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Works in progress or submitted

2010     Symbolic and structural effects of dialects and immigrant minority languages in explaining achievement gaps. Paper commissioned by the National Research Council/ National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Language and Education. With William Labov.

2010   Whose Words: An Educator’s Guide to English Language Variation in the Classroom. Book manuscript. With Christine Mallinson. Contract pending with Teachers College Press under invitation by James Banks to the Multicultural Education Series.

Refereed publications in periodicals and refereed chapters in books

2009         Communicating about Communication: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educating Educators about Language Variation. Blackwell Compass Interdisciplinary Journal Edition. With Christine Mallinson.

Refereed publications in periodicals and refereed chapters in books 

2009     Standardized Assessment of African-American Children: A Sociolinguistic Perspective. To appear in Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Literacy Education. Farr M., Seloni L., Song, J., eds. Earlbaum Publications.

2009          African American English. The Handbook of African-American Psychology. Neville, H., Tynes, B., and Utsey, S., editors. Sage Publications.

2008         Linguists as Agents for Social Change. Language and Linguistics Compass. 

2008         African-American English: An overview. ASHA Division 14 newsletter. Invited lead article in special edition on African-American language and literacy for the speech language pathologist.

2008         Service Learning as an Introduction to Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Equality, American Speech, Vol. 83.2. Appeared in inaugural “Teaching American Speech” section on pedagogy in linguistics. Co-authored with William and Mary students Jeree Harris, Joe Hayes, Katie Ikeler, and Andrew Squires.

2007         Regional Differences in low-SES African-American Children’s Speech in The School Setting. Language Variation and Change. Vol.19.3. 281-293

2004         Familiarity with “School English” in low SES-African-American Children and its Relation to Early Reading Achievement. Charity, Anne H., Scarborough Hollis, and Griffin, Darion. Child Development, September/October 2004, Volume 75, Number 5. 1-17.

2003          Style-shifting and range of dialect in the formal speech of African-American elementary school children. The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics Vol.9.2, New Ways of Analyzing Variation 31 Proceedings. 27-38.

2002         Parcours individuels dans deux changements linguistiques en cours en français montréalais. Blondeau, Hélène, Gillian Sankoff & Anne Charity. Revue québécoise de linguistique 31(1): 13-38.

2001          Individual roles in a real-time change: Montreal (r->R) 1947-1995. Sankoff, Gillian, Hélène Blondeau & Anne Charity. Etudes et Travaux, 2001,4,Dec. 141-157.

Non-refereed publications

2009     Phonology Workbook. Workbook for PORTALS reading program for struggling readers designed with William Labov. Houghton- Mifflin.

2004         Distinguishing dialect differences from reading errors in oral text reading by speakers of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE). With Scarborough, H. S., Hannah, D., H., & Shore, J. In A. Pincus (Ed.), Tips from the experts.  Long Valley, NJ: International Dyslexia Association, New Jersey Branch. 5 pages.