I Might Could Be Polylectal: Report from the
Mid-American Field. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society
conference, Chicago, January 1995.
Dialect Boundaries in Transition? Another Look at the
South Midland." Paper presented at the American Dialect Society annual
conference, Chicago, January 1997.
"A Dialect Study of Portsmouth, Ohio" (with Ashlea
Allen). Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics,
Charlotte, NC, April 1997.
Complementizer Variation in American English: Overt,
Covert, and Pleonastic. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society
annual conference, New York, January 1998.
Cross-dialectal Comprehension as a Function of
Residence and Education: Perceptions of the Speech ofSoutheastern Ohio
(with F. Paul Norris). Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference
on Linguistics, Norfolk, VA, April 1999.
"New Methods for Testing Cross-dialectal
Comprehension: The Vowels of Southern Ohio." PowerPoint presentation
(with Bethany Dumas) at the Methods in Dialectology conference, St.
John's, Newfoundland, August 1999.
Don or Dawn? Perception and Production of /o~oh/ in
Southern Ohio. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society annual
conference, Chicago, January 2000.
Dialect Comprehension in ESL: Assessment Tests and
Classroom Applications (with F. Paul Norris). Paperpresented at the
American Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference,
Vancouver, BC, March 2000.
"The Relationship of Ethnicity, Locale, and National
Identity to Attitudes toward English Language Legislation" (with Nancy
Sullivan and Robert Schatz). Paper presented at the American
Association of Applied Linguistics annual conference, Vancouver, BC,
March 2000.
Appalachian Speech in Southern Ohio. Paper presented
at the Appalachian Studies Association conference, Knoxville, TN, March
2000.
"Mapping the North Central States: Changing Views."
PowerPoint presentation for the New Ways of Analyzing Variation
conference, East Lansing, MI, October 2000.
"Appalachian Women and Language: Old and New Forms as
Reflections of a Changing Image." Paper presented at the Women of
Appalachia conference, Zanesville, OH, October 2000.
Ohio English Dialect Geography. PowerPoint
presentation at the State Linguistic Profiles conference on Michigan
and Ohio, Columbus, OH, May 2001.
Mapping the North Central States: Changing Views.
Presented at the MMLA/ADS conference, Cleveland, OH, November 2001.
"Mapping Ohio: Dialect Boundaries Revisited."
PowerPoint presentation to the Department of Linguistics, The Ohio
State University, Columbus, OH, February 2002.
"Teaching Introductory Linguistics: What Works."
Presentation to the Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH, February 2002.
"African American English: Its Origins and Status."
Presentation to the Institute for the African Child, Ohio University,
Athens, OH, July 2002 (and in July 2003).
"Appalachian English in Literature." Presentation to
the Summer Institute on Appalachian Literature: A Workshop for
Humanities Teachers, Athens, OH, August 2002.
"Grammar in Southeastern Ohio Speech: South Midland or
Appalachian?" (with Sandra L. Nesbitt). Presented at the American
Dialect Society conference, Atlanta, GA, January 2003.
"Teaching American Dialects: Bringing Scholarship to
the Schools." Special session on teaching varieties of English in
America, ADS annual conference, Atlanta, GA, January 2003.
"Perceptions of Vowel Mergers: Cot/Caught in the South
Midland." To be presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English
(NWAVE 32), Philadelphia, October 2003.
Dialects in Southern Ohio. Invited lecture to the
Meigs County Historical Society, Chester, Ohio, March 6, 2004.
English in the Midland: Migration Routes, Settlement
Patterns, and Present-Day Dialects. Lecture in Colloquium series, Dept.
of Linguistics, Ohio University, April 23, 2004.
Dialect Variation in Metropolitan Areas: Neighborhood
Patterns and Vowel Shifts. To be presented at the Methods in
Dialectology XII conference, Moncton, NB, August 1-5, 2005.
Co-convener, Symposium on Language in Appalachia: The
State of the Research and Future Directions. To be held at the
Appalachian Studies Association conference, Dayton, OH, March 16-19,
2006.
