Carmen Fought, PhD
Professor of Linguistics
With Pitzer Since: 1998
Field Group: Linguistics
Campus Address: Scott 225
Phone: 909.607.4535
Email: carmen_fought@pitzer.edu
Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., M.A., Stanford University
Expertise Areas
Phonology; bilingual language acquisition; sociolinguistics.
Recent Conferences and Invited Talks
"I'd Better Schedule an MRI: The Linguistic Construction of 'White' Ethnicity." Paper presented at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference in Philadelphia, October 2007.
Recent Public Commentary
Professor Fought was quoted in a January 28, 2008, USA Today article titled "Celebrity Accents: It's All Very Tongue-in-Chic," in which she describes how Americans' bias for Brit-speak is illustrated in the British film Love Actually.