Jaime Benheim
Biographic Data
| ID | 756513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaime Benheim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaime |
| FAMILY NAME | Benheim |
| SIGNATURE | BENHEIM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University Evanston Illinois |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9764-9831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Style in Sound Change: Chicago Adolescents’ Social Evaluations of the Northern Cities Shift
Recent evidence from production studies and meta-linguistic commentary suggests that the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) is rising above the level of consciousness to become negatively evaluated, thus prompting its reversal in apparent time. This study probes Chicago-area adolescents’ social evaluations of salient NCS-implicated vowels via a matched guise task. Since the social meanings of linguistic features are determined through their co-occurrenc…
The Bad School on the Northwest Side: Indexical Order and High School Choice in Chicago1
Research throughout the United States has found that the type of high school a speaker attended can impact linguistic variation. However, this work has largely focused on adult alumni of schools. This paper examines high school students’ reversal of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, an ongoing sound change in Chicago, through a qualitative analysis of interview content and quantitative analysis of vowel production. Results show that students from …
Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans
Research on Jewish English in the United States has drawn on a set of ideologies linking the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire to New York City English, but less is known about how these ideologies interface with the social meanings of regional features in the communities outside New York in which these speakers live. Through meta-linguistic commentary and acoustic analyses drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with white Jewish and Catholic Chic…
Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among 42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of community-wide vocalic change alongside individual speakers' lived experiences and attitudes. We find that some features of the Shift are dramatically reversing at the community level, and that changing demographics and social concerns across the community's history condition whic…
Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among 42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of community-wide vocalic change alongside individual speakers' lived experiences and attitudes. We find that some features of the Shift are dramatically reversing at the community level, and that changing demographics and social concerns across the community's history condition whic…
Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans
Research on Jewish English in the United States has drawn on a set of ideologies linking the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire to New York City English, but less is known about how these ideologies interface with the social meanings of regional features in the communities outside New York in which these speakers live. Through meta-linguistic commentary and acoustic analyses drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with white Jewish and Catholic Chic…
Contextualizing reversal: Local dynamics of the Northern Cities Shift in a Chicago community
This paper examines the apparent time evolution of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift among 42 White speakers in one Chicago community. We analyse quantitative patterns of community-wide vocalic change alongside individual speakers' lived experiences and attitudes. We find that some features of the Shift are dramatically reversing at the community level, and that changing demographics and social concerns across the community's history condition whic…
Local features, local meanings: Language ideologies and place-linked vocalic variation among Jewish Chicagoans
Research on Jewish English in the United States has drawn on a set of ideologies linking the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire to New York City English, but less is known about how these ideologies interface with the social meanings of regional features in the communities outside New York in which these speakers live. Through meta-linguistic commentary and acoustic analyses drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with white Jewish and Catholic Chic…
Style in Sound Change: Chicago Adolescents’ Social Evaluations of the Northern Cities Shift
Recent evidence from production studies and meta-linguistic commentary suggests that the Northern Cities Shift (NCS) is rising above the level of consciousness to become negatively evaluated, thus prompting its reversal in apparent time. This study probes Chicago-area adolescents’ social evaluations of salient NCS-implicated vowels via a matched guise task. Since the social meanings of linguistic features are determined through their co-occurrenc…
The Bad School on the Northwest Side: Indexical Order and High School Choice in Chicago1
Research throughout the United States has found that the type of high school a speaker attended can impact linguistic variation. However, this work has largely focused on adult alumni of schools. This paper examines high school students’ reversal of the Northern Cities Vowel Shift, an ongoing sound change in Chicago, through a qualitative analysis of interview content and quantitative analysis of vowel production. Results show that students from …
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (4 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Salient (2 works) · Socioeconomic status (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sound change (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)