CLCC Current Project Staff
David Durian is a seventh year graduate student in Linguistics at the Ohio State University. David is currently the main researcher on the CLCC Project, building on his interest in documenting variation and change in Columbus speech via the Central Ohio Dialect Survey since coming to OSU in 2003. David earned his BA in English and Linguistics at Northern Illinois University in 1999, his MA in Linguistics in 2007 at OSU, and hopes to complete his PH D at OSU in 2010. His advisors are Donald Winford and Cynthia Clopper. Besides conducting phonetic analyses and field work for the Central Ohio Dialect Survey and the CLCC Project, David has published several papers on Columbus speech, taught several undergraduate courses dealing with regional and social language variation for OSU, and served as a research mentor for several undergraduate interns. In addition, in March, 2006, he appeared on the NBC 4 News in Columbus in a segment dedicated to accent variation across the state of Ohio. |
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| Erica Leigh Ferguson is currently an undergraduate linguistics major in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. She began working as an intern on the CLCC Project in Fall Quarter 2009, contributing instrumental analyses of white and blue collar European American speech. She hails originally from Reynoldsburg, OH. | |
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Josh Roush is currently an undergraduate linguistics minor in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. He began working as an intern on the CLCC Project in Fall Quarter 2009, contributing instrumental vowel analyses of white and blue collar European American speech. He hails originally from Canton, OH. |
CLCC Previous Project Staff
Via our earlier work, as well as the current CLCC Project, the Central Ohio Dialect Survey has maintained strong ties with the Undergraduate Internship Program in the Department of Linguistics at OSU. Since 2005, the Central Ohio Dialect Survey has employed 7 undergraduate interns, providing interns with opportunities to present at conferences and also the potential to collaborate as co-authors on publications, when such possibilities have become available. The CLCC Project hopes to continue to foster strong ties with the program as time goes on.
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 has continued to work on projects as an occassional collaborator, most recently 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. Before working for the Central Ohio Dialect Survey, she also spent several quarters as a phonetic transcriber on the Buckeye Corpus project at OSU. She is now a third year graduate student in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science at OSU. Her advisors are Chrstina Roup and Larry Feth.
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, and is now a graduate student at 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.