Publications

Guy Tabachnick, Laurel MacKenzie (2025). Flipping the 𝘰𝘯/𝘰𝘧𝘧 switch: Change in progress in the prepositional complements of verbs like 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦. English Language & Linguistics 29(4):672–699.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2025). Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan. In Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research, ed. Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman, 107–138.

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George Bailey, Laurel MacKenzie, Danielle Turton (2025). Lexical variation among mobile speakers: A case study of words for bread in the United Kingdom. In Sociolinguistic Approaches to Lexical Variation in English, ed. Rhys J. Sandow and Natalie Braber, 39–57.

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Molly Cutler, Auromita (Disha) Mitra, Marc Barnard, Jessica Göbel, Laurel MacKenzie (2025). Both (of) the variants show a couple (of) different patterns: Social conditioning of 'of'-variation across multiple linguistic environments. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 31.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 52, 60–69.

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Laurel MacKenzie, Mary Robinson (2025). Spelling out grammatical variation. In English Sociosyntax: Theory, Evidence, Approaches, ed. Daniel Duncan and Mary Robinson, 59–95.

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Betsy Sneller, Laurel MacKenzie, Meredith Tamminga (2025). Bill Labov: Looking back, looking forward. Journal of Sociolinguistics 29(4):309–316.

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Alicia Chatten, Kimberley Baxter, Erwanne Mas, Jailyn Peña, Guy Tabachnick, Daniel Duncan, Laurel MacKenzie (2024). “I’ve always spoke like this, you see”: Participle leveling in three corpora of English. American Speech 99(1):3–46.

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Naomi Lee, Laurel MacKenzie (2023). Social role effects on English particle verb variation fail to replicate. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique 68(2):329–343.

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Laurel MacKenzie, George Bailey, Danielle Turton (2022). Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English. Journal of Linguistic Geography 10(1):46–66.

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Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, Laurel MacKenzie (2022). Regularization in the face of variable input: Children's acquisition of stem-final fricative plurals in American English. Linguistics Vanguard 8(1):249–261.

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Laurel MacKenzie, Meredith Tamminga (2021). New and old puzzles in the morphological conditioning of coronal stop deletion. Language Variation and Change 33(2):217–244.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2020). Comparing constraints on contraction using Bayesian regression modeling. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: Language and Computation 3:58.

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Laurel MacKenzie, Danielle Turton (2020). Assessing the accuracy of existing forced alignment software on varieties of British English. Linguistics Vanguard 6(s1):1–14.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2019). Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 4(1):28.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2018). What's in a name? Teaching linguistics using onomastic data. Language 94(4): e1–e18.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2018). Variable stem-final fricative voicing in American English plurals: Different pa[ð ∼ θ]s of change. Language Variation and Change 30(2): 147–174.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2018). Dialect surveys and student-led data collection. In Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications, ed. Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs and Gerard Van Herk, 151–153.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2017). Frequency effects over the lifespan: A case study of Attenborough's r's. Linguistics Vanguard 3(1):1–12.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2017). 'Making waves: The story of variationist sociolinguistics', by Sali A. Tagliamonte (review). English Language and Linguistics 21(3):566–569.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2016). Production planning effects on variable contraction in English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 44:121–130.

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Meredith Tamminga, Laurel MacKenzie, David Embick (2016). The dynamics of variation in individuals. Linguistic Variation 16(2):300–336.

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Miriam Meyerhoff, Erik Schleef, Laurel MacKenzie (2015). Doing Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide to Data Collection and Analysis. Routledge.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2014). /s/-lenition and the preservation of plurality in Modern Occitan. Journal of Linguistic Geography 2(2):59–73.

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Laurel MacKenzie, Charles Yang (2013). English auxiliary realization and the independence of morphology and phonetics. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 19.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 41, 121–129.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2013). Variation in English auxiliary realization: A new take on contraction. Language Variation and Change 25(1):17–41.

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Laurel MacKenzie (2012). Locating Variation Above the Phonology. Doctoral dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

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Laurel MacKenzie, Gillian Sankoff (2010). A quantitative analysis of diphthongization in Montreal French. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 15.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 37, 91–100.

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Keith Johnson, Christian T. DiCanio, Laurel MacKenzie (2007). The acoustic and visual phonetic basis of place of articulation in excrescent nasals. UC Berkeley PhonLab Annual Report 3, 529–561.

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