Probing the Social Meaning of English Adjective Intensifiers as a Class Lab Project

charlotte vaughn is an instructor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Northwestern University. Her work investigates the perception of variability from sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic perspectives, focusing on the role of the listener in sociolinguistic variation. E-mail: cvaughn@uoregon.edu.

tyler kendall is associate professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon. Much of his research focuses on variation and change in American English, with emphases on language production and perception across regional and ethnic varieties of English. He is author of Speech Rate, Pause, and Sociolinguistic Variation: Studies in Corpus Sociophonetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and coeditor of two recent PADS monographs, Speech in the Western States, volumes 1 and 2 (Duke Univ. Press, 2016Duke Univ. Press, 2017). E-mail: tsk@uoregon.edu.

kaylynn gunter is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the University of Oregon. She received her B.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno, in English (linguistics) and psychology. Her research interests focus on exploring the intersection of sociolinguistics and cognition. E-mail: kgunter@uoregon.edu.