Department Head
Year Started at JMU: 2022
childsrl@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Becky Childs, Department Head
Specialization: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation and Change
Education:
- 2005 PhD (Linguistics), University of Georgia
Title of Dissertation: Investigating the Local Construction of Identity:
Sociophonetic Variation in Smoky Mountain African American Women’s Speech
Areas of Focus: Sociolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology - 2000 MA (English: Sociolinguistics Track), North Carolina State University
Title of Thesis: A Hyde County Clusterfest: Consonant Cluster Reduction in a
Historically Isolated African American Community - 1999 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics, University of Illinois
- 1997 BA (Major: English; Minor:TESL), University of Florida
Department of English
