Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Berman, Elise, Rebecca Roeder, and Dmitry Tereshenko. 2023. “Neocolonial Englishes and Linguistic Inequality: Marshallese language and education in the diaspora.” Micronesian Educator 33: 14-41.
  • Gardner, Matt Hunt and Rebecca Roeder. 2022. “Phonological mergers have systematic phonetic consequences: PALM, trees, and the Low Back Merger Shift” Language Variation and Change 34, 1: 29-52.
  • Roeder, Rebecca, Daniela Araujo-Jones, and Elizabeth R. Miller. 2020. “Grammar in Communicative Language Teaching: Teacher Beliefs about Theory versus Practice.” International Journal of English
    Language Teaching 8, 4: 45-64.
  • Roeder, Rebecca, Sky Onosson, and Alexandra D’Arcy. 2018. “Joining the Western Region: Sociophonetic Shift in Victoria.” Journal of English Linguistics 46, 2: 87-112.
  • Roeder, Rebecca and Bryan Walden. 2016. “The Changing Face of Dixie: Spanish in the Linguistic Landscape of an Emergent Immigrant Community in the New South”. Ampersand 3: 126-136.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2014. “The Canadian Shift in Non-Urban Southeastern Ontario: Transmission or Diffusion?” Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 20, 060012. Available at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/poma/14/1/10.1121/1.4866376
  • Roeder, Rebecca and Matt Hunt Gardner. 2013. “The Phonology of the Canadian Shift Revisited: Thunder Bay and Cape Breton,” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 19, 2: Article 18. Available at: http://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol19/iss2/18
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2012. “The Canadian Shift in Two Ontario Cities.” Special Issue of World Englishes: Autonomy and Homogeneity in Canadian English 31,4: 478-492. Guest editors Stefan Dollinger and Sandra Clarke.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2012. “Definite Article Reduction and the Obligatory Contour Principle in York English.” Transactions of the Philological Society 110,2: 225-240.
  • Roeder, Rebecca and Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz. 2010. “The Canadian Shift in Toronto.” Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics 55,3: 387-404.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2010. “Northern Cities Mexican American English: Vowel Production and Perception.” Special Issue of American Speech: Accommodation to the Locally Dominant Norm 85,2: 163-184. Guest editors Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Thomas Purnell.
  • Tagliamonte, Sali and Rebecca Roeder. 2009. “Variation in the English Definite Article: Socio-Historical Linguistics in t’Speech Community.” Journal of Sociolinguistics 13,4: 435-471.
  • Preston, Dennis, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh and Rebecca Roeder. 2009. “L1 and L2 accents: Where the Action Is.” Lengua y migración/Language and Migration 2,1: 5-20.
  • Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn and Rebecca Roeder. 2007. “Mexican American English in context: Accommodation to other available norms in urban Michigan.” Linguistica Atlantica 27/28: 71-75.
  • Higgins, Christina, Mary Thompson, and Rebecca Roeder. 2003. “In search of a profound answer: Mainstream scripts and the marginalization of advanced-track urban students.” Linguistics and Education 14,2: 195-220.

Book chapters

  • Roeder, Rebecca, Miller, Elizabeth R., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar. 2019. “Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness about Texting Practices.” In P. Bou-Franch & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions. Palgrave Macmillan. Peer-reviewed.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2010. “Effects of consonantal context on the pronunciation of /æ/ in the English of speakers of Mexican heritage from south central Michigan.” In A Reader in Sociophonetics,  Nancy Niedzielski and Dennis R. Preston (eds). Mouton de Gruyter. Peer-reviewed.
  • 2004. “Language in the Mid-Atlantic region.” In Encyclopedia Series American Regional Cultures, Robert Marzec (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood, 255-284.

Additional Publications

  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2022. Review of Kirk Hazen (ed.), Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century, American Speech 97, 2: 215-220.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2019. Review of Erik Thomas, Mexican American English: Substrate Influence and the Birth of an Ethnolect, Journal of English Linguistics 47,4: 360-363.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2015. Review of Charles Boberg, The English language in Canada: Status, history and comparative analysis, and Sandra Clarke, Dialects of English: Newfoundland and Labrador English, World Englishes 34,3: 502-504.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2014. “Talking about Accent: The Canadian Shift and Canadian Raising.” Contact Magazine: Teachers of English as a Second Language Association of Ontario 40,4: 26-30.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2012. “South of the Border with the Canadian Shift.” Invited blog entry for Strathy Language Unit Blog, April 20, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
  • Asahi, Yoshiyuki, Stephanie Kelly, and Rebecca Roeder. 2009. Report on the 13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, University of Leeds, England, August 4-8. Dialectologia 2: 113-126.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2009. “The effects of phonetic environment on English /æ/ among speakers of Mexican heritage in Michigan.” Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 31.
  • Roeder, Rebecca and Lidia-Gabriela Jarmasz. 2009. “The lax vowel subsystem in Canadian English revisited.” Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 31.
  • Roeder, Rebecca. 2009. “Lexical exceptionality in Yorkshire English.” Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 30.
  • Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn and Rebecca Roeder. 2007. “Hispanic English in context: Accommodation to other available norms in urban Michigan.” Linguistica Atlantica [Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Moncton, New Brunswick, August 1-5, 2005] 27/28: 71-75.
  • Higgins, Christina, Rebecca Roeder, and Mary Thompson. 2001. “Critical Thinking and Practices of Participation: Mainstreaming ESL Students into the Classroom Community.” University of Wisconsin-Madison Working Papers in Linguistics, 2: 29-47.