Dr Marisa Brook
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Email
marisa.brook@essex.ac.uk -
Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872286
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Location
4.207, Colchester Campus
Profile
Qualifications
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PhD University of Toronto, (2016)
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MA University of Toronto, (2011)
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BA (Honours) Cornell University, (2009)
Appointments
University of Essex
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Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics, University of Essex (1/10/2023 - present)
Other academic
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Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Toronto (1/7/2018 - 30/6/2023)
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Victoria (1/11/2017 - 31/8/2018)
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Assistant Professor, Linguistics and Languages, Michigan State University (16/8/2016 - 15/8/2017)
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Foundations of Sociolinguistics (LG114)
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Sociolinguistics (LG218)
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Language and Gender (LG220)
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English Language in the media (LG222)
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Forensic Linguistics (LG364)
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English in the British Isles (LG353)
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Sociolinguistic Theory (LG532)
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MA Dissertation (LG981)
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Sociolinguistic Perception (LG374)
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Research methods for language and linguistics (LG213)
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Project: Linguistics (LG831)
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Group Project: Linguistics (LG832)
Publications
Journal articles (11)
Brook, M. and Blamire, E., (2023). Language play is language variation: Quantitative evidence and what it implies about language change. Language. 99 (3), 491-530
Brook, M., (2023). As if, as though, and like in Canadian English. English World-Wide. 44 (3), 381-402
Brook, M. and Tagliamonte, SA., (2023). Subject relativewhoin Ontario, Canada: Change from above in a transplanted ecology. Journal of Linguistic Geography. 11 (1), 25-37
GARDNER, MH., DENIS, D., BROOK, M. and TAGLIAMONTE, SA., (2021). Be like and the Constant Rate Effect: from the bottom to the top of the S-curve. English Language and Linguistics. 25 (2), 281-324
Nagy, N. and Brook, M., (2020). Constraints on speech rate: A heritage-language perspective. International Journal of Bilingualism, 136700692092093-136700692092093
Brook, M., (2020). I feel like and it feels like: Two paths to the emergence of epistemic markers. Linguistics Vanguard. 6 (1), 31-46
Denis, D., Gardner, MH., Brook, M. and Tagliamonte, SA., (2019). Peaks and arrowheads of vernacular reorganization. Language Variation and Change. 31 (1), 43-67
Brook, M., Jankowski, BL., Konnelly, L. and Tagliamonte, SA., (2018). ‘I don't come off as timid anymore’: Real‐time change in early adulthood against the backdrop of the community. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 22 (4), 351-374
Brook, M., (2018). Taking it up a level: Copy-raising and cascaded tiers of morphosyntactic change. Language Variation and Change. 30 (2), 231-260
Brook, M., (2017). Interactive Name Databases as an Introduction to Social Factors and Graph Interpretation. American Speech. 92 (2), 264-278
Brook, M. and Tagliamonte, SA., (2016). Why Does Canadian English Use try to but British English Use try And? Let's Try and/to Figure It Out. American Speech. 91 (3), 301-326
Book chapters (2)
Brook, M. and Moulton, K., (2023). Locating the locative in English pseudo-locativewhere-relatives. In: Non-Interrogative Subordinate Wh-Clauses. Oxford University PressOxford. 438- 460. 0192844628
Brook, M., (2023). Sociolinguistics in Canada. In: The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics Around the World. Routledge. 28- 38. 9781032056128
