Courses Taught
- LING 232: Language and Society
- LING 233: Language and Mind
- LING 390: Introduction to Linguistics
- LING 391: Introduction to Applied Linguistics
- LING 392: Structure of the English Language
- LING 407: Senior Seminar (Language and Thought)
- LING 410/510: Selected Topics (Language Variation and Change; Psychology of Reading)
- LING 411/511: Syntax
- LING 418/518: Morphology
- LING 419/519: Language Typology
- LING 420/520: Historical/Comparative Linguistics
- LING 432/532: Sociolinguistics
- LING 435: Theory and Practice of Applied Linguistics
- LING 481/581: World Englishes
- LING 490/590: History of the English Language
Research Interests
- American English Dialects
- Morphological Theory
- Language Variation and Change (Morphology and Syntax)
- Sociolinguistic Field Methods
- The Relationship between Linguistic Theory and Sociolinguistics
- First and Second Language Acquisition of Variation
- Hypercorrection
- Multilingualism and Multidialectalism in the Portland Metropolitan Area
- Linguistic Landscape Studies
Representative Publications
- Mittelstaedt, J. (2007). Apparent-time change in the Smith Island auxiliary verb system. In Y. Matsumoto, D. Yoshima, O. Robinson, & P. Sells. (Eds.), Diversity in language: Perspectives and implications. Stanford: CSLI.