Rachel Burdin

Rachel Burdin is an Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire in the Department of English. Her research focuses on variation in intonation, particularly in Jewish languages and contact situations. She has extensively studied Jewish English intonation, including its production, perception, and social meaning, using methodologies like participant observation, acoustic analyses, perceptual experiments, and media studies.

• B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, Ohio State University

Her work examines intonational meaning, language contact, and the role of Yiddish in Jewish identity formation, especially in smaller Jewish communities. She has published in journals such as Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, and Lingua, often collaborating with colleagues on cross-linguistic prosodic studies.

Notable awards include the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She has taught courses including Sociolinguistics Survey, Phonetics and Phonology, Linguistic Field Methods, and Advanced Research Experience, with a focus on prosody, language variation, and Jewish languages.