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3773
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Walt Wolfram is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily within Social Sciences, Psychology, and Arts and Humanities. They have contributed substantially to subfields such as Linguistics and Language, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies.

The scientist's main topics of work include:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics
  • Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching

Wolfram has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Addressing Linguistic Inequality in Higher Education: A Proactive Model, 2023, Daedalus
  • Language & Social Justice in the United States: An Introduction, 2023, Daedalus
  • Oppositional Identity and Back-Vowel Fronting in a Triethnic Context: The Case of Lumbee English, 2021, American Speech
  • Signing Black in America, 2020, American Speech
  • Sociolinguistic variation and the public interest, 2021, Cadernos de Linguística

The frequent publication venues for Wolfram's work include:

  • American Speech
  • Daedalus
  • Cadernos de Linguística
  • Revista da Anpoll
  • Language and Linguistics Compass

Frequent co-authors of Walt Wolfram are:

  • Charlie Farrington
  • Mary Kohn
  • Jennifer Renn
  • Janneke Van Hofwegen
  • Marie Bissell

Among Wolfram's published books, the work African American Language (2020) was published by Cambridge University Press and has received scholarly citations.

Recognition in their field includes receiving the Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences award in 2019.

Best Publications

  • American English: Dialects and Variation

    Walt Wolfram;Natalie Schilling-Estes

  • American English: Dialects and Variation, 2nd Edition

    Walt Wolfram;Natalie Schilling-Estes

  • The study of social dialects in American English

    Stanley M. Tsuzaki;Walt Wolfram;Ralph W. Fasold

  • A sociolinguistic description of Detroit negro speech.

    Walt Wolfram

  • Dialects in Schools and Communities

    Carolyn Temple Adger;Walt Wolfram;Donna Christian

  • The development of African American English

    Walt Wolfram;Erik R. Thomas;Elaine W. Green

  • Some Linguistic Features of Negro Dialect

    Ralph W. Fasold;Walt Wolfram

  • Dialects and American English

    Walt Wolfram

  • Sociolinguistic aspects of assimilation : Puerto Rican English in New York City

    Walt Wolfram

  • Linguistic correlates of social stratification in Detroit speech

    Roger W. Shuy;Walt Wolfram;William K. Riley

  • The Relationship of White Southern Speech to Vernacular Black English

    Walt Wolfram

  • VARIABILITY IN TENSE MARKING: A CASE FOR THE OBVIOUS

    Walt Wolfram

  • Alternative models of dialect death : Dissipation vs. concentration

    Natalie Schilling-Estes;Walt Wolfram

  • Coming of age in African American English: A longitudinal study†

    Janneke Van Hofwegen;Walt Wolfram

  • Convergent Explanation and Alternative Regularization Patterns: "Were/Weren't" Leveling in a Vernacular English Variety.

    Natalie Schilling-Estes;Walt Wolfram

  • Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue

    Edwin Battistella;Walt Wolfram;Natalie Schilling-Estes

  • Moribund Dialects and the Endangerment Canon: The Case of the Ocracoke Brogue

    Walt Wolfram;Natalie Schilling-Estes

  • Are Black and White Vernaculars Diverging? Papers from the NWAVE XIV Panel Discussion

    Ralph W. Fasold;William Labov;Fay Boyd Vaughn-Cooke;Guy Bailey

  • Ethical Considerations in Language Awareness Programs.

    Walt Wolfram

  • Sociolinguistic Folklore in the Study of African American English

    Walt Wolfram

  • American English: Dialects and Variation

    John Algeo;Walt Wolfram;Natalie Schilling-Estes

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles
Suzanne Romaine
Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford
Ruth Wodak
Ruth Wodak Lancaster University
Jenny Cheshire
Jenny Cheshire Queen Mary University of London
Carol Myers-Scotton
Carol Myers-Scotton Michigan State University
Kendall A. King
Kendall A. King University of Minnesota
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Douglas W. Maynard
Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison
Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Elizabeth Closs Traugott Stanford University

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