University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
Selected Papers from NWAV 38
Working Papers
Preface
Marielle Lerner
On the Role of Social Factors in the Loss of Phonemic Distinctions
Maciej Baranowski
‘Bad’ Grammar and the Language Faculty
J.K. Chambers
Stop Signs: The Intersection of Interdental Fricatives and Identity in Newfoundland
Becky Childs, Paul De Decker, Rachel Deal, Tyler Kendall, Jennifer Thorburn, Maia Williamson, and Gerard Van Herk
An Eleméntàry Linguistic Definition of Upstate New York
Aaron J. Dinkin and Keelan Evanini
The Gradient Nature of S-Lenition in Caleño Spanish
Richard J. File-Muriel and Earl K. Brown
Representations of Blackness by White Women: Linguistic Practice in the Community versus the Media
Sonya Fix
The Effect of Dialect Features on the Perception of “Correctness” in English-Word Voting Patterns on Forvo.com
Jessica Grieser
Do Speech Evaluation Scales in a Speaker Evaluation Experiment Trigger Conscious or Unconscious Attitudes?
Stefan Grondelaers and Roeland van Hout
Mapping Production and Perception in Regional Vowel Shifts
Tyler Kendall and Valerie Fridland
/s/-Deletion and the Preservation of Plurality in Modern Occitan
Laurel MacKenzie
“It’s Not That Big (Of) a Deal”: The Sociolinguistic Conditioning of Inverted Degree Phrases in Washington, DC
Anastasia Nylund and Corinne Seals
Linguistic Variation and Change in Atlanta, Georgia
Hilary Prichard
Chain Shift Advancement by Children
Emily Sadlier-Brown
Using Acoustic Trajectory Information in Studies of Merger
Michael Scanlon and Alicia Beckford Wassink
Perceptual vs. Grammatical Constraints and Social Factors in Subject-Verb Agreement in Brazilian Portuguese
Maria Marta Pereira Scherre and Anthony Julius Naro