Marie Tano
she/her
Please visit my new website @ mariemmanue.github.io!
email: mtano [AT] stanford [DOT] edu
Research Projects
The Great Migration from a Linguistic Perspective:
Variation of /ai/ monophthongization
among Black women in Chicago, 2020
research project funded by Northwestern's Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP), 2020
advised by Dr. Annette D'Onofrio
subject area(s): sociophonetics, perception, linguistic variation, dialects, American regional speech
paper available here for viewing
Publications
“It’s a Whole Vibe”: testing evaluations of
grammatical and ungrammatical AAE on Twitter, 2021
subject area(s): sociolinguistics, perception, online language, social media, African-american English
paper available here for viewing
Academic Coursework
computational methods
relevant graduate courses— ln278: Programming for Linguists
relevant undergraduate courses— LGCS124 - Corpus Linguistics
sociolinguistics
How Language Crosses the Color-Line, ft. Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, 2021
relevant graduate courses— ln258: Analysis of Variation
relevant undergraduate courses— lgcs112: language & society (spring 2021)
general linguistics
Palauan noun paradigms: Abstract underlying representations and syllable structure, 2020
relevant undergraduate courses— LGCS108: phonology (Fall 2020) & LGCS104: phonetics (Fall 2020)
bilingualism and bidialectalism
Exploring the different factors affecting cognitive functionalities in bilingual aphasiacs, 2019
relevant undergraduate courses— PSYC096: Neuropsychology (Spring 2020), LGCS185: Topics in Cognitive Science: Bilingual Cognition (Spring 2020), LGCS130: Cognition and the Brain (Spring 2019) & LGCS115: Bilingualism (Fall 2019)
anti-Blackness and critical race theory
Spoken word, hip-hop and rap: Afrofuturism in Black Oral tradition, 2020
defining the Linguistic Fungibility of Black AAVE Speakers, 2019
War on Poverty, head start programs and Anti-Blackness, 2019
relevant undergraduate courses— POLI189: Libidinal Economy & Race (Spring 2021), ENGL124: Afrofuturisms (Spring 2020), PSYC150: Psychology of the Black Experience (Fall 2019) & POLI142: Marxist and Post-Marxist Political Thought (Fall 2018)