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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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Frequency effects over the lifespan: A case study of Attenborough's r's
This paper uses a small-scale case study of the speech of a single speaker at two points in time to investigate the question of whether …
Laurel MacKenzie
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'Making waves: The story of variationist sociolinguistics', by Sali A. Tagliamonte (review)
Laurel MacKenzie
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The dynamics of variation in individuals
This paper examines the factors conditioning the production of linguistic variables in real time by individual speakers: what we term …
Meredith Tamminga, Laurel MacKenzie, David Embick
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/s/-lenition and the preservation of plurality in Modern Occitan
This paper examines the variable weakening and deletion of /s/ in the Languedocian variety of Modern Occitan, with particular attention …
Laurel MacKenzie
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Variation in English auxiliary realization: A new take on contraction
English auxiliary contraction has received much attention in the linguistic literature, but our knowledge of this variable has remained …
Laurel MacKenzie
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