Alyssa Severn, a master's candidate in the English Department in the area of Applied English Linguistics, is the winner of a 2010 Presidential Honorary Membership in the American Dialect Society.
The announcement came from American Dialect Society President Connie Eble and recognizes Severn's excellent record as a graduate student and her work for the Dictionary of American Regional English.
Severn has been evaluating and selecting audio segments from DARE's voluminous collection, to be posted to the website "American Languages: Our Nation's Many Voices Online."
Severn was nominated by Luanne von Schneidemesser of DARE and Professor Eric Raimy of the English Department.