Research

Publications

2026

Rechsteiner, J. (2026). Social Threat as Motivation for Phonetic Divergence: Evidence From Nonbinary Participants. Journal of Sociolinguistics, josl.70031. https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.70031. [pdf]

Villarreal, D., Rechsteiner, J., Johnstone, B., & Kiesling, S. (2026). Introducing the Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech, a Publicly Accessible, Richly Annotated Corpus of Sociolinguistic Interviews. Language and Linguistics Compass, 20(3), e70038. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70038. [pdf]

2025

Wagner, S. E., Sneller, B., & Rechsteiner, J. (2025). Sociolinguistic research projects as brands. Linguistics Vanguard, 11(1), 459–471. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2024-0099. [pdf]

2023

Rechsteiner, J., & Sneller, B. (2023). The impact of social information on VOT shadowing by nonbinary speakers. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences, 3715–3719. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2023/full_papers/917.pdf. [pdf]

Rechsteiner, J., & Sneller, B. (2023). The Effects of Topic and Part of Speech on Nonbinary Speakers’ Use of (ING). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 29(1), 159–166. https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/58728. [pdf]

2021

Rechsteiner, J., & Sneller, B. (2021, September 13). Building Community in Digital Fieldwork. Digital Fieldwork. https://sigla.georgetown.domains/digitalfieldwork/building-community-in-digital-fieldwork/. [pdf]

Presentations

2026

Villarreal, D. & Rechsteiner, J. (2026). Pos[ ] Gazette and Gian[ ] Eagle: A replication of Guy (1980) with Pittsburgh English. American Dialect Society 2026.

2025

Rechsteiner, J.. (2025). Nonbinary speaker participation in a sound change in progress. NWAV 53. [slides] [abstract]

Rechsteiner, J. & Kanwit, M. (2025). He_i should do his or her_i homework if they_i want a good grade: Variable L2 epicene pronoun usage. NWAV 53. [slides] [abstract]

2023

Rechsteiner, J. (2023). The impact of social information on VOT shadowing by nonbinary speakers. NWAV 51. [slides]

Sneller, B., Wagner, S. E., Barnhardt, A., Rechsteiner, J., Zackerman, C., & Ye, Y. (2023). It’s not the THOUGHT that counts for a LOT of Michigan English sound changes. NWAV 51. [slides]

Wagner, S. E., Sneller, B., & Rechsteiner, J. (2023). Sociolinguistic research projects as brands. NWAV 51. [poster]

2022

Wagner, S. E., Sneller, B., & Rechsteiner, J. (2022). Longitudinal sociolinguistic research projects as brands. Methods in Dialectology XVII. [slides]

Rechsteiner, J. & Sneller, B. (2022). The effects of topic & part of speech on nonbinary speakers’ use of (ING). PLC 46. [slides] [abstract]

2021

Rechsteiner, J. & Sneller, B. (2021). Nonbinary speakers’ use of (ING) across gender-related topics. NWAV 49. [slides] [video]

Rechsteiner, J. & Sneller, B. (2021). Nonbinary speakers’ rates of (ING) stable across conversation topics. UKLVC 13. [abstract] [video]

Furkioti, A. & Rechsteiner, J. (2021). MI Diaries: The Development of a Research Project as a Brand. UURAF 2021, East Lansing. [poster] [video]

Other Work

2025

Villarreal, D. & Rechsteiner, J. (2025). Archive of Pittsburgh Language and Speech documentation. https://djvill.github.io/APLS

2024

Sneller, B., Werner, R., Rechsteiner, J., & Bechler, C. (2024). MiDRF Admin Portal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617857.

Mentored Research

2023

Janice Peng. (2023). Oh, I’m quoting something I don’t like: Usage of “oh” to signal negative stance. Poster presented at Michigan State University Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research (Mid-SURE). Mentors: Jack Rechsteiner and Suzanne Wagner.

Sam Scroggins. (2023). I’m, um, nonbinary: Usage of UM/UH among nonbinary speakers. Poster presented at Michigan State University Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research (Mid-SURE). Mentors: Jack Rechsteiner and Betsy Sneller.

Zach Sebree. (2023). Demographic coding in MI Diaries. Poster presentation at Michigan State University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF). Mentors: Suzanne Wagner and Jack Rechsteiner.

2022

Jayce Garner. (2022). A case study of an audio diarist’s speech formality over time. Poster presentation at Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE). Mentors: Betsy Sneller, Suzanne Wagner, and Jack Rechsteiner.

Olivia Jessner. (2022). Synthesizing signoffs: An exploration of gender’s effect on valediction. Poster presentation at Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE). Mentors: Jack Rechsteiner and Betsy Sneller.