Valerie Freeman

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 Wassink
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Freeman, Valerie (2014). Hyperarticulation as a signal of stance. Journal of Phonetics 45, 1-11.
Adviser: Richard Wright
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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 Wright
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Courses Taught

Additional Courses

LING 450/550: Introduction to Linguistic Phonetics (Course Website)
LING 400: Survey of Linguistic Method and Theory
LING 200: Introduction to Linguistic Thought
LING/COM/ANTH 233: Introduction to Language and Society
SPAN 201: Intermediate Spanish
SPAN 103: Elementary Spanish & SPAN 103 Web-assisted
SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish

Links to example Spanish course websites

Resources & Related Links

Affiliations

Home Department

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)

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