Dr. Robert Englebretson's Rice Web Page

Contact Information

Office: Herring Hall 206 Office Hours: Thurs. 2:30-4:00pm, and by appointment. Office Phone: 713 348-4776 E-mail: reng {at} rice.edu

Classes

Here are links to syllabi and web pages for current and recent courses I'm teaching at Rice.

Current Semester (Fall 2012) Linguistics/Anthropology 200, Introduction to the Scientific Study of Language Linguistics 404, Research Methodologies and Linguistic Theories Other Courses from Previous Semesters Linguistics/Anthropology 300, Linguistic Analysis Linguistics 405, Discourse Linguistics 407-408, Field Methods (Kimeru), Fall 2010-Spring 2011 Linguistics 557, Seminar on Identity, Social Interaction, and Grammar, Spring 2010 Linguistics 409, Research on Braille Linguistics 557, Seminar on Grammar and Social Interaction, Fall 2006 Linguistics 407-408, field Methods (Sinhala), Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Linguistics 557, Seminar on Stancetaking in Discourse, Fall 2003

Information about Recent Publications

A PDF of my 2009 article on IPA Braille: Englebretson, Robert. 2009. “An overview of IPA Braille: an updated tactile representation of the International Phonetic Alphabet.” Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39 (1): 67-86. (Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association.)

A link to the announcement of my 2007 edited volume Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity, Evaluation, Interaction published by John Benjamins Publishing (October 2007), and a review of it posted on the Linguist List. This is an edited volume based on the Tenth Biennial Rice Linguistics Symposium which I organized in early 2004.

A link to the announcement of my 2003 book Searching for structure: the problem of complementation in colloquial Indonesian conversation (John Benjamins Publishing), and a review of it posted on the LinguistList.

Links to information on Volume III and Volume IV of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (co-edited with John W. Du Bois of UCSB) published in 2004 and 2005 by the Linguistic Data Consortium. These transcripts and audio files are also available for free access at the Talkbank web site.

A link to the Proceedings from the Workshop on Sinhala Linguistics (co-edited with Carol Genetti of UCSB).

Current information on the IPA Braille project: a revised and updated version of the braille IPA, developed in conjunction with the International Council on English Braille.

Instructions and JAWS character maps for modifying the JAWS For Windows screen reader to read Unicode IPA characters.

General Research Areas

• Discourse and Grammar
• Colloquial Indonesian
• Conversational English
• Austronesian Linguistics
• Discourse/Conversation Analysis
• Sociolinguistics
• Functional approaches to language
• Audio Field Recording and Recording Technology
• Discourse Transcription
• Braille