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EDUCATION:
 Ph.D. in Linguistics    Indiana University  (Bloomington, IN) 2011-2014 
  - Focus:   Phonetics, phonology and sociolinguistics
  - Minor:   Finnish language studies
  - Dissertation Title:
   "The sociophonetic and acoustic vowel dynamics of Michigan's Upper Peninusla English"
  M.A. in Linguistics     Indiana University  (Bloomington, IN) 2008-2011 
  - Focus:   General Linguistics and Central Eurasian Studies
  - Finnish and Swedish   ( FLAS Fellowships , 2008-2010)
  B.A. in English     Michigan State University   (East Lansing, MI) 2005-2008 
  - Major:   English,  Secondary Education
  - Minor:   Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)




ACADEMIC POSITIONS and EXPERIENCE:
Independently-taught Courses:
Course Title Course Code Status Location Semester
Historical Linguistics (LIN205) Visiting Assist. Professor UR-Rochester, NY Spring 2015
Language and Social Identity (LIN102) Visiting Assist. Professor UR-Rochester, NY Spring 2015
Intro. to Language Sound Systems (LIN110) Visiting Assist. Professor UR-Rochester, NY Fall 2014
Intro. to Linguistic Analysis (LIN110) Visiting Assist. Professor UR-Rochester, NY Fall 2014; Spring 2015
Laboratory Phonetics (LIN471) Visiting Lecturer MSU-East Lansing, MI Spring 2014
Sociolinguistics (LIN471) Visiting Lecturer MSU-East Lansing, MI Fall 2013
Introduction to Linguistics (LIN401) Visiting Lecturer MSU-East Lansing, MI Fall 2013; Spring 2014
Language and Society [ONLINE] (ENG394) Adjunct Lecturer MSU-Morehead, KY Spring 2013
Language: Culture and Mind [ONLINE] (ENG205) Adjunct Lecturer MSU-Morehead, KY Fall 2012; Fall 2013



Cooperatively-taught Courses (as an Associate Instructor):
Course Title Course Code Supervisor Location Semester
The Ebonics Controversy (LING-C103) Dr. Stuart Davis IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2012
Dialects and Language Variation (LING-C103) Dr. Brian Jose IU-Bloomington, IN Spr. 2012
Intro. to Lingusitic Analysis (LING-L303) Dr. Ken de Jong IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2011
Introductory Phonetics (LING-L541) Dr. Ken de Jong IU-Bloomington, IN Spr. 2011
Intro. to Lingusitic Analysis (LING-L303) Dr. Ken de Jong IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2010


Guest Lecturer:
Course Title Course Code Instructor Location Semester
Methods in Linguistic Research (LING-L501) Dr. Scott Grimm UR-Rochester, NY Fall 2014
Intro. to Linguistic Analysis (LING-L103) Dr. Ken de Jong IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2012
Speech and Voice Science (SL220) Jim Zeigler CCC-SLP NMU-Marquette, MI Spr. 2011
Intro. to Phonetics (LING-L306) Dr. Brian Jose IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2010


Other Positions:
Position Title Employer Supervisor Location Semester
Editor's Assistant Journal of Phonetics Dr. Ken de Jong IU-Bloomington, IN Fall 2011





PUBLICATIONS:
Peer-review Journals:

Rankinen, Wil (2014). “The Michigan Upper Peninsula Vowel System in Finnish-American Communities in Marquette County", American Speech, Volume 89, Number 3, 312-347.



WORKING PAPERS:
Title Co-authors Publisher Submitted Date
"A Bayesian Approach to
Cross-Speaker Vowel Normalization"
Aaron Albin LV&C TBA TBA
"Where'd the Preposition go?
A perceptual-based account of
NULL locative prepositions for younger raters
in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula"
SA AS TBA TBA
“The Entanglement of Dialectal Variety and
Speaker Normalization”
Ken de Jong IULC-WP TBA TBA
“Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Vowel Systems:
Acoustic vowel characteristics of Finnish-and Italian-American communities”
SA LV&C TBA TBA
Note: Abbreviations
AS - American Speech
IULC-WP - Indiana Univeristy Linguistic Club Working Papers
LV&C - Language Variation and Change
SA - Single-authored




UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS:
Title Type Date
“Phonetic and Phonological Charactristics of Susu:
A phonetic and phonological account of a susu vowel and consonant system”
Graduate term-paper 2011
“The Acoustic Characteristics of a Susu Vowel System” Graduate term-paper 2010
“Acoustic Vowel Characteristics of Immigrant-heritage and Language-dominance Effects among Finnish-and Italian-American Communities” Graduate term-paper 2010
“Acoustic Vowel Quality Differences in Speech Tasks: Finnish-and Italian-American Communities from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula” Graduate term-paper 2010
“The Optionality of Directional Prepositions in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula:
A descriptive analysis of a perceptual sentence acceptability-rating task”
Graduate term-paper 2009
“An Upper Peninsula of Michigan Vowel System:
A Preliminary Study"
Undergraduate
term-paper
2009




