REFEREED EDITORIAL WORK
JOURNALS
Editorial Boards
American Speech; Ampersand.
2015
Language and Communication 42 — Religion as a Sociolinguistic Variable. [TOC]
2014
Double issue of Language and Linguistic Compass- Sociolinguistics [with Chris Cieri] [TOC]
Language and Communications 35(1) New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic identity in North America [with Lauren Hall-Lew] [TOC]
2010
Special issue of American Speech 85(2) [with Thomas Purnell] [TOC]
Special issue of Journal of English Linguistics 38(3)[with Thomas Purnell] [TOC]
PADS#94 [with Erik Thomas] [TOC]
2002
Special issue of Journal of Pragmatics 34 [TOC]
1992
Special Double Issue of Language and Communication [TOC]
*TOC indicates an available Table of Contents.
OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Forthcoming
Sociophonetics: A Student Guide. Second edition. [ed., with Marianna di Paolo & Christopher Strelluf]. Routledge. [TOC available on request]
Dimensions of Linguistic Variation [ed. with Lauren Hall-Lew, Chris Cieri, and Katie Drager] [TOC available on request]
2011
Sociophonetics: A Student Guide. [ed., with Marianna di Paolo]. Routledge.(250+xii pp) [TOC] [Order Form]
2010
AAE speakers and their participation in local sound changes: A comparative study. Publications of American Dialect Society #94. [ed., with Erik Thomas] Duke University Press.(225+viii pp.) [TOC]
1984/1989
The Private Lives of English Words. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London. (333+xxxii pp.) Simultaneously, at Gale Research Co.: Detroit [with L. Heller & P. Humez]; 2nd edition, 1989
1973/1982
A Quantitative Study of Sound Change in Progress. US Regional Survey: Philadelphia. (352+50 pp.) [with W. Labov & R. Steiner]; 2nd ed., 1982.
REFEREED ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Forthcoming
‘Introduction [with Lauren Hall-Lew], Religion & Religiosity [with David Bowie] in Lauren Hall-Lew, Chris Cieri, Katie Drager & Malcah Yaeger (eds) Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. Oxford University Press. Paper in PDF
2020
‘Prolegomenon to a study of biblical prosody’ in A. Koller, M. Z. Cohen and A. Moshavi (eds) Biblical, Semitic and Jewish Studies in honor of Richard Steiner, pp. 182-205. Bialik Institute and Yeshiva University Press. Paper in PDF
2018
‘Alternative sources of panel study data’ pp.53-72. in the book Panel Studies of Variation and Change Routledge: NYC. [https://www.routledge.com/Panel-Studies-of-Variation-and-Change/Wagner-Buchstaller/p/book/9781138903906]
2015
Change in Real Time [with David Bowie] — in P. Honeybone & J. Salmons (eds) Handbook of Historical Phonology:OUP. 603-619.
2013
Prolegomenon for an analysis of dialect coding conventions for data sharing. [with Chris Cieri] in A. Barysevich, A. D’Arcy, & D. Heap (eds) Methods in Dialectology. Bamberg Series: Lang. pp189-204.
2012
Christopher Cieri, Malcah Yaeger-Dror Toward the Harmonization of Metadata Practice for Spoken Languages Resources LREC 2012: 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Istanbul, May 21-27. SpeechCorpora 2012: Workshop on Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research. Available: Paper in PDF
2011
Chapters on corpus development, corpus analysis & sociophonetics of vowel analysis [with Marianna di Paolo & Alicia Wassink]; variation in /r and /L/ [with Eleanor Lawson, Margaret Maclagan, Jim Scobbie and Jane Stuart Smith]; and of prosody [with Z.Fagyal] in Sociophonetics: A Student Guide, Routledge.
Sound judgements: Perception of indexical features in children’s speech [with Gerry Docherty, Paul Foulkes, Ghadda Khatab]; in Preston & Niedzielski (eds) Sociophonetic Reader. Walter de Gruyter, Inc., New York. pp.327-356.
