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Overview

Robert Bayley is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within arts and humanities, social sciences, and psychology. The subfields most prominent in their work include language and linguistics, linguistics and language, developmental and educational psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their academic focus centers on several key topics: linguistic variation and morphology, hearing impairment and communication, language, discourse, communication strategies, phonetics and phonology research, multilingual education and policy, Spanish linguistics and language studies, and linguistics and terminology studies.

Bayley has contributed to a number of research publications. Some recent papers include:

  • THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL PHONOLOGICAL FEATURE DURING A SEMESTER ABROAD IN ARGENTINA, 2020, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Acknowledging Our Multilingual Reality, 2021, American Speech

Frequent publication venues for this researcher include:

  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Language
  • American Speech
  • Sign Language Studies
  • Publication of the American Dialect Society

Bayley's collaborations involve several recurring co-authors such as Ceil Lucas, Carolyn McCaskill, Joseph A. Hill, Rebecca Pozzi, and Chelsea Escalante.

The researcher has also been involved in book publishing, with a notable work titled The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL published in 2020 by Gallaudet University Press.

Best Publications

  • Language as Cultural Practice: Mexicanos en el Norte

    Sandra R. Schecter;Robert J. Bayley

  • Language Socialization Practices and Cultural Identity: Case Studies of Mexican-Descent Families in California and Texas

    Sandra R. Schecter;Robert Bayley

  • Competing Constraints on Variation in the Speech of Adult Chinese Learners of English

    Robert Bayley

  • Second language acquisition and linguistic variation

    Robert James Bayley;Dennis Richard Preston

  • Null pronoun variation in Mexican-descent children's narrative discourse

    Robert Bayley;Lucinda Pease-Alvarez

  • The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure

    Carolyn McCaskill;Robert Bayley;Ceil Lucas

  • Planning Language, Planning Inequality: Language Policy in the Community

    Robert Bayley;James W. Tollefson

  • Language socialization in bilingual and multilingual societies

    Robert James Bayley;Sandra Schecter

  • Introduction: The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence

    Robert Bayley;Vera Regan

  • Language Variety in the South Revisited

    Cynthia Bernstein;Thomas Nunnally;Robin Sabino;Sharon Ash

  • The Oxford handbook of sociolinguistics

    Robert James Bayley;Richard Cameron;Ceil Lucas

  • Sociolinguistic Variation in American Sign Language

    Ceil Lucas;Robert Bayley;Clayton Valli;Mary Rose

  • Consonant Cluster Reduction in Tejano English.

    Robert Bayley

  • Location Variation in American Sign Language

    Ceil Lucas;Robert Bayley;Mary Rose;Alyssa Wulf

  • On the Choice of Relative Pronouns in English

    Gregory R. Guy;Robert Bayley

  • The Quantitative Paradigm

    Robert Bayley

  • Variation theory and second language learning : linguistic and social constraints on interlanguage tense marking

    Robert James Bayley

  • Language socialization in theory and practice

    Sandra R. Schecter;Robert Bayley

  • Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods, And Applications

    Robert James Bayley;Ceil Lucas

  • Variable Subject Presence in ASL Narratives

    Alyssa Wulf;Paul Dudis;Robert Bayley;Ceil Lucas

  • BILINGUAL BY CHOICE: LATINO PARENTS' RATIONALES AND STRATEGIES FOR RAISING CHILDREN WITH TWO LANGUAGES

    Sandra R. Schecter;Diane Sharken-Taboada;Robert Bayley

Frequent Co-Authors

Joan L. Herman
Joan L. Herman University of California, Los Angeles

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