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Director:

Annette D’Onofrio, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics. She joined the faculty in Linguistics at Northwestern in 2016 after receiving her PhD from Stanford University. She also leads the Chicagoland Language Project. More information on her research and teaching can be found at her website.
donofrio[at]northwestern.edu

 

Graduate students:

Jaime Benheim is a third-year PhD student with research interests in sociophonetics and sociolinguistic cognition. She is especially interested how individuals produce and perceive socially meaningful links between linguistic features and other aspects of identity, like place and ethnic identity.
jbenheim[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

Amelia Stecker is a third-year PhD student who is interested in stylistic variation and social evaluations of language. Specifically, she explores the ways in listeners perceive sociolinguistic performances of gender.
astecker[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

 

Jennifer Dibbern is a second-year PhD student with research interests in multilingualism, language acquisition, phonology, language processing, raciolinguistics.
jenniferdibbern2023[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

 

Shawn Foster is a second-year PhD student.
shawnfoster2023[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

Qile Chen is a first-year PhD Linguistics student and my research interests include bilingual code-switching, speech perception and production and the effects of language background.

 

 

Chantal De Leon is a first-year PhD student with research interests in phonetics, speech perception, and sociolinguistics.
chantaldeleon2024[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

 

Kate Sandberg is a first-year PhD student with research interests in sociophonetics, speech communities, identity, and discourse function.

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate students:

Ryan Wagner is a third-year undergraduate studying linguistics and psychology.  His research interests include sociolinguistic development, indexicality, bilingual- and multilingualism, and cognitive representations.
RyanWagner2021[at]u.northwestern.edu

 

 

June Choe is a fourth-year undergraduate student.
YongChoe2020[at]u.northwestern.edu

Collaborators:

Sharese King, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago
sharesek[at]uchicago.edu

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