The sociophonetics of prosodic contours on NEG in three language communities: teasing apart socio-, -linguistic and phonetic influences on speech [with Shoji Takano, Lauren Hall-Lew, Tania Granadillo]; in Preston & Niedzielski (eds) Sociophonetic Reader [TOC],133-176. Mouton de Gruyter:Berlin.[PDF]
2010
Introductory Chapter in PADS #94, Duke University Press, [with Erik Thomas] [TOC]
2003
Situational variation in intonational strategies. In C. Meyer (ed.)Corpus Analysis: Language Structure and Language Use, 209-224, Rodopi: Amsterdam, [with S. Deckert and L. Hall-Lew]
2001
Primitives for the analysis of register. In P. Eckert & J. Rickford (eds.), Style and Sociolinguistic Variation, 170-185. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
1996
Phonetic evidence for the evolution of lexical classes: The case of a Montreal French vowel shift. In G. Guy, C. Feagin, J. Baugh, and D. Schiffrin (eds.), Towards a Social Science of Language, 263-287. Benjamins: Philadelphia.
Intonation and Register Variation, In J. Arnold, R. Blake, B. Davidson, S. Schwenter & J. Solomon (eds.), Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory and Analysis, 243-260. CSLI: Stanford.
1994
Phonetic evidence for sound change in Quebec French. In P. Keating (ed.), Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form. Papers in Laboratory Phonology 3, 267-292. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
1991
Changing realizations of A in (a)tion in relation to the front-A back-A opposition in Quebec French. In P. Eckert (ed.), New Ways of Analyzing Sound Change, 127-184. Academic Press: N.Y., [with W. Kemp].
1990
Phonetic constraints on sociolinguistic variation. In J. Edmondson, C. Feagin, & P. Mühlhäusler (eds.), Development and Diversity: Linguistic Variation across Time and Space, 35-70. SIL: Austin
1989
Patterned symmetry in a Montreal French vowel shift. In R. Fasold & D. Schiffrin (eds.), Language Change and Variation, 59-84. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 52) Benjamins: Philadelphia.
1988
Sound Change. In Ammon, Dittmar & Mattheier (eds.), Handbook of Sociolinguistics II, 1591-1603. de Gruyter: Berlin.
1986
Changements en chaîne dans le français parlé à Montréal. In D. Sankoff (ed.), Diversity and Diachrony, 223-38. Benjamins: Philadelphia.
1980
A linguistic and social description of final consonant cluster simplification in Montreal French. In R. Shuy & A. Shnukal (eds.), Language Use & the Uses of Language, 12-40. Georgetown University Press:Washington, D.C., [with W. Kemp & P. Pupier.]
REFEREED ARTICLES IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS
2015
Review of ‘r-atics 3’ by Alessandro Vietti and Lorenzo Spreafico. Linguist List 26.1175.
Introductory article, in Yaeger-Dror (ed), Religion as a Sociolinguistic Variable. Language & Communications 42. (PDF)
2014
Introductory article, in Yaeger-Dror & Cieri (eds), Metadata for the Analysis of Sociolinguistic Variation.
Language and Linguistic Compass-Sociolinguistics 8.
Coding for Religion, in Language and Linguistic Compass-Sociolinguistics 8:577-589.
Introductory article, in Hall-Lew & Yaeger-Dror (eds) New Perspectives on Ethnicity in Sociolinguistic Variation. Language and Communications 35(2).
Teaching and Learning Guide for Speech Variation, Utility and Game Theory. Language and Linguistic Compass-Sociolinguistics 8: 230-242. {M.Dror, D. Granot, M Yaeger}
2013
Speech variation, Utility and Game Theory. Language and Linguistic Compass-Sociolinguistics. 7: 561-79.
[M. Dror, D. Granot, M. Yaeger-Dror]
2010
Introductory article in Yaeger-Dror & Purnell (eds) American Speech 85 (2)
Introductory article in Yaeger-Dror & Purnell (eds) Journal of English Linguistics 38 (3)
2006
Presidential use of negation. Texas Linguistic Forum 45(Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Symposium about Language and Society – Austin), 187-194. [with Lauren Hall-Lew]
2002
Register and prosodic variation, a cross language comparison. Journal of Pragmatics 34:1495-1536.
Multi-modality in girls’ game disputes. Journal of Pragmatics. 34:1621-49, [with the Goodwins].
It’s not or isn’t it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies. Language Varation & Change. 14:79-118, [with Lauren Hall-Lew and Sharon Deckert].
2000
Disagreement, contraction and dialect: Evidence from a large corpus of American English. CLIC 2. 49-59, [with Sharon Deckert].
