James A. Walker, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 2017 | York University | York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 2017- | La Trobe University, Flora Hill, Victoria, Australia |
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"James Walker"Bio:
James Walker specializes in linguistic variation and change. His interests include sociolinguistics, multilingualism, ethnicity, language contact, phonology and morphosyntax. He has worked on variation in English (including African American English, Canadian English and Caribbean English) and Sango (the national language of the Central African Republic).
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 2000.
Thesis Title: “Present Accounted For: Prosody and Aspect in Early African American English” Supervisor: Shana Poplack
M.A., Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, 1995.
M.A., Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, 1991.
B.A. (Honours, cum laude), Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto, 1989.
Current Position
Associate Professor, Linguistics, Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, 2006-present.
Previous Positions
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Cross-listing: Anthropology Tree
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| Shana Poplack | grad student | 2000 | University of Ottawa | |
| (Present accounted for: Prosody and aspect in early African American English.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Laura Baxter | grad student | York University | |
| Jess Spieker | grad student | York University | |
| Paul De Decker | grad student | 2002 | York University |
Publications
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| Walker JA, Meyerhoff M. (2020) Pivots of the Caribbean? Low-back vowels in eastern Caribbean English Linguistics. 58: 109-130 |
| Daleszynska-Slater A, Meyerhoff M, Walker JA. (2019) Order in the creole speech community: Marking past temporal reference in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Lethaia. 3: 58-88 |
| Walker JA. (2018) Rena Torres Cacoullos & Catherine E. Travis, Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 240, xv. Hb. £85. Language in Society. 47: 787-789 |
| Gross J, Boyd S, Leinonen T, et al. (2016) A tale of two cities (and one vowel): Sociolinguistic variation in Swedish Language Variation and Change. 28: 225-247 |
| Walker JA, Meyerhoff M. (2015) Bequia English Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English. 128-143 |
| Walker JA. (2014) Sali A. Tagliamonte, Roots of English: Exploring the history of dialects .Cambridge and New York:Cambridge University Press,2013. Pp. xv + 153. ISBN978-0-521-68189-6. English Language and Linguistics. 18: 568-572 |
| Meyerhoff M, Walker JA. (2013) An existential problem: The sociolinguistic monitor and variation in existential constructions on Bequia (St. Vincent and the Grenadines) Language in Society. 42: 407-428 |
| Meyerhoff M, Walker JA. (2012) Grammatical variation in Bequia (St Vincent and the Grenadines) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages. 27: 209-234 |
| Walker JA. (2012) Analysing Variation in English. Edited by Warren Maguire & April McMahon Diachronica. 29: 552-557 |
| Hoffman MF, Walker JA. (2010) Ethnolects and the city: Ethnic orientation and linguistic variation in Toronto English Language Variation and Change. 22: 37-67 |