Lauren Hall-Lew
Biographic Data
| ID | 216783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren Hall-Lew |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall-Lew |
| SIGNATURE | HALL-LEW L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3111-0352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
You Have to Keep Fighting
In this interview, John R. Rickford reflects on his career working on sociolinguistics in Guyana and the United States. The interview focuses on sociolinguistics and social justice, with particular focus on the potential for linguistic expertise in legal contexts. He addresses the concept of the creole continuum, and the concept of the conflict theory of social class, advocating for the importance of both. The interview also touches on Rickford's…
Why San Franciscans Used to Sound Like New Yorkers
San Francisco English has been described as dialectologically distinct from the rest of California, as indicated in the earliest studies (DeCamp 1953) up through The Atlas of North American English (Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2006). Just as Carmichael (2024 [this volume]) describes for New Orleans, the evidence suggests that vowel changes in San Francisco English “defied straightforward classification into neighboring dialect areas.” However, the dis…
Phonetic cues to depression
Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of acoustic cues to depression is focused on how phonetic variables can be used by medical professionals as tools t…
Feeling disabled
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
The Lothian Diary Project
The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participat…
Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners
This study reports the results of a crosslinguistic matched guise test examining /s/ and pitch variation in judgments of sexual orientation and nonnormative masculinity among English, French, and German listeners. Listeners responded to /s/ and pitch manipulations in native and other language stimuli (English, French, German, and Estonian). All listener groups rate higher pitch guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than lower pitch guises. …
Individuals, communities, and sound change
Do individual differences affect sound change? Traditional approaches to phonetic and phonological change typically downplay differences between the individuals who make up a speech community that is undergoing change, but this has been questioned in recent years in a number of ways from within several distinct traditions of research. The articles in the Glossa Special Collection to which this article is an introduction consider the extent to whi…
Sociophonetic perspectives on stylistic diversity in speech research
Sociolinguistic data collection traditionally includes interviews, reading passages, and word lists (Labov 1972). Researchers have increasingly sought out elicitation tasks that have the benefits of tasks based on reading aloud (e.g., studying infrequently occurring variables; controlling for linguistic factors; eliciting the same lexical items across participants) while also eliciting styles more comparable to interview speech (see Drager 2018).…
Northern Arizona Vowels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Northern Arizona Vowels Lauren Hall-Lew; Lauren Hall-Lew lauren hall-lew is a reader in linguistics and English language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, she received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Arizona in 2002, where her pilot study of northern Arizona English vowels was first written up as a class ter…
Accommodation or political identity
Phonetic variation among Scottish members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard, 2006) or political identity (e.g., Hall-Lew, Coppock, & Starr, 2010). Drawing on a year's worth of political speeches (2011–2012) from 10 Scottish members of the UK Parliament (MPs), we find no acoustic evidence for the adoption of a Southern English low vowel system; rather, we find that vowel height is signi…
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
Between California and the Pacific Northwest
English in the Western United States has been described as largely homogenous, primarily based on the bot/bought merger and its contrast with the Northern Cities and the South (Labov 1991). However, as the current volume demonstrates, differentiation within Western US English can be found, based on certain distinct features. One example is San Francisco English, where a delayed acquisition of the low back merger has led to San Francisco English b…
New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic identity in North America
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data
Norsemen, Normans, and Now
Review Article| May 01 2011 Norsemen, Normans, AND Now: A BOOK FOR Today's ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY Student:the English Language: A Historical Introduction NORSEMEN, NORMANS, AND NOW: A BOOK FOR TODAY'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY STUDENT: The English Language: A Historical Introduction By Barber, Charles; Beal, Joan C.; Shaw, Philip A.2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 306. ISBN: 978-0-521-85404-7; $85.00 (pbk $29.99) La…
Beyond the 2nd generation
The concept of immigrant generation is complex. Americans use the ordinal designations first-, second-, third-, even ‘1.5’-generation to refer to individuals' varying relationship to their family's moment of immigration. But these terms are much more fluid in practice than the rigidity of the numbers implies, and the nature of that fluidity is changing over time. Furthermore, different waves of immigration mean different experiences of generation…
Ethnicity and Sociolinguistic Variation in San Francisco
California’s San Francisco Bay Area has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the United States, and ethnicity is an integral aspect of any research on language use in the region. This article gives a brief social history of San Francisco with respect to settlement patterns since the 1850s’ gold rush, paying particular attention to Chinese Americans, who are argued to play an especially distinctive role in the city’s history and c…
Ethnicity and Sound Change in San Francisco English
Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese
Reviewed by: Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese: A study of the language communities, the phonological systems, and the phonological developmentsby Ming Chao Gui Lauren A. Hall-Lew Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese: A study of the language communities, the phonological systems, and the phonological developments. By Ming Chao Gui. (LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics 28.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2001. Pp. 147. ISBN 3895866350. $70.20 (Hb). Following Gui’s p…
