Chad Hall
LINGUISTICS RESEARCHER AND LECTURER
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Mailing Address:
B-320 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Road
East Lansing
MI 48824
U.S.A.
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Fall Semester Office Hours:
Tuesdays: 2:30-3:30pm EST
Wednesday: 5-6pm EST
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Email:
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CV: Here
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Hi, I'm Chad!
My name is Chad Hall and I am a British linguist currently living in the Metro Detroit Area, U.S.A. I am currently completing my PhD in Linguistics at Michigan State University. I am a graduate of University College London and the University of Oxford. My primary research interests are in Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Language Contact, particularly the acquisition of local dialectal phonetic features by second language speakers, the relation between dialect attitude and speaker dialectal features and the phonetics-phonology interface. My research can be accessed here.
EDUCATION
2017-2022
PhD Linguistics Student, Lecturer and Researcher
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
I am currently completing my PhD in Linguistics at MSU, hoping to pursue my interests in Sociolinguistics, Phonetics and Language Contact further. My supervisor is Dr. Cristina Schmitt.
2015-2016
Master of Studies - General Linguistics and Comparative Philology
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
I graduated in 2016 with a Masters Degree in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from Wolfson College, Oxford. I worked extensively with Professor John Coleman and Dr. Mary Baltazani, writing two papers on /æ/-tensing and British Asian English.
2012-2015
Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
I graduated in 2015 with a First Class Honours Bachelors Degree in Linguistics from University College London. My final thesis was on Multicultural London English and my thesis supervisor was Dr. Bronwen Evans.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Lecturer in Linguistics
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
I am an instructor (lecturer) at MSU for LIN 200 - Introduction to Language. The course teaches the building blocks of Linguistics, including Morphology, Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Syntax and Semantics. I am also an instructor for LIN 225 - Language and Gender. Additionally, I am a TA for CSD 333 - Oral Language Development and for UGS 200H - Bending and Breaking Reality
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Graduate Researcher
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
I was a Research Assistant for Dr. Laura Dilley in 2017, assisting her in research involving child-directed speech and African American Vernacular English. I am currently a Research Assistant for Dr Eric Hunter.
RESEARCH
Multicultural London English
I have run sociophonetic fieldwork in the London Borough of Newham to discover if Cockney is losing territory to Multicultural London English, as media have suspected, in inner working-class London. The vowels of young vs old speakers in the area yielded interesting conclusions.
British Asian English
I have also run sociophonetic corpus fieldwork in Bradford, West Yorkshire on the production of rhotic consonants by Punjabi-English bilinguals. Analyzing just this variant gave an insight in to the nature of L2 local phonetic feature acquisition and the relationship between attitude and dialect. Work to be published in 2019.
Testing the P-Map
I have recently been conducting research testing the hypothesis of the P-Map that that attested phonological patterns vary depending on phonological context due to differences in the perceptual similarity of two phonological contrasts in different contexts, and that the knowledge of these relative perceptibilities are used to explain cross-linguistic patterns of phonological typology.
The DLAE Corpus
I am currently compiling the first speech corpus of Lebanese American English speakers from Dearborn MI, the largest ethnic enclave of Arab Americans in the United States.