Earl Brown

Research Interests

I enjoy learning about why language variation exists and the patterns with which language varies. I also have started to collaborate with other authors on researching questions dealing with second language acquisition and other questions dealing with legal linguistics.

Teaching Interests

I love teaching students how to use technical tools and computer programming to answer questions about language use. I often teach students how to use Python for text processing, and a variety of tools for speech processing. I also love showing students the wonder that is the R programming language for data wrangling and data visualization, and sophisticated statistical tests.

Education

• Hispanic Linguistics, , University of New Mexico (2008)
• Spanish Linguistics, , Brigham Young University (2003)
• Spanish, , Brigham Young University (2001)

Honors and Awards

• Faculty Fellow, Humanities Center, BYU (2020 - 2023)

Memberships

• American Association of Applied Linguistics (2013 - Present)
• American Association for Corpus Linguistics (2011 - Present)
• Linguistic Society of America (2009 - Present)
• New Ways of Analyzing Variation (2006 - Present)
• Linguistic Society of the Southwest (2004 - Present)

Professional Citizenship

• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, John Benjamins (2024 - 2024)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Large public university in the US (2024 - 2024)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Lingua (2024 - 2024)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Language Variation and Change (2023 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2023 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Languages (2023 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Applied Sciences (2023 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences (2022 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (2022 - 2023)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology (2022 - 2022)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Language Variation and Change (2022 - 2022)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Languages (2022 - 2022)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, The Handbook of Usage-based Linguistics (2022 - 2022)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, PLOS ONE (Journal) (2021 - 2021)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Second Language Studies (2021 - 2021)
• Officer (specify in Other), Educational Testing Services (2021 - 2021)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory (Journal) (2021 - 2021)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of French Language Studies (2021 - 2021)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2020 - 2020)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, PLOS ONE (Journal) (2020 - 2020)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (Journal) (2020 - 2020)
• Officer (specify in Other), Educational Testing Services (2020 - 2020)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, BYU Studies (2019 - 2019)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship (2019 - 2019)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Review of Cognitive Linguistics (Journal) (2019 - 2019)
• Committee/Council Member, Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies (2019 - 2019)
• Other, Educational Testing Services (2019 - 2019)
• Conference-Related Role, Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies (2018 - 2018)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Edited volume Recent Advances in the Study of Spanish Sociophonetic Perception (2018 - 2018)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium Selected Proceedings (2018 - 2018)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (2017 - 2017)
• Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Language Variation and Change (2017 - 2017)
• Conference-Related Role, Conference on Second Languages and Cultures: Theory, Practice, and Instructional Strategies (2017 - 2017)

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