Thursday, February 23, 2006
2005-2006/038
Linguist at UI March 6 to discuss linguistic
aspects of African-American schoolchildren
URBANA— Anne Harper Charity, assistant professor of English and linguistics at The College of William and Mary, will give a lecture entitled, “System and Region in the English of Low-SES African-American Schoolchildren” on Monday, March 6, at 4 p.m., in Room 403 of Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana,
The talk, sponsored by the U. of I. Department of Linguistics, is free and open to the public.
Charity’s research interests include sociolinguistics, African-American vernacular English, African-American music and intonation, and southern American English.
Charity received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005. She is currently a National Science Foundation Minority Postdoctoral Fellow, and is the founder of the Linguistics Laboratory at The College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Va.
For more information about the speaker: http://ahchar.people.wm.edu/documents/cv.pdf
To read the abstract of Charity’s lecture, go to:
http://webtools.uiuc.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=319
and click on "LINGUISTICS - Anne Harper Charity..."
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