Gaillynn Clements, Lecturing Fellow

Dr. Gaillynn Clements is a socio-historical linguist whose research originally focused on rural Southern United States’s speakers. Her work specifically explored gendered speech ways through social network analysis. She has also worked on pedagogy in linguistics, specifically, linguistic integration and preparedness for graduate students in TESOL and Masters Education programs. She has also researched and published in linguistic discrimination in academia and ADA compliance in linguistics courses. Her current research focuses on linguistic and social markers in fertility narratives. Publications include: Linguistic Discrimination in US Higher Education: Power, Prejudice, Impacts, and Remedies (Routledge, 2021) and Linguistic Foundations for Second language Teaching and Learning (Cambridge UP, forthcoming 2025).

Contact Info:

Office Location:	953 Muddy Creek Road, Clemmons, NC 27012
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gaillynn-Clements/research https://focus.duke.edu/clusters-courses/exploration-genetics-and-genomics

Teaching (Spring 2026):

• LINGUIST 201.01, INTRO TO LINGUISTICS Synopsis

  Languages 109, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 201.01)

• LINGUIST 201.02, INTRO TO LINGUISTICS Synopsis

  Allen 306, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 201.02)

Education:

D.Phil.

University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

2014

Keywords:

Creole dialects, English • Developmental genetics • Dialectology • Dialects • Dialects--Syntax • English language--Dialects--Syntax • English language--Syntax • Evolutionary genetics • Evolutionary Linguistics • Genetic literature • Genetics • Historical linguistics • Interviewing in sociolinguistics • Language and Gender • Linguistic Discrimination • Social Network Methodology • Sociogenomics • Sociolinguistics • Sociolinguistics--Methodology • Sociolinguistics--Network analysis • Sociolinguistics--United States • Syntax

Recent Publications

1. Sands, K; Petray, M; Clements, G; Santelmann, L, Linguistic Foundations for Second Language Teaching and Learning Bridging the Disciplinary Divide Online ISBN: 9781009226363 Hardback ISBN: 9781009226387 (January, 2026), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781009226387  [abs]