Aleka Akoyunoglou Blackwell joined the MTSU English department in 2001. She teaches courses in linguistics in the English Language Linguistics concentration in the English major as well as the interdisciplinary minor in Linguistic Studies.  She is the founder of the Annual MTSU Linguistics Olympiad (www.mtsu.edu/lo) and serves as a coach for the US team at the International Linguistics Olympiad (https://ioling.org/). Dr. Blackwell teaches courses in introductory linguistics, syntactic theory, English phonetics and phonology, lexical semantics, lexicography, and English grammar. Her research explores lexical acquisition, the structure of the mental lexicon, and vocabulary assessment.

Recent Publications

Blackwell, A. A. (2023) A Linguistic Guide to the Structure of American English (Preliminary Edition). Cognella Academic Publishing, San Diego, CA.

Blackwell, A. A. (2019). A cluster analysis approach to assessing vocabulary and targeting intervention. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, 1, e103. https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-7t3m-c874 

Blackwell, A. A. & Flipse, J. (2019). An item-response theory analysis of the Verb Subordinates Test. Selected Papers on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from 23rd ISTAL, Thessaloniki 31 March – 2 April 2017, 45-59.  https://doi.org/10.26262/istal.v23i0.7320

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