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“I’ve always spoke like this, you see”: Participle leveling in three corpora of English
Some English verbs use distinct forms for the preterite (i.e., simple past; e.g., I broke the door) and the past participle (e.g., I’ve …
Alicia Chatten, Kimberley Baxter, Erwanne Mas, Jailyn Peña, Guy Tabachnick, Daniel Duncan, Laurel MacKenzie
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Social role effects on English particle verb variation fail to replicate
The English particle verb alternation has been argued to be sensitive to the social role occupied by speakers on radio broadcasts; …
Naomi Lee, Laurel MacKenzie
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Towards an updated dialect atlas of British English
This paper presents the results of a survey of phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic variation in British English, based on over …
Laurel MacKenzie, George Bailey, Danielle Turton
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Regularization in the face of variable input: Children's acquisition of stem-final fricative plurals in American English
From a young age, children go through a stage of leveling irregular forms. They are also known to probability-match variable phenomena. …
Chiara Repetti-Ludlow, Laurel MacKenzie
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New and old puzzles in the morphological conditioning of coronal stop deletion
This paper probes the well-documented morphological effect on coronal stop deletion (CSD, also called /t,d/-deletion), by which there …
Laurel MacKenzie, Meredith Tamminga
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Comparing constraints on contraction using Bayesian regression modeling
This paper has three goals: (1) to document the factors shaping is-contraction in Mainstream American English; (2) to assess the extent …
Laurel MacKenzie
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Assessing the accuracy of existing forced alignment software on varieties of British English
This paper presents an analysis of the performance and usability of automatic speech processing tools on six different varieties of …
Laurel MacKenzie, Danielle Turton
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Perturbing the community grammar: Individual differences and community-level constraints on sociolinguistic variation
The traditional focus of variationist sociolinguistic research is the patterning of language variation at the level of the community, …
Laurel MacKenzie
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What's in a name? Teaching linguistics using onomastic data
This article describes how students can be introduced to the basics of linguistic analysis using personal, product, and place names as …
Laurel MacKenzie
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Variable stem-final fricative voicing in American English plurals: Different pa[ð ∼ θ]s of change
This paper investigates analogical leveling in a small set of English nouns that have irregular plural forms. In these nouns, all of …
Laurel MacKenzie
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