Alicia Beckford Wassink

Alicia Beckford Wassink
TitleProfessor
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisA Sociophonetic Analysis of Jamaican Vowels (1999)
Doctoral advisorPam Beddor and Lesley Milroy
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
Sub-disciplineSociolinguistics, acoustic phonetics, language ideology, Social network (linguistics), language contact (specifically creolistics, dialect contact and Koineization), language change
InstitutionsUniversity of Washington
WebsiteUW Faculty Page

Alicia Beckford Wassink is a Jamaican-American linguistics professor at the University of Washington. As of 2025, she serves as the vice president (and president-elect) of the Linguistic Society of America. Her primary area of study is sociolinguistics, and she has historically focussed on linguistic practices in Jamaica. Later in her career, she began working to a greater degree on technological bias in automated speech recognition systems, linguistic practices among Yakama people (largely in English rather than Ichishkíin Sínwit (Sahaptin)), and Pacific Northwest English.

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