PUBLICATIONS
January 2026 "Ethical Expert Practice" Routledge Handbook of Ethics in Forensic Linguistics. Routledge. 254-265
November 2025 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol. 100 (4): 517-529
May 2025 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol. 100 (2): 259-276
November 2024 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol 99 (4): 468-481
August 2024 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol 99 (3): 364-382
February 2024 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol 99 (1): 78-90. Algospeak installment
November 2023 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol 98 (4): 453-470
August 2023 "Among the New Words" American Speech, Vol 98 (3): 296-317
June 2023 “Housing policy and linguistic profiling: An audit study of three American dialects.” Language, Vol 99.2: e58-e85. Winner: Language Paper of the Year 2024
February 2023 “Among the New Words” American Speech, Vol 98 (1): 104-119. Gender & Sexuality installment
December 2022 Bias in Automatic Speech Recognition: The Case of African American English Applied Linguistics with co-author Joshua Martin
August 2022 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, Hughes, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(3) American Speech
May 2022 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, Hughes, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(2) American Speech
February 2022 “Among the New Words” Hughes, Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2022) 97(1) American Speech
September 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(3) American Speech
May 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(2) American Speech
February 2021 “Among the New Words” Zimmer, Wright, & Carson American Speech (2021) 96(1) American Speech
January 2020 Language and Discrimination: Generating Meaning, Perceiving Identities, and Discriminating Outcomes Craft, Wright, Weissler, & Queen Annual Review of Linguistics
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
Journal Publications
Academic Publications
texts available upon request for classroom or research purposes
July 2022 Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
December 2019 Experiments on Linguistic Profiling of Three American Dialects
May 2017 The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media
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
May 2021 Kelly Wright "Some Thoughts About Word Choice" Medium
February 2021 Wright & Weissler Response to Perspectives article: “Toward Racial Justice in Linguistics” Medium