Charlie
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Charlie
@crfarrington.bsky.social
Sociolinguist in Appalachia
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If you want to learn about the Detroit Dialect Study from the people who made it, check out our new American Speech Audio Feature:
doi.org/10.1215/0003...
The Detroit Dialect Study: Accessing a Foundational Study on the Social Stratification of American English | American Speech | Duke University Press
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If you want to learn about the Detroit Dialect Study from the people who made it, check out our new American Speech Audio Feature:
doi.org/10.1215/0003...
The Detroit Dialect Study: Accessing a Foundational Study on the Social Stratification of American English | American Speech | Duke University Press
doi.org
August 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“When I joined, linguistics was my second choice. I didn’t know it would be as fun as it is.” news.vt.edu/articles/202...
Humanities program sparks creativity, curiosity for middle schoolers
Thirty middle schoolers from across the New River and Roanoke valleys are enrolled in a Saturday humanities program at Virginia Tech studying linguistics, literature, creative fantasy writing, philoso...
news.vt.edu
February 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I'm not sure how often people dig through old papers on ERIC, but I came across a great one... "On the Contribution of the Linguist to Institutionalized Racism" by Clyde Williams, an LSA talk from 1969 1/n eric.ed.gov?id=ED039511
ERIC - ED039511 - On the Contribution of the Linguist to Institutionalized Racism., 1969-Dec
This paper attempts to discredit the theory held by many educational psychologists and found most prominently in works by Bereiter and Engelmann, that lower class children are verbally deprived. The a...
eric.ed.gov
December 27, 2024 at 9:09 PM
One of the things you learn early on as a sociolinguist is that Bill Labov thought deeply about, and *probably* wrote about, the thing that's interesting to you. I love going back to his early work for offhand comments or footnotes about something he noticed.
December 18, 2024 at 3:29 AM
Online Resources for African American Language is now available at oraal.github.io!
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oraal.github.io
September 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Just had a great (recorded) conversation with Walt Wolfram, Ralph Fasold, and Danica Cullinan about early sociolx research and Walt and Ralph's 60+ year friendship.
August 6, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I am really excited to dig into the current volume of Living Languages, called "Awakening Languages", featuring many of my great colleagues from the University of Oregon. scholarworks.umass.edu/livinglangua...
December 9, 2023 at 2:40 PM
"Yeah, I think so. He's the guy who looks like he came in from the woods?" Someone responding to a colleague about whether they've ever met me.

Yes, that's me.
October 25, 2023 at 5:42 PM
Nice to see some papers/posters using CORAAL at #NWAV51
October 13, 2023 at 5:30 PM