LSA Forums – Feb 2026 Edition – Dr. Dinkin – Local Attitudes, Dialect Perception, and Dialect Change in a Tourist Town

Aaron Dinkin is an associate professor of Linguistics at SDSU. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009, under the supervision of William Labow, and has also held faculty positions at Swarthmore College and the University of Toronto. His research centers on sound change in dialects of American English, especially in upstate New York.