Reaching through variation | Robert Kennedy | TEDxUCSB

In this talk, Professor Robert Kennedy describes how slight differences in speech, stemming from things like gender, race, or age, can lead to largely unnoticed discrimination. His argument: let this variation be.
Robert Kennedy is a linguistics professor at UCSB, whose primary interests involve reduplication across languages, as well as the study of phonetic and phonological properties of vowels in English dialects. His recent work includes research on aspects of California English, and the relationship between the geological factors and phonological properties. He has over 10 publications since earning his Ph.D. in 2003, which most recently include “Chain shifting and centralization in California vowels: An acoustic analysis. American Speech.” and “Nicknames. In John R. Taylor (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Word.”
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Great Professor! I've had him for so many classes and 100% recommend catching his lectures if you can.

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Great talk! One of the best professors in the Linguistics department at UCSB!

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