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I am an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Kentucky. My interests within linguistics are sociolinguistics, variation and change, phonetics, and phonology.
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Recent Updates
- Feb 03—Splines_gams.nb
- Mar 22—Plotting - ggplot2
- Feb 11—Week 5 - Recap and Reporting
- Feb 08—Split-Apply-Combine
Availability
Projects
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 →
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.