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I'm an Assistant Professor of Sociolinguistics at Michigan State University . With Suzanne Wagner , I'm the co-director of the MSU Sociolinguistics Lab . I'm a quantitative sociophonologist -- what does that mean? First, it means I study phonology (sounds!) - with a particular focus on phonological variation and change. I look at the sociolinguistic aspects of sound variation: how it is affected by the macrosocial (like how an entire city is changing its pronunciation over time) as well as the microsocial (