Charles Boberg, Associate Professor
Specializations: Language Variation and Change, Dialectology, North American English
PhD University of Pennsylvania

Contact information

Email: Charles Boberg
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield, #223
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00 - 5:00 and Wednesdays 2:30 - 5:00 or by appointment (Winter 2010 term)
Phone: 514-398-4869
Web: www.arts.mcgill.ca/linguistics/faculty/boberg/

Major publications

Boberg, Charles. In press. The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Boberg, Charles. 2009. "The Emergence of a new phoneme: Foreign (a) in Canadian English". Language Variation and Change 21/3: 355-380.

Boberg, Charles. 2008. “Regional phonetic differentiation in Standard Canadian English.” Journal of English Linguistics 36/2: 129-154.

Labov, William, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg. 2006. Atlas of North American English: Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change. Berlin: Mouton/de Gruyter.

Boberg, Charles. 2005. "The North American Regional Vocabulary Survey: Renewing the study of lexical variation in North American English." American Speech 80/1: 22-60.