Professor Research

This paper present research for Dr. Steven H. Weinberger as an example of academic

faculty in the field of Linguistics. Dr. Weinberger is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the

Department of English at George Mason University (Weinberger, 2018). He received his Ph.D.

in Linguistics in 1988 from the University of Washington in Seattle (Weinberger, 2018). He has

been teaching at George Mason University for almost thirty years. He taught graduate and

undergraduate level courses in phonetics, phonology, second language acquisition, and

exceptional phonologies (Weinberger, 2018).

Dr. Weinberger published in Linguistic Theory and Second Language Acquisition

journal, Achievements and perspectives in the SLA of speech and Corpus-Based Studies in

Language Use, Language Learning, and Language Documentation (Weinberger, 2018). Most of

his articles are about second language learning and accents (Weinberger, 2018).

Dr. Weinberger is interested in the research of phonology and language sound systems

(Weinberger, 2018). As usually as university professors do, he participates in academic

communities and he is co-editor of Interlanguage Phonology (1987). He is also the principal

investigator and administrator of the speech accent archive (Weinberger, 2018). In this

published archive, he involved his students in providing recordings for different non native

speakers of English.

Dr. Weinberger’s work reflects his passion to Linguistics. He directed most of his focus

to research on second language acquisition and accents that accompany that process. In deed, it

is a norm in graduate studies to mainly direct research to a subcategory of the discipline.

Reference
George MAson University. Steven h. Weinberger. Retrieved from
https://linguistics.gmu.edu/people/weinberg
Weinberger, Steven. (2015). Speech Accent Archive. George Mason University. Retrieved from
http://accent.gmu.edu