PUBLICATIONS
June 2023 “Housing policy and linguistic profiling: An audit study of three American dialects.” Language, Vol 99.2: e58-e85. Project MUSE
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May 2023 “Among the New Words” American Speech, Vol 98 (1): 104-119. Project MUSE
December 2022 Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Case of African American English Applied Linguistics with co-author Joshua Martin
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August 2022 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, Hughes, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(3) American Speech
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May 2022 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, Hughes, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(2) American Speech
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February 2022 “Among the New Words” Hughes, Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(1) American Speech
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September 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(3) American Speech
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May 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(2) American Speech
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February 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(1) American Speech
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January 2020 Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes Craft, Wright, Weissler, & Queen Annual Review of Linguistics
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2017 "Accounting for Vox Populi. Adjusting the Cost-Benefit Model of Language Planning by Incorporating Network Analysis in the Ghanaian Context", in: "Cultural and Linguistic Transition explored. Proceedings of the ATrA closing workshop Trieste, May 25-26, 2016", Ilaria Micheli (ed.), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 291-305
Academic Publications
Journal Publications
texts available upon request for classroom or research purposes
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July 2022 Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
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December 2019 Experiments on Linguistic Profiling of Three American Dialects
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May 2017 The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media
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December 2014 No Ordinary Wind: Ghanaian Linguistic Identity Within the English Superstructure: A Report of a Senior Study
Open Access Publications
July 2021 Kelly Wright "People Keep Asking Me About Woke" Medium
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May 2021 Kelly Wright "Some Thoughts About Word Choice" Medium
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February 2021 Wright & Weissler Response to Perspectives article: “Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics” Medium