Our Dartmouth College research team has been traveling around, interviewing New England natives for the past 10 years as part of our effort to document New England life and language. We are especially interested in your life and language experiences in the time of COVID-19.
We usually interview people on the street but due to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders we are now conducting interviews via video conferencing!
Each phase of this project focuses on a different New England region and social group. In summer and fall 2020, we would like to hear from the Black/African American community in Eastern Massachusetts.
If you are African American and call eastern Massachusetts your hometown, we'd like to hear from you! Help us document the ways in which this pandemic has impacted language and life in your community.
We compensate each participant with a $12 e-gift card for a 45-minute interview.
You must be 18 or older to participate.
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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Dartmouth College and will be an Assistant Professor at Indiana University next year. I research language variation and change during times of social change. I am a mom, an avid hiker, and I love to cook.
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I am a Dartmouth undergraduate student majoring in psychology with a double minor in human-centered design and linguistics. I published a novelette called Fragments and currently conduct independent psycholinguistic research.
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I am from Portland, Jamaica. Outside of my double-major in Geography and African and African American Studies, I'm really interested in language, discrimination and power. I like to listen to music and make foods that remind me of home.
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I am Professor and Chair of Linguistics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. I research language variation and change in underrepresented Indigenous language communities as well as New England English.
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I am from Boston, MA and I'm currently an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College. In my spare time, I love to dance, write, and play music!
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I'm an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College from Albany, NY. I'm a rising sophomore and love music, cooking, and being outdoors.