Research

Conferences

Kyle Vanderniet

"Come for the idioms stay for the statistical significance"

(SECOL) Boca Rotan, 5/30/2019

Joseph A. Stanley & Kyle Vanderniet “Consonantal variation in Utah English: What el[t]se is happening[k]?”

(LSUGA4). Athens, GA. October 6–8, 2017.

Joseph A. Stanley & Kyle Vanderniet

“Consonantal variation in Utah English: What el[t]se is happening[k]?”

(Americn Dialect Society). SLC UT, 1/7/2018

Current Projects

Athens Corpus: Collect, transcribe, and tag interviews with residents in and around Athens. The speakers demographic data is also collected, including, gender, ethnicity, country of birth, etc.

Utah English: Documenting the varieties of Utah English that appear by both region and generation.

Publications

Joseph A. Stanley & Kyle Vanderniet

"Consonantal Variation in Utah English"

LCUGA4 Proceedings 2017

Other Research

August 2015 - MA Thesis: Idioms as a measure of fluency.

Language: by Familiarity

Conversant

Korean

ASL

Low Proficiency

Spanish

Hausa

Tongan

German

Research Interests

Sociolinguistics

Fixed expression, eggcorns, snowclones

Innovations in Corpora

Computer Moderated Communication

Second Language Acquisition

How much do second generation language users adapt to regional dialects?
How related is proficiency with fixed expressions and general language fluency?

Applied Linguistics

Creating a corpus of Athens GA english.