Kunming Chinese (review)
Reviewed by: Kunming Chinese by Ming Chao Gui Lauren A. Hall-Lew Kunming Chinese. By Ming Chao Gui. (Languages of the world/Materials 340.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2000. Pp. 111. ISBN 3895866342. $34.50. This is a detailed grammar of the variety of Mandarin spoken by approximately four million people in Kunming, the capital city of China’s Southwestern province. The structure of Kunming Chinese has been influenced by the cultural and linguistic di…
It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies
In analyzing not -negation variation in English it becomes clear that specific strategies are used for prosodic emphasis and reduction of not in different social situations, and that contraction strategies vary independently of prosodic reduction. This article focuses on the factors influencing contraction strategies that are clearly dialect related and attempts to tease out those factors that are related to register and speaker stance. First, we…
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data
Ethnicity and Sociolinguistic Variation in San Francisco
California’s San Francisco Bay Area has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the United States, and ethnicity is an integral aspect of any research on language use in the region. This article gives a brief social history of San Francisco with respect to settlement patterns since the 1850s’ gold rush, paying particular attention to Chinese Americans, who are argued to play an especially distinctive role in the city’s history and c…
Accommodation or political identity
Phonetic variation among Scottish members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard, 2006) or political identity (e.g., Hall-Lew, Coppock, & Starr, 2010). Drawing on a year's worth of political speeches (2011–2012) from 10 Scottish members of the UK Parliament (MPs), we find no acoustic evidence for the adoption of a Southern English low vowel system; rather, we find that vowel height is signi…
Feeling disabled
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners
This study reports the results of a crosslinguistic matched guise test examining /s/ and pitch variation in judgments of sexual orientation and nonnormative masculinity among English, French, and German listeners. Listeners responded to /s/ and pitch manipulations in native and other language stimuli (English, French, German, and Estonian). All listener groups rate higher pitch guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than lower pitch guises. …
It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies
In analyzing not -negation variation in English it becomes clear that specific strategies are used for prosodic emphasis and reduction of not in different social situations, and that contraction strategies vary independently of prosodic reduction. This article focuses on the factors influencing contraction strategies that are clearly dialect related and attempts to tease out those factors that are related to register and speaker stance. First, we…
New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic identity in North America
Phonetic cues to depression
Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of acoustic cues to depression is focused on how phonetic variables can be used by medical professionals as tools t…
Individuals, communities, and sound change
Do individual differences affect sound change? Traditional approaches to phonetic and phonological change typically downplay differences between the individuals who make up a speech community that is undergoing change, but this has been questioned in recent years in a number of ways from within several distinct traditions of research. The articles in the Glossa Special Collection to which this article is an introduction consider the extent to whi…
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
It's not or isn't it? Using large corpora to determine the influences on contraction strategies
In analyzing not -negation variation in English it becomes clear that specific strategies are used for prosodic emphasis and reduction of not in different social situations, and that contraction strategies vary independently of prosodic reduction. This article focuses on the factors influencing contraction strategies that are clearly dialect related and attempts to tease out those factors that are related to register and speaker stance. First, we…
Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese
Reviewed by: Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese: A study of the language communities, the phonological systems, and the phonological developmentsby Ming Chao Gui Lauren A. Hall-Lew Yunnanese and Kunming Chinese: A study of the language communities, the phonological systems, and the phonological developments. By Ming Chao Gui. (LINCOM studies in Asian linguistics 28.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2001. Pp. 147. ISBN 3895866350. $70.20 (Hb). Following Gui’s p…
Kunming Chinese (review)
Reviewed by: Kunming Chinese by Ming Chao Gui Lauren A. Hall-Lew Kunming Chinese. By Ming Chao Gui. (Languages of the world/Materials 340.) Munich: LINCOM Europa, 2000. Pp. 111. ISBN 3895866342. $34.50. This is a detailed grammar of the variety of Mandarin spoken by approximately four million people in Kunming, the capital city of China’s Southwestern province. The structure of Kunming Chinese has been influenced by the cultural and linguistic di…
Ethnicity and Sound Change in San Francisco English
Beyond the 2nd generation
The concept of immigrant generation is complex. Americans use the ordinal designations first-, second-, third-, even ‘1.5’-generation to refer to individuals' varying relationship to their family's moment of immigration. But these terms are much more fluid in practice than the rigidity of the numbers implies, and the nature of that fluidity is changing over time. Furthermore, different waves of immigration mean different experiences of generation…
Ethnicity and Sociolinguistic Variation in San Francisco
California’s San Francisco Bay Area has long been one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the United States, and ethnicity is an integral aspect of any research on language use in the region. This article gives a brief social history of San Francisco with respect to settlement patterns since the 1850s’ gold rush, paying particular attention to Chinese Americans, who are argued to play an especially distinctive role in the city’s history and c…
Norsemen, Normans, and Now
Review Article| May 01 2011 Norsemen, Normans, AND Now: A BOOK FOR Today's ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY Student:the English Language: A Historical Introduction NORSEMEN, NORMANS, AND NOW: A BOOK FOR TODAY'S ENGLISH LANGUAGE HISTORY STUDENT: The English Language: A Historical Introduction By Barber, Charles; Beal, Joan C.; Shaw, Philip A.2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. vii + 306. ISBN: 978-0-521-85404-7; $85.00 (pbk $29.99) La…