1998
Factors influencing the contrast between men’s and women’s speech. Women and Language 21:40-46.
1997
Contraction of negatives as evidence of variation in register-specific interactive rules. Language Variation & Change 9:1-38.
1996
Register as a variable in prosodic analysis: the case of the English negative. Speech Communication. 19:39-60.
1993
Linguistic data solving social psychological questions: The case for (resh) as a measure of ethnic self-identification. Israel Social Science Research 9: 109-160.
Linguistic analysis of dialect ‘correction’ and its interaction with cognitive salience. Language Variation and Change 5:189-224
Critical Review: E. Ben-Rafael & S. Sharot (1991) Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israeli Society. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 12: 352-358.
1992
Communicative Accommodation: A new perspective on ‘Hypercorrect’ Speech — Introduction. Language & Communication 12:181-193.
Lexical Classes in Montreal French. Language and Speech 35: 251-293 [with W. Kemp].
1991
Linguistic evidence for social psychological attitudes: Hyperaccommodation of (r) by singers from a Mizrahi background. Language & Communication11:309-31.
1989
Sound change in real and apparent time. York Papers in Linguistics 13:141-54.
1988
The influence of changing group vitality on convergence toward a dominant norm. Language & Communication 8: 285-305.
1987
‘Scuse me wait a minute’:Directive use in Israeli Hebrew. Linguistics 25: 1127-63, [with E. Sister].
Language, dialect and society: a review article. Language & Communication 6: 277-292.
1985
Intonational prominence on negatives in English. Language & Speech 28: 197-230.
1977
‘… PI QUE à Montréal’, Recherches sur le français parlé 1: 87-99 [with A. Giacomi and H. Cedergren].
MEDIA
http://talkbank.org/data/CABank/CallFriend/: Aligned transcriptions of CallFriend conversations for parallel corpora in American English (engn, engs), Japanese (japn), and Spanish (span, spac); aligned with the sound files from LDC; sound and transcriptions maintained at CMU’s talkbank.
REFEREED CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ORGANIZER [in last 5 years]
2016
LSA satellite workshop on ‘Preparing your Corpus for Archival Storage‘ [with Christopher Cieri]
2014
ICLASP, Hawaii. Session on The Linguistic Study of Language and Attitudes [with Katie Drager]
2012
LSA satellite workshop on ‘Coding for Linguistic Archive Preparation’ [with Christopher Cieri]
LSA, Portland. Satellite Session on Data Archiving [with Christopher Cieri.]– to appear in LLC-Sociolinguistics
LSA, Portland. Symposium on New Frontiers in analysis of Ethnicity and Lg Variation. [with Greg Guy]–recently published in Language & Communications [with Lauren Hall-Lew]
2011
NWAV40, Washington. Panel on demographic coding for sociolinguistic corpus archive preparation
[with Chris Cieri].
2006-2010
NWAV Organizer of workshops on Best Practices in Sociophonetics. [with Marianna di Paolo]
2008
ICLASP session organizer [with George Ray]. Tucson. – AAE and accommodation.
[Speakers: Malcah Yaeger-Dror, George Ray, Tom Purnell, Gerard vanHerk, Maeve Eberhardt].
•LSA/ADS/CEDL Session organizer [with Erik Thomas].1/08. – Symposium on AAE vs. urban koiné Vowel Phonologies. [Papers on NYC, Pittsburgh, Houston, Milwaukee and Detroit].
2007
•NWAV/LSA/ADS/CEDL Session organizer [with Erik Thomas].1/08. – Symposium on AAE vs. southern Vowel Phonologies. [Papers on Louisiana, NC, suburban Georgia & Ohio].
REFEREED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS [in last 5 years]
2018
Georgetown University Roundtable — https://gurt.georgetown.edu/GURT2018–Game Theory, Accommodation and Strategic Sociolinguistic Variation (with M.Dror)
2017
Methods in Dialectology XVI, Tokyo. —http://pj.ninjal.ac.jp/Methodsxvi/—Strategic Sociolinguistic Variation: Game Theoretical Enrichment of Accommodation Theory (with T.Vance & M. Dror)
2016
LSA, 90th meeting in Washington, DC – Demographic coding for must be adapted to permit corpus re-visiting and sharing, Satellite Workshop Presentation
NWAV45, Vancouver, BC – New/Old Horizons in Multilinguistic Research, Workshop Presentation.
