Rate My Professor Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University in the Department of Linguistics, College of Humanities. She earned a PhD in Linguistics. Her research interests include sociolinguistics, teen language, language and identity, language and ethnicity, language in diaspora populations, and languages and cultures of the Pacific. Johnson teaches courses related to sociolinguistics, varieties of English, research methods, and English usage in a variationist framework. Her office is located at 4040 JFSB, Provo, UT 84602, with phone (801) 422-2938. As part of the linguistics faculty, she contributes to both teaching and research in language variation and social aspects of language use.

Lisa Johnson's publications demonstrate her focus on phonology, ethnic markers in speech, and language in specific communities. Key works include "Nauruan classifiers" published by Brigham Young University Department of Linguistics in 2002; "New perspectives in Nauruan phonology" in Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium 25(1), 6 in 1999; "A strategy for correcting errors in automated formant extraction" in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150(4_Supplement), A356-A356 in 2021; "Evidence for greater marking along ethnic boundaries" in Human Nature 35(3), 307-322 in 2024; and "Vowel Pronunciation as an Ethnic Marker: Pacific Islander Teens in Salt Lake City, Utah" in Publication of the American Dialect Society 110(1), 56-96 in 2025. According to her Google Scholar profile, her work has garnered 17 citations. Johnson has also been listed among new graduate faculty at BYU, supporting advanced studies in linguistics.