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Degrees
M.A., Linguistics, University of Texas, Arlington, 1992 MA thesis: "Factors Affecting Language Maintenance and Shift in Chitral District, Pakistan"
B.A., Industrial Education, Purdue University, 1981
Current positions
International Language Assessment Coordinator (2006-)
Other experience
South Asia Survey Team (1987-92)
Belize Kriol Translation Project (1993-2001)
Caribbean Survey Team (2001-2004)
Americas Area Survey Coordinator (2004-2005)
Memberships
Society for Caribbean Linguistics (1994-)
Language proficiency
Belize Kriol FSI 2+
Research interests
Sociolinguistics
Selected publications
Publications in SIL International Bibliography
2005. The Song of Kriol: A Grammar of the Kriol Language of Belize. Belize Kriol Project: Belize City.
2004. A Case of Moribund English: Gustavia, St. Barthélemy. English World Wide, Vol.25:2. 217-254.
2004. "SIL International," entry in The Encyclopedia of Caribbean Religion. University of Illinois Press: Champaign, IL.
1997. Bileez Kriol Glassary an Spellin Gide. Belize Kriol Project: Belize City, Belize.1992. "Languages of Chitral, Vol. 5", in the Sociolinguistic Survey of the Languages of Northern Pakistan series. O'Leary, Clare ed. Quad-I-Azam University: Islamabad, Pakistan and the Summer Institute of Linguistics: Dallas, TX.
1996. Orthography Development for Belize Creole. 1994 Mid-America Linguistics Conference Papers, Vol. 2. Ingemann, Frances ed. University of Kansas: Lawrence, KS.
1991. Strategy for Data Collection in Bilingual Communities. Proceedings of the Summer Institute of Linguistics International Language Assessment Conference, 1989. Kindell, Gloria E. ed. Summer Institute of Linguistics: Dallas, TX.
1989. So You Want To SLOPE Someone. International Language Assessment Conference Handbook. Summer Institute of Linguistics: Dallas, TX (The blue Language Survey binder.)
Selected papers presented
2005. "The Kokoy Language of Dominica." Presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE) Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2002. "Moribund English: The Case of Gustavia English, St. Barthelemy." Presented at the 14th Biennial meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics Conference, San Augustine, Trinidad.
2000. "Vowel & Suprasegmental features in Belizean Creole." Presented at the 74th Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, joint session with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, Chicago, IL.
2000. "The Use of Belize Kriol to Improve English Proficiency." Presented at the Fifth International Creole Workshop, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
1997. "The Belize Creole Project: Progress and Plans." Presented at the Third Interdisciplinary Conference, University College of Belize, Belize City, Belize.
1994. "Orthography Development for Belize Creole." Presented at the 10th Biennial meeting of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics, joint meeting with the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics, University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana.
1992. "Factors Affecting Language Maintenance And Shift In Chitral, Pakistan." Presented at the Second International Conference on Maintenance and Loss of Minority Languages, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. | 