NWAV45, Vancouver, BC -Poster: Call Grandma! On collecting and analyzing intergenerational spontaneous phone calls (with Ana Caravalho, Marta Ramirez, Miriam Rodriguez, and Eric Willbanks)
2014
ICLASP14, Honolulu.Organizer and Discussant for Symposium on Language Attitudes [with Katie Drager]
New Methods in Dialectology XV, Groningen. Presenter at Workshop : Panel studies:Challenges, food for thought and ways forward [with Chris Cieri]
2012
LSA, Portland. Discussant for Satellite Session on Linguistic Archiving.
LSA, Portland. Discussant for Symposium on New Frontiers in analysis of Ethnicity and Lg Variation.
[with Greg Guy]
20102011
NWAV40, Washington. Discussant for Satellite Session on Linguistic Archiving.
NWAV39, San Antonio, Workshop on Best Practices in Sociophonetics
Analyzing Rhythm I [With Zsuzsanna Fagyal]
Analyzing Rhythm II [With Zsuzsanna Fagyal] Presentation Slides in PDF format http://papers.ldc.upenn.edu/#2011[Presentation 1] [Presentation 2] [Handout] [Zipped Prosody File][zipped timing file]
2009
IPRA. Melbourne IPrA, Melbourne. Predisagreements in different cultural settings
[with Shoji Takano, Carol Rinnert]
LSA, San Francisco. Perception of ‘r’, a cross-dialect comparison.[PPT]
[with Paul Foulkes, Dom Watt, Tyler Kendall, Dan Johnson, Jillian Oddie, Philip Harrison] [zipped (r) presentation]
2008
NWAV, Houston. Perception of ‘r’ [with Paul Foulkes, Dom Watt, Tyler Kendall, Jillian Oddie, Philip Harrison] [zipped (r) presentation]
ICLASP [Intl. Conference on Language and Social Psychology.] Tucson 7/08. AAE and accommodation. Conclusions.
Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam 4/08. Sound Judgements: Perception of indexical expressions in children’s speech. [with Paul Foulkes, Gerry Docherty and Ghada Khattab].
BAAP [British Assn of Acoustic Phoneticians] Sheffield 3/08. Variation in American rhoticity.
Linguistics Society of America. Chicago 1/08. – Conclusions. Regional variation in the importance of the divide between AAE and other vowel phonologies.
Linguistics Society of America. Chicago 1/08. – The effect of informational and interactive factors on the prosodic prominence of negation [with Nancy Hedberg]
RECENT PRESENTATION
TECHNICAL REPORTS
| 2010 | White paper providing background of social factors relevant for Phily ingroup-defined clusters. |
| 2010 | ‘Answer to Peter Ladefoged on the problem of sociolinguistic variation in English’, Technical Report, US ARPA/SUR Note, classified (4pp.) |
| 2004 | ‘Forensic Dialectology.’ Lincoln Laboratories [with J. Campbell, W. Campbell, D. Reynolds, P. Torres]. |
| 1992 | ‘Prosodic Varitation in Naturally Occurring Discourse.’ Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech. IRCS Technical Report #92-37:139-150 [with Richard Oehrle]. |
| 1978 | ‘Montreal French Vowel Durations.’ Rapport Technique, EP80-R-8, Ecole Polytechnique. (12pp.) JASA 63:S87(A) [with M. Bourdeau]. |
| 1975 | ‘Statistical analysis of vowel harmony’, TR No. 580, Centre de Recherches Mathematiques: Universite de Montreal. (25pp.) [with D. Sankoff and H. Cedergren]. |
| 1975 | ‘Problems in the vowel phonology of Montreal French’, EECS Research Report: UC Berkeley (20pp.) |
| 1975 | ‘The problem of sociolinguistic variation in English’, EECS Research Report: UCBerkeley, & Technical Report, US ARPA/SURE Note, classified [with Michael O’Malley]. |
| 1974 | ‘Prosodic Variation in Naturally Occurring Discourse.’ Proceedings of the IRCS Workshop on Prosody in Natural Speech. IRCS Technical Report #92-37:139-150 [with Richard Oehrle]. |
| 1974 | ‘Speaking style: some phonetic realizations and their significance’, Penn Working Papers in Linguistic Change I, 1 (60 pp.) |