3. Western Vowel Patterns in White and Native American Nevadans’ Speech

ian clayton works in the areas of sociophonetics, language documentation, and laboratory phonology. His sociophonetic research is concerned with the varieties of English spoken in the Scottish Highlands and in the Western United States. He is also involved in the construction of an audio-video corpus representing many of the extant varieties of Scottish Gaelic. His recent work in laboratory phonology looks at the effects of lexical frequency on English consonant duration. He is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Reno. Email: [email protected].

valerie fridland is professor of linguistics in the Department of English at University of Nevada, Reno. As a sociolinguist, her main focus is on varieties of American English. Most of her research, with colleague Tyler Kendall, investigates variation in vowel production and vowel perception across the Northern, Southern, and Western regions of the United States, exploring links between social factors and speech processing. Her teaching areas include general linguistics, sociolinguistics, syntax, and language and gender. She also has a video lecture series titled Language and Society released by the Great Courses. Email: [email protected].