Chocolate Chat: Misperceptions of Utah English

Join us for another great Chocolate Chat as Professor Joey Stanley of the Department of Linguistics shares insights into the unique vernacular of "Utah English".

Dr. Stanley specializes in sociophonetics, dialectology, and quantitative methods.His primary area of research is on English in the western and southern United States. Joey is currently involved in several research projects with students and other BYU faculty on Utah English and Latter-day Saint English. One of his major projects analyzes a collection of 750 interviews with residents of Heber City, Utah born in the early 20th Century. He is also part of a research team that analyzes seven generations of Georgians to track how Southern American English has changed over the past century. Finally, Joey is part of multiple collaborations with colleagues to crowd-source and analyze regional variation in North American English from different perspectives.

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