B.A. Harvard University, Linguistics with certificate in Mandarin Chinese
Ph.D. Stanford University, Linguistics with designation in Cognitive Science
I am an associate professor studying variation phenomena in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, and Irish Gaelic. I am primarily interested in the acquisition of sociolinguistic knowledge among children, particularly those growing up in a bilingual environment. Currently I am leading the Voices of Children in Singapore project investigating how children here learn about language variation. I am also beginning work on the Singapore Multilingual Corpus, which seeks to document the language use patterns of multilingual Singaporeans, including documentation of Southern Chinese varieties such as Cantonese and Hokkien. I also study teachers' stylistic variation in the classroom, sociolinguistic variation in the media, and the sociophonetic construction of style, as well as sociolinguistic variation in Singapore more generally.
Website: www.rebeccaluriestarr.com
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I am happy to supervise theses in the areas of variationist sociolinguistics and first or second language acquisition (particularly as it relates to variation). Students interested in working on Chinese are particularly encouraged to apply -- I am also willing to supervise research on English, Japanese, Korean, and other languages.
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