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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Almost like a blueberry jam, but a little more tart. It's really good!

Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm a strawberry preserves kind of person, but recently (with a partner whose family is from Montana) I've gotten into huckleberry jam.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you want to learn about the Detroit Dialect Study from the people who made it, check out our new American Speech Audio Feature: doi.org/10.1215/0003...

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The Detroit Dialect Study: Accessing a Foundational Study on the Social Stratification of American English | American Speech | Duke University Press

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you want to learn about the Detroit Dialect Study from the people who made it, check out our new American Speech Audio Feature: doi.org/10.1215/0003...

doi.org

The Detroit Dialect Study: Accessing a Foundational Study on the Social Stratification of American English | American Speech | Duke University Press

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Perfect! You should throw on the Severance Defiant Jazz playlist!

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I heard both pépé and dédé for grandfathers in my town growing up (nw vermont).

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Now, people thankfully know a little about this project because of Rickford 2014 (doi.org/10.1215/0003...). As Wolfram often points out, there's a canon in sociolinguistics, and it's worthwhile to dig beyond the classics. 7/7

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An Early Study of the Speech of Young Black Children in California: Why It Matters | American Speech | Duke University Press

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There's a lot of work that goes under- or un-cited over time, but this is the kind of work that could have been published at any point in the last 50 years. The Southwest Regional Laboratory for Edu Research and Development was super interesting (even if it ended too soon) 6/n

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Williams closes with this: "Therefore, it is linguists who must make it known, in the words of Labov (1969) that 'we are unanimous in condemning [the views of the verbal deprivation theorists] as bad observation, bad theory, and bad practice' (1969)." RIP Labov :( 5/n

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Importantly: "If linguists are in a good position to set the record straight and do not do so, then it is perhaps not too harsh to judge them passive contributors to institutionalized racism." 4/n

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"For if these theories are incorrect and yet attract a measure of attention among educators, then they contribute to what is coming to be called institutionalized racism." 3/n

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

"If theories of verbal deprivation do not hold water,then it behooves linguists to take the lead in demonstrating the invalidity of such theories." 2/n

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I'm fortunate just to have shared space in the same field as him. I'll be thinking about his academic family.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of the things you learn early on as a sociolinguist is that Bill Labov thought deeply about, and *probably* wrote about, the thing that's interesting to you. I love going back to his early work for offhand comments or footnotes about something he noticed.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

the old map i've used in class had a clearer 'other' color in northwest vermont, where we had to deal with kids on cabbage night.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

Online Resources for African American Language is now available at oraal.github.io!

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The ORAAL Website

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Just had a great (recorded) conversation with Walt Wolfram, Ralph Fasold, and Danica Cullinan about early sociolx research and Walt and Ralph's 60+ year friendship.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

Krishna Boro works on the Boro language gauhati.ac.in/member/arts/...

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

I am really excited to dig into the current volume of Living Languages, called "Awakening Languages", featuring many of my great colleagues from the University of Oregon. scholarworks.umass.edu/livinglangua...

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

"Yeah, I think so. He's the guy who looks like he came in from the woods?" Someone responding to a colleague about whether they've ever met me. Yes, that's me.

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Charlie @crfarrington.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Nice to see some papers/posters using CORAAL at #NWAV51

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