publications

Medford, Kendall . (Under Review). “Introduction: Caribbean languages on the move,” in Ports of Entry: Language in Caribbean Migrations. Kendall Medford, ed. University Press of Mississippi.

Medford, Kendall and Mariana Past. (Under Review). “A Festival of Resistance: Bannzil Kreyòl 2024 and the efforts to preserve Creole in Cuba,” in Ports of Entry: Language in Caribbean Migrations. Kendall Medford, ed. University Press of Mississippi.

Puterbaugh, Benjamin and Kendall Medford. (2025). “The comedic performance of Mock Haitian in Dominican media: A raciosemiotic approach to enregisterment.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.70027

Medford, Kendall. (2025). “Quítate tú pa ponerme yo: Tracing the dialectal pull of reggaetón,” in Puerto Rican Spanish, Reggaetón Style! The (Socio) Linguistics of Urban Music. Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez, ed. Vernon Press.

Medford, Kendall. (2024). “Eso no es Kreyòl”: Linguistic Insecurity among Haitian Creole Speakers in the Dominican Republic”, Journal of Language Contact 17, 3: https://doi.org/10.1163/19552629-bja10087

Ortiz-López, Luis A. and Kendall Medford. (2023). “Haitian Creole in the Caribbean: Exploring Haitian sociolinguistic contact in Cuba and the Dominican Republic,” in Language, Decoloniality, and Social Justice in the Caribbean. Patrick André-Mather, ed. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Medford, Kendall. (2022). “In the Dominican Republic, Language Barriers Complicate Life for Haitian Migrants,” NACLA Online. https://nacla.org/dominican-republic-language-barriers-complicate-life-haitian-migrants