Charlie Farrington

Charlie Farrington is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. His research focuses on sociolinguistic variation and change in dialects of American English. Recently, he has worked on segmental variation in varieties of African American Language. Additionally, with Tyler Kendall, Charlie is one of the developers of the Corpus of Regional African American Language (CORAAL), the first public corpus of AAL data, and maintains the Online Resources for African American Language (https://oraal.uoregon.edu).

As part of this work, he is interested in the preservation and access of audio recordings that can benefit future linguistic work. Charlie’s research has appeared in several journals including American Speech, Language Variation and Change, and the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.