Robin Dodsworth

Robin Dodsworth

Assistant Professor
Tompkins 287
919/515-4178 (office)
rmdodswo at ncsu dot edu

Education

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Linguistics, 2005
B.A., University of Dayton, 2000


Research Interests

Linguistic variation, sociophonetics, social theory and its interface with linguistics, social networks


Recent Publications

Selected

Forthcoming. Dodsworth, Robin and Mary Kohn. Dialect reallocation in Southern U.S. English. M. Putz, Monika Reif, and J. Robinson (eds.) Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

2011. Michnowicz, Jim and Robin Dodsworth (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Spanish Sociolinguistics. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla.

2010. Dodsworth, Robin. Social class. In P. Kerswill, B. Johnstone, and R. Wodak (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Sociolinguistics.

2010. Durian, David, Robin Dodsworth, and Jennifer Schumacher. Convergence in blue-collar Columbus, Ohio, African American and White vowel systems? American Speech, 84, supplement 94: 161-190.

2009. Dodsworth, Robin. Modeling socioeconomic class in variationist sociolinguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3, 5: 1314-1327.

2009. Owens, Jonathan and Robin Dodsworth. Stability in subject-verb word order: From contemporary Arabian Peninsular Arabic to Biblical Aramaic. Anthropological Linguistics 51, 2: 151-175.

2009. Mallinson, Christine and Robin Dodsworth. Revisiting the need for new approaches to social class in variationist sociolinguistics. Special issue of Sociolinguistic Studies, 'Analysing language to understand social phenomena'.

2009. Owens, Jonathan, Bill Young, Trent Rockwood, David Mehall, Robin Dodsworth. Explaining null and overt subjects in spoken Arabic. In Information Structure in Spoken Arabic. Owens, Jonathan and Alaa Elgibali (eds). Routledge.

2009. Owens, Jonathan, Robin Dodsworth, and Trent Rockwood. Subject-verb order in spoken Arabic: Morpholexical and event-based factors. Language Variation and Change, 21/1.


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Courses

ENG 210: Introduction to Language and Linguistics
ENG 324: Modern English
ENG 523: Language Variation Research Seminar
ENG 524: Introduction to Linguistics

Course Syllabi

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