PhD Contact Information valerief@uw.edu Fields of Interest Dialectology Phonetics Phonology Sociolinguistics Sociophonetics Biography PhD, Linguistics, University of Washington, 2015 MA, Linguistics, University of Washington, 2010 BS, Psychology, University of Idaho, 2004 Research Selected Research Richard Wright, PI. Acoustic and Perceptual Effects of WDRC Amplification III - Adaptation to distortion Valerie Freeman. "The Phonetics of Stance-taking." Diss. U of Washington, 2015.Adviser: Richard Wright Gina-Anne Levow, Valerie Freeman, Alena Hrynkevich, Mari Ostendorf, Richard Wright, Julian Chan, Yi Luan, Trang Tran. (2014) Recognition of Stance Strength and Polarity in Spontaneous Speech. In Proceedings of SLT-2014 (to appear). Download PDF Freeman, V. (2014). Bag, beg, bagel: Prevelar raising and merger in Pacific Northwest English. University of Washington Working Papers in Linguistics, 32. Adviser: Alicia Beckford WassinkDownload PDF Freeman, Valerie (2014). Hyperarticulation as a signal of stance. Journal of Phonetics 45, 1-11. Adviser: Richard WrightDownload PDF Valerie Freeman. "Using acoustic measures of hyperarticulation to quantify novelty and evaluation in a corpus of political talk shows." MA Thesis. U of Washington, 2010.Adviser: Richard WrightDownload PDF Courses Taught Additional Courses LING 450/550: Introduction to Linguistic Phonetics (Course Website)LING 400: Survey of Linguistic Method and TheoryLING 200: Introduction to Linguistic ThoughtLING/COM/ANTH 233: Introduction to Language and SocietySPAN 201: Intermediate SpanishSPAN 103: Elementary Spanish & SPAN 103 Web-assistedSPAN 102: Elementary SpanishLinks to example Spanish course websites Resources & Related Links Personal Website UW Student Website CV Affiliations Home Department Linguistics Professional Affiliations UW Linguistic Phonetics Lab, UW Sociolinguistics Lab Related News Related News Alicia Beckford Wassink gives Invited Plenary Address at Linguistics Society of America's annual meeting in Portland (December 15, 2014) UW Linguistics PhD candidate's poster featured in ASA, AIP press release (December 4, 2014)
