Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Hometown: Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. Undergraduate: University of Arizona. Postgraduate: Stanford University. Previous post: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford.
Research Interests
Sociolinguistics; phonetic variation and change in English
Research Groups
Sociolinguistics Reading Group (convenor)
Language Variation and Change Research Group (co-convenor)
Visiting and Research Positions
2010–Present Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
2009–2010 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociolinguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature (ELL), Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (LPP), University of Oxford
2009–2010 Early Career Development Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Teaching
Course Organiser
- Language Variation and Change (Honours/MSc)
- Sociolinguistic Research Design (MSc)
Co-instructor or Guest Lecturer
- Guided Research Seminar A (Honours/MSc)
Administrative Roles
MSc Coordinator, LEL
Deputy Chair, LEL
Qualifications
September 2009 Ph.D. in Linguistics- Stanford University
January 2007 M.A. in Linguistics- Stanford University
August 2002 B.A. in Linguistics (summa cum laude)- University of Arizona
Additional Coursework
2007 LSA Linguistic Institute, Stanford University
2006 Summer Cooperative African Languages Institute (SCALI), Indiana University
2001 Study Abroad, Kunming, People's Republic of China, School for internatioanl training & Yunnan Normal University
2000 Study Abroad, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, Goethe Institut
Websites
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ethnicity and Phonetic Variation in a San Francisco Neighborhood, Stanford University
Award Date: 1 Jan 2009
Keywords
- P Philology. Linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- phonetics
- dialectology
- linguistic anthropology
- English
- variation
College Research Themes
- Identities & Inequalities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Phonetic cues to depression: A sociolinguistic perspective
Hall-Lew, L., Oct 2024, In: Language and Linguistics Compass. 18, 5, e12529.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Language technologies as if people mattered: Centering communities in language technology development
Markl, N., Lai, C. & Hall-Lew, L., 19 Feb 2024, (Accepted/In press) 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation : LREC-COLING 2024. ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)/International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL)Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Feeling disabled: Vowel quality and assistive hearing devices in embodying affect
Wan, T-L. A., Hall-Lew, L. & Cowie, C., Feb 2024, In: Language in Society. 53, 1, p. 71-97 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes from below and from above
Hall-Lew, L., 11 Aug 2023, (Accepted/In press) The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic Linguistics. Aldridge, E., Breitbarth, A., Kiss, K. É., Ledgeway, A., Simonenko, A. & Salmons, J. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell, (Companions).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
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Variation in the Scottish BIT vowel: Comparing two corpora
Hall-Lew, L., Elliott Slosarova, Z., Göbel, J., Cowie, C. & Markl, N., 10 Aug 2023, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (eds.). Prague: Guarant International, p. 3681-3685 740Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Open AccessFile
Activities
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Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives of Covid-19 from Edinburgh and the Lothians
Lauren Hall-Lew (Invited speaker)
7 Feb 2024Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Beyond attitudes and prestige: Why changes-from-below have social meaning
Lauren Hall-Lew (Invited speaker)
6 Oct 2023Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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United Kingdom Language Variation and Change 14
Christian Ilbury (Host) & Lauren Hall-Lew (Host)
2023 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
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Beyond attitudes and prestige: Why changes-from-below have social meaning
Lauren Hall-Lew (Invited speaker)
9 Nov 2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Beyond attitudes and prestige: Why changes-from-below have social meaning
Lauren Hall-Lew (Invited speaker)
3 Nov 2022Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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Innovation Initiative Grant: Tour Guides & Tourist Attitudes towards language in Scotland
1/07/13 → …
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
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Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives of Covid-19 from Edinburgh and the Lothians
1/01/22 → 31/07/23
Project: Research
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Our Stories, Ourselves: Narratives of Covid-19 from Edinburgh and the Lothians
1/01/22 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
Datasets
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Lothian Diaries Dataset 1 (May-September 2020)
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Data Collector), Lai, C. (Data Manager), Liu, S. (Data Collector), Markl, N. (Data Collector), McNulty, S. (Data Collector), Alex, B. (Data Collector), Llewellyn, C. (Data Collector), Kerr, N. (Data Collector), Elliott Slosarova, Z. (Data Collector), Klingler, A. (Data Collector) & Hall-Lew, L. (Owner), Edinburgh DataVault, 30 Sept 2022
DOI: 10.7488/7a22cc4b-87ec-4df3-a549-3b347fd4bca5
Dataset
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The Lothian Diary Project - Sep 2022
Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Creator), McNulty, S. (Creator), Markl, N. (Creator), Liu, S. (Creator), Lai, C. (Creator), Llewellyn, C. (Creator), Alex, B. (Creator), Kerr, N. (Creator), Elliott slosarova, Z. (Creator) & Klingler, A. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 8 Sept 2023
DOI: 10.7488/ds/7512
Dataset
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The Lothian Diary Project - Oct 2020
Kerr, N. (Creator), Lai, C. (Creator), Llewellyn, C. (Creator), Elliott slosarova, Z. (Creator), Klingler, A. (Creator), Hall-Lew, L. (Creator), Cowie, C. (Creator), McNulty, S. (Creator), Markl, N. (Creator) & Liu, S. (Creator), Edinburgh DataShare, 30 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.7488/ds/3009
Dataset
Press/Media
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An oral history of the pandemic and the Lothian Diary Project, in conversation with Lauren Hall-Lew
22/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other
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Anti-Asian Racism: How Language Fueled Hate Crimes and Xenophobia
9/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Dominant Speech: the Category of ’Race’ in Sociolinguistics
4/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
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Gendered OVID-19: How Scotland Experienced the Lockdown
Sarah Liu, Lauren Hall-Lew, Clare Llewellyn, Nina Markl & Stephen McNulty
5/02/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities