Publications

Books & Edited Volumes

Kohn, Mary, Walt Wolfram, Charlie Farrington, Janneke Van Hofwegen, and Jennifer Renn. Forthcoming. The Development of African American English: The First Twenty Years of Life. Cambridge University Press.

Kendall, Tyler, and Charlie Farrington (eds.). 2019. “Exploring African American Language in the Nation’s Capital: Studies with the Corpus of Regional African American Language.” Special issue of the journal American Speech, 94.1.

Refereed Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Kendall, Tyler, and Charlie Farrington. 2021. Managing sociolinguistic data with the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL). In Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Lauren Collister, and Eve Koller (eds.), MIT Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12200.003.0019

Kendall, Tyler, Charlotte Vaughn, Charlie Farrington, Kaylynn Gunter, Jaidan McLean, Chloe Tacata, and Shelby Arnson. 2021. Considering performance in the automated and manual coding of sociolinguistic variables: Lessons from variable (ING). Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 4: 648543. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2021.648543

Farrington, Charlie, Sharese King, and Mary Kohn. 2021. Sources of variation in the speech of African Americans: Perspectives from sociophonetics. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science 12.3. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1550

Farrington, Charlie, and Natalie Schilling. 2019. Contextualizing the Corpus of Regional African American Language: DC: AAL in the nation’s capital. American Speech 94.1: 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-7308060

Farrington, Charlie. 2018. Incomplete neutralization in African American English: The case of final consonant voicing. Language Variation and Change 30.3: 361-383. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394518000145

Farrington, Charlie, Tyler Kendall, and Valerie Fridland. 2018. Vowel dynamics in the Southern Vowel Shift. American Speech 93.2: 186-222. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-6926157

Farrington, Charlie, Jennifer Renn, and Mary Kohn. 2017. Effects of school demographics on linguistic variation: A longitudinal analysis. In Gunther de Vogelaer and Matthias Katerbow (eds.), Acquiring Sociolinguistic Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.20.07far

Kohn, Mary, and Charlie Farrington. 2017. Longitudinal sociophonetic analysis: What to expect when working with child and adolescent data. In Suzanne Evans Wagner and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Panel Studies of Variation and Change. New York: Routledge Ltd.

McLarty, Jason, Tyler Kendall, and Charlie Farrington. 2016. Investigating the development of the contemporary Oregonian English vowel system. In Fridland, Valerie, Betsy Evans, Tyler Kendall, and Alicia Wassink (eds.), Speech in the Western States, Vol. 1: The Pacific Coast. Publication of the American Dialect Society. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 135-157. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3772934

Fridland, Valerie, Tyler Kendall, and Charlie Farrington. 2014. Durational and spectral differences in American English vowels: dialect variation within and across regions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 136.1: 341-349. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4883599

Kohn, Mary, and Charlie Farrington. 2012. Evaluating acoustic speaker normalization algorithms: evidence from longitudinal child data. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131.3: 2237-48. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3682061

Non-Refereed Publications

Farrington, Charlie. 2020. The Great Migration and the spread of a supraregional variant. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 26: Iss. 2.

Arnson, Shelby, and Charlie Farrington. 2017. Twentieth century sound change in Washington DC African American English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 23: Iss. 2, Article 2.

McLarty, Jason, Charlie Farrington, and Tyler Kendall. 2014. Perhaps we used to, but we don’t anymore: The Habitual past in Oregonian English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol.20: Iss. 2. Article 13.

Kohn, Mary, and Charlie Farrington. 2013. A tale of two cities: Community density and African American English vowels. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 19: Iss. 2, Article 12.

Fridland, Valerie, Tyler Kendall, and Charlie Farrington. 2013. The role of duration in regional U.S. vowel shifts. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 19: 060296. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4799047