to 1907. XVII International Conference on Historical Linguistics
(ICHL). University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
- December
2004. Social factors, linguistic conditioning, and variation in use of
the '-ra' and '-se' endings of the Spanish subjunctive in the 19th century.
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention. Philadelphia, PA.
- September
2004. The expression of possession by Latino children: Social factors.
New Ways of Analyzing Variation and Change (NWAV 33). University of Michigan.
Ann Arbor, MI.
Publications
- Feature
of AAVE as features of PRE: A study of adolescents in Philadelphia. Selected
Papers from NWAVE 34. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguisitcs. 11.3. (with
Keelan Evanini)
- Variation
in the expression of possession by Latino children. Language Variation
and Change. 2006. 18(1):1-13.
- The
expression of possession by Latino children: Social factors. Select Papers
from NWAVE 33. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics. 2005. 11.2.
Research
interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Language
variation and change
- Spanish
in the U.S.
- Spanish/English
bilingualism
- Latino
English
- African
American English
- Dialect
differences and education
This page last updated January 18, 2009 by Tonya
E. Wolford