Jennifer Mittelstaedt, Ph.D.

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics

Teaching Interests

• Language Variation and Change
• Sociolinguistics
• Morphology
• American English Dialects
• Sociolinguistic Field Methods
• Structure and History of English (and Other Germanic Languages)
• World Englishes
• Phonetics
• Historical Linguistics

Courses Taught

• History of English
• Structure of English
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Introduction to Linguistics

Research Interests

• American English Dialects
• Morphological Theory
• Language Variation and Change (particularly in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology)
• Sociolinguistic Field Methods
• The Relationship between Linguistic Theory and Sociolinguistics
• Chain Shifts and "Mergers"
• First and Second Language Acquisition of Variation
• Hypercorrection

Contact

• jhm@pdx.edu