Shelome Gooden
Shelome works on the prosodic properties of Caribbean
Creole languages. This includes a discussion of the phonological and
phonetic properties of contrasting subtypes of reduplication in Jamaican Creole.
Related to this group, she is currently working on the acoustic-phonetic correlates of stress in
Jamaican Creole.
Jessica Hogan
Scott F. Kiesling
Scott's research generally focuses on how social meaning
is created through language. For this group, his focus on how
phonetic variation is used to create social meaning. He's also interested in how
phonetic variation is acquired, and
all of of this affects the trajectories of language change.