S1 E12: Language, Race & Ethnicity – Nandi Sims

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Today we are joined by Nandi Sims. Nandi is a PhD Candidate at The Ohio State University in the Department of Linguistics. Her primary interests lie in language variation and change stemming from situations of ethnic contact in the US. To explore the variation related to social identities, institutional ideologies, and the hegemonic structure of race, she has conducted research on a number of topics including historical variation in African American Language morphosyntax, English prosodic rhythm comparisons between South Florida ethnicities, and the relationship between the language, ethnicity, and social identity of pre-teens.

Her dissertation is titled "Race, ethnicity, and social groups: Social and linguistic causes of language variation among 6th-grade students at a primarily Black South Florida middle school". Join us in this week's episode to learn more about the concepts regarding language, race and ethnicity, about African-American language, and about language variation in different populations in the US.

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Recorded on 4/3/2021

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