Tyler Méndez Kline

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Berkeley

I am a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. Nicole Holliday from UC Berkeley and Dr. Sabriya Fisher from Wellesley College. I am a trained sociolinguist, having been trained under the late Dr. Robert Bayley at UC Davis. My research interests are focused on sociophonetic variation, bilingualism, pedagogy, language ideologies, and human-computer interactions. I am particularly interested in working in contexts of historically marginalized and understudied varieties of language in the U.S., to (1) better understand the link between language use and social interactions from a critical perspective, and (2) bring further recognition of the rich linguistic practices of underrepresented populations.