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I am a Lecturer in Sociolinguistics in Linguistics and English Language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. My interests within linguistics are sociolinguistics, variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
Contact
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| phone: | +44/(0) 131 650 3983 |
| snail-mail: | Linguistics and English Language The University of Edinburgh Dugald Stewart Building 3 Charles Street Edinburgh, EH8 9AD United Kingdom |
| office: | Dugald Steward Building 2.11 |
Recent Updates
- Mar 22—Plotting - ggplot2
- Feb 11—Week 5 - Recap and Reporting
- Feb 08—Split-Apply-Combine
- Feb 04—Week_4.nb
Availability
Projects
Speech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)
I am part of the UK team, along with PI Jane Stuart-Smith, working on the SPADE project, funded by the Digging into Data challenge.
Edinburgh Speaks
The Edinburgh Speaks project is still in the early planning stages. Our goal is to learn about how people communicate in Edinburgh.
For more information about the project, see the website. If you'd like to contribute your own knowledge to the project as a researcher or as an Edinburgh local, please get in touch!
Forced Alignment and Vowel Extraction
I help maintain the active development of the Forced Alignment and Vowel Extraction (FAVE) suite.
You can download the code from Github, where we also maintain a wiki to help new users get set up. There's also a nice users group.
Sound Change and the Phonology-Phonetics Interface
My dissertation investigated how phonetic and phonological factors influence language change in progress. So far, my research in this area has mostly utilized data from the Philadelphia Neighborhood Corpus.
On the basis of my investigation of the data it appears that categorical (phonological) factors play a crucial role in sound changes much earlier than it is sometimes realized.
Research
Papers →
forthcoming
The Study of VariationPublished To appear in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Phonology
Draft
2017
Generations, lifespans, and the zeitgeistPublished Language Variation and Change 29.1 pp 1-27
Journal
2017
The Role of Phonology in Phonetic ChangePublished Annual Review of Linguistics 3 pp 25-42
Journal
2016
Filled Pause Choice as a Sociolinguistic VariablePublished Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 22.2 pp 41-49
Journal
2016
The early influence of phonology on a phonetic changePublished Language 92.2 pp 376-410
Journal
2016
Variation and change in the use of Hestiation markers in Germanic languages.Martijn Wieling , Jack Grieve , Gosse Bouma , Josef Fruehwald , John Coleman and Mark Liberman Published Language Dynamics and Change
Journal
2015
I'm done my homework- Case assignment in a stative passiveJosef Fruehwald and Neil Myler Published Linguistic Variation 15.2 p141-168
Accepted Draft ; Journal
2015
An Evaluation of Sociolinguistic Elicitation MethodsZac Boyd , Zuzanna Elliott , Josef Fruehwald and Lauren Hall-Lew Published ICPhS
Proceedings
2013
Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate EffectJosef Fruehwald , Jonathan Gress-Wright and Joel Wallenberg Presented at NELS 40, 2009
Published Proceedings NELS 40
Paper
2013
One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementation, Reversal, and ReanalysisWilliam Labov , Ingrid Rosenfelder and Josef Fruehwald Published Language 89.1 p30-65
Paper
2011
Cross Derivational Feeding is EpiphenomenalJosef Fruehwald and Kyle Gorman Presented at NAPhC 6, ILLS 2 [PDF]
Published Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2011:36-50
Paper
2012
Redevelopment of a Morphological ClassPresented at PLC 35, 2011
Published PWPL 18.1
Handout ; Paper
2008
The Spread of Raising: Opacity, Lexicalization, and diffusionPresented at NWAV 36, 2008
Published Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2
Paper
2007
The Spread of Raising: Opacity, Lexicalization, and diffusionPublished as Undergraduate Thesis
Paper
Dissertation→
Conference Talks and Presentations →
2015
Is it really, um, informative?Presented at Edinburgh Language Variation and Change Research Group and Edinburgh Disfluency Research Group
HTML5 Slides
2012
Phonology has an Early Infuence on Sound ChangePresented at NELS 42
Poster [PDF] ; Handout [PDF]
2009
Report from the R Study Group: What I couldn't have done otherwisePresented at Splunch
Handout [PDF] ; R Code
2008
Evaluation and simulation of exemplar theoretic -t/-d deletionPresented at NWAV 37
Handout [PDF]
Invited Talks →
2015
Filled Pauses as a um... Sociolinguistic VariablePresented at Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 2015
HTML5 Slides
Workshops →
Teaching
I am usually the course organizer for the following courses
LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods
This is a second year pre-honours course being taught in the first semester. For more information, its DRPS entry. If you are a student on the course, all relevant information about the course can be found in the course handbook, and on Learn.
Intro to Sociolinguistics
This postgraduate course taught in the first semester serves as a foundational introduction to Sociolinguistics. It is a compulsory course for the MSc in Applied linguistics. For more information, see its DRPS entry.
Language Variation and Change
This honours course taught in the second semester will focus on how quantiative probabilities and grammatical theory can be brought together to be mutually informative. There is also a practical component involving learning how to use R.
Personal
Val Systems
My linguistics and everything else blog called Val Systems.
In Philadelphia, where I'm from, /aw/ is monopthongized before /l/, and I like to study vowels, hence the name "Val Systems."
Github
I've also started blogging here on github.
So far it has no name, and will be devoted to more techy things that are of less general interest than what I post to Val Systems.