Jennifer Nycz is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on accent change in mobile speakers of English, the phonetic and phonological impacts of new dialect input on vowel systems, and how place identity influences the way people use language.
Lauren Hall-Lew is Professor and Personal Chair of Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She specialized in phonetic variation and change, with particular interest in the analysis of socioindexical meaning and its potential role in language change.