PRESENTATIONS and PUBLIC INTERVIEWS:
Title Co-authored Site Location Date
“Location and Heritage Effects
on the Vowel Characteristics among Monolingual English speakers
from Michigan's U.P."
SA OSU Symposium Columbus,
OH
April 2013
“Hierarchical Bayesian modeling
of vowel formant data:
Speaker-intrinsic and speaker-extrinsic
approaches compared
Aaron Albin ASA Kansas City,
MO
October 2012
“Where'd the Preposition go?
An account of locative prepositional deletion
in Michigan’s UP speech community"
SA AS Portland,
OR
January 2012
“A weird and peculiar story:
Variation and change in North American adjectives
Sali Tagliamonte
et al.
LSA Portland,
OR
January 2012
“A Bayesian Statistical Approach
to Vowel Normalization”
Aaron Albin NWAV Washington,
DC
October 2011
“The Entanglement of Dialect Variety
and Speaker Normalization”
Ken de Jong LSA Pittsburg,
PA
January 2011
“Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Vowel System:
Finnish-and Italian-American Communities
SA LSA Baltimore,
MD
January 2010
“Sounding Out a Dialect:
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Vowel Systems
SA Iron Mining Museum Negaunee,
MI
August 2009
“Linguistic Patterns in Michigan” Dennis Preston Points North
News Radio
Interlocken,
MI
Febuary 2008
"A Michigan Upper Peninsula Vowel System" SA AS Chicago,
IL
January 2008
“An Upper Peninsula of Michigan Vowel System" SA MSU-UURAF East Lansing,
MI
April 2007
Note: Abbreviations
ASA - Acoustical Society of America
ADS - American Dialects Society
LSA - Linguistic Society of America
MSU-UURAF - MSU University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum
NWAV - New Ways of Analyzing Variation (e.g., NWAV40)
OSU - Ohio State Unviersity (2013 Symposium on "Locating Language")
SA - Single-authored




AWARDS, GRANTS, and HONORS:
Title Sponsor Location Date
Outstanding Associate Instructor Award IU Linguistics Bloomington,
IN
2012-2013
ADS Travel Grant AS Portland,
OR
January 2012
IULC Travel Grant IULC Washington,
DC
October 2011
Linguistic Institute Fellowship LSA Boulder,
CO
Summer 2011
Graduate Research Fellowship Program
(Honorable Mention)
NSF Bloomington,
IN
2010-2011
IULC Travel Grant IULC Pittsburg,
PA
Januray 2010
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship
(Finnish)
FLAS Bloomington,
IN
2009-2010
Finlandia Foundation National Scholarship Award FNN Bloomington,
IN
2009-2010
Center for International Mobility
Travel Scholarship
CIMO: Intensive Finnish program Savonlinna,
Finland
Summer 2009 (II)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
(Swedish)
FLAS Bloomington,
IN
Summer 2009 (I)
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
(Finnish)
FLAS Bloomington,
IN
2008-2009
MSU Outstanding Senior Achievement Award CAL East Lansing,
MI
2007-2008
MSU Undergraduate Research Grant CAL-URI East Lansing,
MI
2007-2008
ADS Presidential Honoree AS Chicago,
IL
January 2008
ADS Travel Grant AS Chicago,
IL
January 2008
Rotary Youth Ambassador RIYEP Taipei,
Taiwan
2004-2005
Note: Abbreviations
ADS - American Dialects Society
CAL-URI - College of A&L Undergraduate Research Initiative
CIMO - Centre of International Mobility
FNN - Finlandia Foundation National
IULC - Indiana Univeristy Linguistic Club
LSA - Linguistic Society of America
MSU-UURAF - MSU University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum
NSF - National Science Foundation
NWAV - New Ways of Analyzing Variation (e.g., NWAV40)
RIYEP - Rotary International Youth Exchange Program
SA - Single-authored




LANGUAGE PROFIECENCIES:
  Native:
    - English
  Converstational:
    - Finnish and Mandarin
  Reading:
    - Finnish
  Structure:
    - Susou,  Swedish,  Spanish
      (i.a., English, Finnish, and Mandarin Chinese)




COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARE and RELATED SKILLS:
 Computational languages:
   [R] Statistical and Graphing language   Statistical testing; module testing;
  graphical generation and simulation
   LaTeX   Documents; presentations
   HTML   Web-designing


  Other Profiecencies:
    SPSS statistical software    Statistical testing;graphical generation
    Praat and WaveSufer    Acoustic software for recording and
   measuring speech
    Microsoft Excel (i.a., Microsoft Office)    Data handling





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