Perceptual coding reliability of (L)-vocalization in casual speech data
New perspectives on linguistic variation and ethnic identity in North America
Regional variability and ethnic identity
Coding for Demographic Categories in the Creation of Legacy Corpora
A set of shared coding conventions for speaker ethnicity is necessary for open-source data sharing and cross-study compatibility between linguistic corpora. However, ethnicity, like many other aspects of speaker identity, is continually negotiated and reproduced in discourse, and therefore a challenge to code representatively. This paper discusses some of the challenges facing researchers who want to use, create, or contribute to existing corpora…
Introduction
1. introduction in 2012, a group of Western U.S. sociolinguists came together for an informal meeting at Stanford University to discuss current research on Western U.S. English dialects. The initiative was an attempt to find ways to align our research interests and encourage more work on the vastly understudied English dialects of this American region. As a result of this meeting, several participants began discussing how to synthesize our work o…
Between California and the Pacific Northwest
English in the Western United States has been described as largely homogenous, primarily based on the bot/bought merger and its contrast with the Northern Cities and the South (Labov 1991). However, as the current volume demonstrates, differentiation within Western US English can be found, based on certain distinct features. One example is San Francisco English, where a delayed acquisition of the low back merger has led to San Francisco English b…
Northern Arizona Vowels
Research Article| December 01 2017 Northern Arizona Vowels Lauren Hall-Lew; Lauren Hall-Lew lauren hall-lew is a reader in linguistics and English language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Raised in Flagstaff, Arizona, she received her B.A. in linguistics from the University of Arizona in 2002, where her pilot study of northern Arizona English vowels was first written up as a class ter…
Accommodation or political identity
Phonetic variation among Scottish members of the UK Parliament may be influenced by convergence to Southern English norms (Carr & Brulard, 2006) or political identity (e.g., Hall-Lew, Coppock, & Starr, 2010). Drawing on a year's worth of political speeches (2011–2012) from 10 Scottish members of the UK Parliament (MPs), we find no acoustic evidence for the adoption of a Southern English low vowel system; rather, we find that vowel height is signi…
Sociophonetic perspectives on stylistic diversity in speech research
Sociolinguistic data collection traditionally includes interviews, reading passages, and word lists (Labov 1972). Researchers have increasingly sought out elicitation tasks that have the benefits of tasks based on reading aloud (e.g., studying infrequently occurring variables; controlling for linguistic factors; eliciting the same lexical items across participants) while also eliciting styles more comparable to interview speech (see Drager 2018).…
Crosslinguistic perceptions of /s/ among English, French, and German listeners
This study reports the results of a crosslinguistic matched guise test examining /s/ and pitch variation in judgments of sexual orientation and nonnormative masculinity among English, French, and German listeners. Listeners responded to /s/ and pitch manipulations in native and other language stimuli (English, French, German, and Estonian). All listener groups rate higher pitch guises as more gay- and effeminate-sounding than lower pitch guises. …
Individuals, communities, and sound change
Do individual differences affect sound change? Traditional approaches to phonetic and phonological change typically downplay differences between the individuals who make up a speech community that is undergoing change, but this has been questioned in recent years in a number of ways from within several distinct traditions of research. The articles in the Glossa Special Collection to which this article is an introduction consider the extent to whi…
The Lothian Diary Project
The Lothian Diary Project is an interdisciplinary effort to collect self-recorded audio or video diaries of people’s experiences of COVID-19 in and around Edinburgh, Scotland. In this paper we describe how the project emerged from a desire to support community members. The diaries have been disseminated through public events, a website, an oral history project, and engagement with policymakers. The data collection method encouraged the participat…
Why San Franciscans Used to Sound Like New Yorkers
San Francisco English has been described as dialectologically distinct from the rest of California, as indicated in the earliest studies (DeCamp 1953) up through The Atlas of North American English (Labov, Ash, and Boberg 2006). Just as Carmichael (2024 [this volume]) describes for New Orleans, the evidence suggests that vowel changes in San Francisco English “defied straightforward classification into neighboring dialect areas.” However, the dis…
Phonetic cues to depression
Phonetic data are used in several ways outside of the core field of phonetics. This paper offers the perspective of one such field, sociophonetics, towards another, the study of acoustic cues to clinical depression. While sociophonetics is interested in how, when, and why phonetic variables cue information about the world, the study of acoustic cues to depression is focused on how phonetic variables can be used by medical professionals as tools t…
Feeling disabled
Previous research has proposed that phonetic variation may index affect prior to indexing other social meanings. This study explores whether the affective indexicality of vowels identified in previous studies can also be observed among deaf or hard-of-hearing speakers, in this case, speakers of Taiwan Mandarin. The results suggest that /i/ backing is invoked to signal negative affect. This study also demonstrates how assistive devices like hearin…
You Have to Keep Fighting
In this interview, John R. Rickford reflects on his career working on sociolinguistics in Guyana and the United States. The interview focuses on sociolinguistics and social justice, with particular focus on the potential for linguistic expertise in legal contexts. He addresses the concept of the creole continuum, and the concept of the conflict theory of social class, advocating for the importance of both. The interview also touches on Rickford's…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (23 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · History (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)