Research

My research focuses on how individuals express their group memberships and affiliations phonetically. My primary interests are in the English varieties of the Southern United States and the Appalachian region.

Recent Publications

Articles

Reed, Paul E. 2014. Inter- and Intra- generational monophthongization and Appalachian Identity. Southern Journal of Linguistics 38 (1), 159-193. pdf

Montgomery, Allen, Paul E. Reed,  Kimberlee A. Crass, Joanna Stith, and H. Isabel Hubbard. 2014. The effect of measurement error and vowel removal on the locus equation measure of coarticulation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136 (5), 2747-2750. pdf

Reviews

Reed, Paul E. 2014. Defining the field: A comprehensive introduction to sociophonetics. Review of Sociophonetics: An Introduction by Erik R. Thomas. American Speech 89:1, pp. 111-114. pdf