University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
The University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL) are published by the Penn Graduate Linguistics Society, the organization of linguistics graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania.
PWPL publishes two volumes per year:
- Proceedings of the annual Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC)
- Selected Papers from New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV)
In addition, we publish an occasional volume of working papers written by students and faculty in the department.
Current Issue: Volume 28, Issue 2 (2022) Selected Papers from NWAV 49
Working Papers
Preface
Aini Li and Gwendolyn Hildebrandt
An Analysis of the Yeísmo Merger in Córdoba, Argentina: A synchronic co-existence of all diachronic processes of lleísmo to yeísmo sound change
Carolina Archer and Brendan Regan
Hearing Hebrew Pharyngeals: Experimental evidence for a covert phonemic distinction
Si Berrebi, Noa Bassel, and Roey J. Gafter
Creaky, She Spoke: Examining f0, Vocal Creak, and Perceptions of Young Women’s Professionalism
Katie A. Conner
Adjusting to the New Normal(ization): Adapting Atlas of North American English Benchmarks to Lobanov-Normalized Data
Aaron J. Dinkin
Dialect on Trial: Raciolinguistic ideologies in perceptions of AAVE and MAE codeswitching
Sharese King, Charlotte Vaughn, and Adam Dunbar
Topic- and Stance-based Style Shift of North Korean Speakers Living in South Korea
Jungah Lee, Kaori Idemaru, and Charlotte Vaughn
The Effect of Vowel Height on the Nasalization of Postposed Determiners in Haitian Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen)
Christopher Legerme
Towards an Empirically-based Model of Age-graded Behaviour: Trac(ing) linguistic malleability across the entire adult life-span
Johanna Mechler, James Grama, Lea Bauernfeind, Mirjam Eiswirth, and Isabelle Buchstaller
A Social Meaning Perspective on Vowel Trajectories: The FEEL-FILL Merger among African Americans
Zion Mengesha
Conditioned Variation: Children Replicate Contrasts, not Parental Variant Rate
Iris E. Nowenstein, Anton K. Ingason, and Joel Wallenberg
Effect of Accent Perception on the Perception of Professionalism
Sabrina Piccolo and Melissa Baese-Berk
Intralinguistic and Crosslinguistic Variation in the Turn-taking Organization Between Deaf-blind Signers: new evidence from Bay Islands Sign Language
Fae Rocketship, Kristian Ali, and Ben Braithwaite
Order of Operations in Sociophonetic Analysis
Joseph A. Stanley
The Development of Indexicality: Perceptual evidence from 4- to 18-year-olds
Charlotte Vaughn and Kara Becker
Ideologies of Intelligibility Onscreen: The Sociolinguistics of Intralingual Subtitling
Jessie Yu, Molly Purtill, Lily Carroll, Sara Carter, Jessica Taylor, and Abby Walker