Betsy Sneller
B456 Wells Hall
619 Red Cedar Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyLinguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Assistant Professor
Linguistics
Biography
Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
Betsy Sneller’s primary research interest is in language variation and change. Her dissertation work focused on the way that dramatic structural sound change (i.e., phonological change) is represented and produced by individual speakers during the change. As a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University, 2018-2020, she used experimental methods to investigate the way that children acquire sociolinguistic and phonological variation. Dr. Sneller is co-director of the MSU Sociolinguistics Lab and the PI of the MI Diaries Project.
Media Mentions
University News
NEH Grant to Develop Open-Source Code for Self-Recording Mobile App
College of Arts & Letters’ Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller was awarded a $99,908 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Humanities Advancement…Read now »
MI Diaries Receives NSF Grant to Support Its Expansion
The MI Diaries project, run by MSU’s Sociolinguistics Lab and led by College of Arts & Letters’ Assistant Professor of Linguistics Betsy Sneller and Associate Professor of Linguistics…Read now »
MSU Linguistics Ascends Rankings as a Solid Choice for Scholarship
Michigan State University’s Linguistics program is ranked among the top places in the field for study, research, and employment…Read now »
MI Diaries Project Sees Seven Team Members Graduate
The MI Diaries project, run by MSU’s Sociolinguistics Lab, is providing MSU students with valuable research experience, and many of those students have been with the project from its beginning…Read now »
The MI COVID Diaries Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0wKn0aJces&feature=youtu.be
COVID-19 has had a major impact on people around the world, but how is the pandemic changing our language and the way we…Read now »
College Welcomes New Faculty and Staff
This semester, the College of Arts & Letters is pleased to welcome 22 new faculty and staff members. Please join us in welcoming the following people to Michigan State University and the…Read now »
Studying How COVID Pandemic Is Affecting Language Change
COVID-19 has had a major impact on people around the world, but how is the pandemic changing our language and the way we communicate? That is the question being studied by a team of researchers…Read now »