Wil A Rankinen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4055066 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wil A Rankinen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wil A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rankinen |
| SIGNATURE | RANKINEN W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Grand Valley State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2098-0061 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Geolinguistic Diffusion of Lexically Enregistered Variants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
This geolinguistic study investigates perceptions of usage frequency and local identity connection for seven distinctive words in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.): camp, chook, choppers, cudighi, pank, sisu, and swampers. Data were collected from 860 participants through an on-line survey, incorporating demographic details and hometown zip codes. Participants’ attitudes were evaluated using two 5-point Likert scales, assessing perceived frequenc…
Apparent-Time Evidence of American Raising in Western and Eastern Lower Michigan
Research Article| December 01 2021 8. Apparent-Time Evidence of American Raising in Western and Eastern Lower Michigan Wil A. Rankinen; Wil A. Rankinen wil a. rankinen is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Grand Valley State University (2015–). He received his Ph.D. and M.A. at Indiana University (2008–14) with a concentration in phonetics and sociolinguistics. As a native to Michigan’s Upper Penin…
The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization
This paper explores the relationship between speaker normalization and dialectal identity in sociolinguistic data, examining a database of vowel formants collected from 88 monolingual American English speakers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Audio recordings of Finnish- and Italian-heritage American English speakers reading a passage and a word list were normalized using two normalization procedures. These algorithms are based on different concept…
Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County
Research Article| May 01 2018 Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County Wil Rankinen Wil Rankinen Grand Valley State University wil rankinen is assistant professor and undergraduate program director in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Grand Valley State University. He received his Ph.D. (2014) and M.A. (2011) in linguistics at Indiana Univ…
The Michigan Upper Peninsula English Vowel System in Finnish American Communities in Marquette County
This article investigates the acoustic properties of the American English vowel spaces of 65 Finnish Americans from Marquette County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP). The author compares the general system of these UP vowel spaces to substrate Finnish and neighboring English vowel systems and examines the subsystems of these UP vowel spaces along the sociolinguistic variables of language dominance, age, sex, and educational attainment to ascert…
The Michigan Upper Peninsula English Vowel System in Finnish American Communities in Marquette County
This article investigates the acoustic properties of the American English vowel spaces of 65 Finnish Americans from Marquette County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP). The author compares the general system of these UP vowel spaces to substrate Finnish and neighboring English vowel systems and examines the subsystems of these UP vowel spaces along the sociolinguistic variables of language dominance, age, sex, and educational attainment to ascert…
Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County
Research Article| May 01 2018 Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County Wil Rankinen Wil Rankinen Grand Valley State University wil rankinen is assistant professor and undergraduate program director in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Grand Valley State University. He received his Ph.D. (2014) and M.A. (2011) in linguistics at Indiana Univ…
The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization
This paper explores the relationship between speaker normalization and dialectal identity in sociolinguistic data, examining a database of vowel formants collected from 88 monolingual American English speakers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Audio recordings of Finnish- and Italian-heritage American English speakers reading a passage and a word list were normalized using two normalization procedures. These algorithms are based on different concept…
The Michigan Upper Peninsula English Vowel System in Finnish American Communities in Marquette County
This article investigates the acoustic properties of the American English vowel spaces of 65 Finnish Americans from Marquette County in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP). The author compares the general system of these UP vowel spaces to substrate Finnish and neighboring English vowel systems and examines the subsystems of these UP vowel spaces along the sociolinguistic variables of language dominance, age, sex, and educational attainment to ascert…
Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County
Research Article| May 01 2018 Lingering Substrate and Encroaching Exogenous Influences on Finnish and Italian Americans’ Vowels in Michigan’s Marquette County Wil Rankinen Wil Rankinen Grand Valley State University wil rankinen is assistant professor and undergraduate program director in the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department at Grand Valley State University. He received his Ph.D. (2014) and M.A. (2011) in linguistics at Indiana Univ…
Apparent-Time Evidence of American Raising in Western and Eastern Lower Michigan
Research Article| December 01 2021 8. Apparent-Time Evidence of American Raising in Western and Eastern Lower Michigan Wil A. Rankinen; Wil A. Rankinen wil a. rankinen is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Grand Valley State University (2015–). He received his Ph.D. and M.A. at Indiana University (2008–14) with a concentration in phonetics and sociolinguistics. As a native to Michigan’s Upper Penin…
The Entanglement of Dialectal Variation and Speaker Normalization
This paper explores the relationship between speaker normalization and dialectal identity in sociolinguistic data, examining a database of vowel formants collected from 88 monolingual American English speakers in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Audio recordings of Finnish- and Italian-heritage American English speakers reading a passage and a word list were normalized using two normalization procedures. These algorithms are based on different concept…
The Geolinguistic Diffusion of Lexically Enregistered Variants in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
This geolinguistic study investigates perceptions of usage frequency and local identity connection for seven distinctive words in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.): camp, chook, choppers, cudighi, pank, sisu, and swampers. Data were collected from 860 participants through an on-line survey, incorporating demographic details and hometown zip codes. Participants’ attitudes were evaluated using two 5-point Likert scales, assessing perceived frequenc…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Vowel (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Formant (3 works) · History (3 works)