Joey Stanley

@joeystanley.com

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Sociolinguist at BYU. American English (Utah, Georgia, and Latter-day Saints), mostly vowels, some methods. Organist, bread maker, fan of succulents, beginning knitter. joeystanley.com

A screen recording of me updating my website in various places to say "associate professor" instead of "assistant professor" because I got tenure!
Gif of Frodo at Mount Doom saying, "It's done."
A montage of a bunch of short clips from movies and TV shows. All contain words like mountain, gluten, Scranton, and words with unstressed /tən/. In all cases, the actors use a glottal stop and a syllabic nasal.
An knit scarf in progress, a little less than a foot long, with a rather complex cable and lace pattern.
A calendar of January with a sketch of a timber arch in 1924 and cars from the period driving under it.
Reasons for refusal included… one gentleman who did not “believe in universities.”
A hank of purple yarn.
Screenshot of a portion of a student's homework assignment: "*side note, Dr. Stanley I think this assignment may have cured my deep hatred for phonetics as I actually enjoyed this??? Thank you!!!!!"
Still of the cartoon Grinch with the caption "noise, noise noise!!"
Photo from campus looking up at a nearby mountain. There is a large Y on the mountain. The foothills are in shade, the sun shines on the middle, and the mountaintop is shrouded in a cloud. A rainbow is visible on the cloud.
Screenshot of “ running the meeting and will leave some food in the coffee room for you” with a dictation symbol
A basic histogram and density plot next to a violin plot of the same data, with the words "PLOT TWIST" on top.
An awkward selfie of me holding an ice cream come in front of MSU's Dairy Store.
An iPhone notification saying “Joey’s AirPods Pro” need charging.
A view from an office window overlooking BYU campus building. Some smoke coming off mountains in the background.
A references section with nothing but works by Labov.
A selfie with a months worth of facial hair.
A laptop, external monitor, and iPad into a three-monitor setup. At a kitchen table at a nice Airbnb.
The remains of Gazerbeam from the Incredibles
Old Captain America, saying, "No, I don't think I will."
A spectrogram of "bolth" with LTH-affrication.
Shelves with hundreds of cassette tapes lined up.
A hand drawn line graph with a general upward trajectory. As bedtime gets later, the number of "points" goes up. The "points" are explained in a legend below, but they're basically a proxy for bedtime.
Screenshot of a Microsoft Word error message: The custom dictionary is full. The word was not added.
A picture looking outside with a little bit of snow on the ground with moderate snowfall.
A data visualization showing that the typical number of turns required to finish a solo game of Candyland. Two distributions are shown and when triple color cards are added, the over number is slightly lower.
A data visualization showing that the typical number of turns required to finish a solo game of Candyland is between 10 and 25 or so, with a long tail extending to over 100 turns.
Picture of a reservoir with 20K white geese in the distance starting to fly.
Me standing on a table at the front of a classroom mid-lecture with the caption, “You have an accent!”
Me wearing a scarf in a French knot style.
In my OPINION, you need to support your congregations singing and you can’t do that with no mixtures and no 2’s. Obviously it’s gonna be quote on quote loud for you from where you sit. It’s an organ. Have you ever heard a pipe organ in church buildings?😉Of course it’s supposed to be quote on quote loud.😁
The movie poster for "Love Actually" but changed to "Labov Actually" with his face pasted over everyone else's and fun changes throughout like "very romantic, very comedy" changed to "very rhotic, very stratified."
The book “Conversations with Strangers” by William Labov and Gillian Sankoff.
The spine and back cover of a book in contrasting purple and green colors.
Several copies of "Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language" with Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt as editors.
A image from the Wayside cartoon. Vibrant colors, simple design, exaggerated body proportions.
Three Gollum Jades (Crassula Ovata) about 8–10 inches tall.
A boule of white bread with a huge amount of splits on top indicating a lot of rise in the oven.
Happy sad meme: 27 Bsky notifications; 27 email notifications
Screenshot of a file structure, showing multiple folders, each with an index.qmd file highlighted.
A network plot showing three distinct clusters. One contains "pool", "who'll", "duel", and "fool." Another contains "dole", "poll", "pole", "whole", "hole", and "bowl." the last contains "pull", "bull", and "full" more strongly connected to each other, each of which is weakly connected to "dull" and "hull", which are strongly connected to each other.