Bruce Southard is currently editing materials for The Linguistic Atlas of Oklahoma, an autonomous project that is one component of the larger Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada.  His primary research interest is in the area of dialectology. He has published articles dealing with such diverse subjects as the language of science-fiction fan magazines, the incorporation of English loan words into Korean, and pronunciation variation in coastal North Carolina. His presentations before scholarly organizations have covered such topics as the acoustical analysis of speech, dialect variation in Oklahoma, and the language of professional wrestlers. A Senior Bibliographer for the MLA International Bibliography, he has contributed to the annual Linguistics volume since 1979.

Degrees
B.A. Texas Tech University
M.A. Purdue University
Ph.D. Purdue University

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
History and Structure of the English Language
Dialects of American English
Descriptive Linguistics

Courses Taught
6605: Discourse Analysis
6530: Descriptive Linguistics
5502: Structure of English: Syntax and Semantics
5501: Structure of English: Phonology and Morphology
5500: Linguistic and Cultural History of the English Language
3760: Linguistic Theory for Speech Clinicians
3710: Advanced English Grammar
2710: English Grammar
2700: Introduction to Language Studies
1200: Composition
1100: Composition

Selected Publications and Presentations
"Pronunciation Variation in Eastern North Carolina." In Cynthia Bernstein, et al., eds. Language Variety in the South Revisited (University of Alabama Press, 1997), pp. 188-96.

“An Acoustical Analysis of Raven I. McDavid, Jr.’s Pronunciation of Vowel Norms for the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada,” Journal of English Linguistics 24 (December 1996): 332-42.

"Orthographic Representation and Resyllabification of English Loan Words in Korean," Language and Speech 37 (July-Sept 1994): 259-81. [With Ji Young Nam]

"Elements of Midwestern Speech in Oklahoma." In Timothy Frazer, ed. Heartland English (University of Alabama Press, 1993), pp. 229-43.

"The Linguistic Atlas of Oklahoma and Computer Cartography," Journal of English Linguistics 16 (March 1983): 65-77.

E-mail & Website Links
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