CLCC Intern Project Staff
From 2005-2010, the CLCC Project employed 7 undergraduate interns. It also occassionally provided interns with opportunities to present at conferences and collaborate as co-authors on publications and conference papers. Below is a list of the interns who collaborated on the project. We wish to thank each and every one of them for the hard work they put in on tagging vowels and measuring vowel formants. The CLCC project would not have been possible without their efforts!
- Erica Leigh Ferguson is currently an undergraduate linguistics major in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. She worked as an intern on the CLCC Project in Fall Quarter 2009, as well as Winter Quarter 2010, and continued to work on the project as a volunteer collaborator in Spring Quarter, 2010. She contributed instrumental analyses of white and blue collar European American speech.
- Josh Roush is currently an undergraduate linguistics minor in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. He served as an intern on the CLCC Project in Fall Quarter 2009, contributing instrumental vowel analyses of white and blue collar European American speech.
- Emily Dorrian is currently an undergraduate linguistics major in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. She served as an intern on the CLCC Project in Winter Quarter 2009, contributing instrumental vowel analyses of older blue collar European American speech.
- Missy Reynard served an internship on the project in the Spring of 2007, assisting in the analysis of white collar European American vowel systems, as well as continuing to work as a volunteer on the comparative analysis of white collar African American and European American vowel systems after graduating from OSU with a BA in Linguistics that quarter. Missy co-authored a conference presentation with Jenn Schumacher and David Durian entitled "Social class, convergence, and the vowel systems of Columbus, OH AAE and EAE." The paper was presented at NWAV 36 in 2007 in Philadelphia, PA, and the 2008 LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL.
- Jennifer Schumacher did 2 quarters of internship credit work on the Central Ohio Dialect Survey, during the Fall 2006 and Winter 2007 quarters. During that time, she worked on completing instrumental analyses of blue collar and white collar Columbus vowel systems. Following her internship, Jenn continued to work on the project as a volunteer collaborator, co-authoring two papers comparing blue collar and white collar African American and European American English speaker vowel systems in Columbus. Jenn completed a BA in Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at OSU in Spring, 2007.
- Val Lindak served an internship on the project in the Spring of 2006. Val assisted in the analysis of white collar European American vowel systems. She has since graduated with a BA in English from OSU.
- Andrew Smith served as an intern on the project in Spring, 2005, and has since graduated with a BA in Linguistics from OSU. Andrew assisted in one of our earliest analyses of white collar European American vowel systems. He also helped collaborate on the creation of an important early CLCC manuscript with David, entitled "Fronter, lower, and (shorter): The trajectory of /ow/ and /aw/ in Columbus, OH." This paper has helped to build the back bone of some of our most recent project analysis work.