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Sociolinguist, instructor and student: Deborah Waughtal is a budding sociolinguist presently finishing a Master’s in Applied Linguistics at Boston University. Her primary academic interests are in sociophonetics, style shifting, sociolinguistics, and second language acquisition. She also teaches Linguistics and ESL at Showa Women’s Institute in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. In 2015, she co-organized the 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development and co-edited the BUCLD 40 Conference Proceedings (forthcoming). At Boston University, Deb works as a research assistant for the Spanish in Boston Project, a corpus-based study of dialects in contact in Greater Boston, an NSF funded project.
When she is not working on her thesis project or teaching, she enjoys baking, hearing the services at Marsh Chapel, long walks with her dog in the woods, and taking day trips to Maine with her family.
