Betsy Sneller

Publications

Betsy Sneller, Suzanne Wagner, and Yongqing Ye. MI Diaries: Ethical and practical considerations. Linguistics Vanguard: Special issue on COVID-era Sociolinguistics. [pdf] [appendix]

Gareth Roberts and Betsy Sneller. Empirical foundations for an integrated study of langauge evolution. Language Dymanics and Change (In Press).
Betsy Sneller. Phonological rule spreading across hostile lines: (TH)-fronting in Grays Ferry. Language Variation and Change 32(1).

Betsy Sneller. Where our Fathers are From: Place and Conflict in Sociolinguistic Borrowing. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 25.2. [pdf]
Betsy Sneller, Josef Fruehwald and Charles Yang. Using the Tolerance Principle to predict phonological change. Language Variation and Change 31: 1--20. [pdf]
Betsy Sneller. Allophonic systems as a variable within individual speakers. In Lightoot, D. (Ed.). Variable properties in language: Their nature and acquisition. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. [pdf]

Betsy Sneller. Mechanisms of Phonological Change. PhD Thesis, University of Pennsylvania. [read]
Betsy Sneller and Gareth Roberts. Why some behaviors spread while others don't: A laboratory simulation of dialect contact. Cognition 170: 289--311. [pdf]

William Labov, Sabriya Fisher, Duna Gylfadottir, Anita Henderson and Betsy Sneller. Competing Systems in Philadelphia phonology. Language Variation and Change 28(3): 273--305. [pdf]
Betsy Sneller and Gareth Roberts. Alien species and alienable traits: An artificial language game investigating the spread of cultural variants between antagonistic groups. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., and Trueswell, J.C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Sabriya Fisher, Hilary Prichard and Betsy Sneller. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: Incremental change in Philadelphia families. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 21.2. [pdf]
Betsy Sneller and Sabriya Fisher. When GET got noticed: The emerging salience of GET-passives. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 20.1. [pdf]

Betsy Sneller. Antagonistic contact and inverse affiliation: Appropriation of (TH)-fronting by White speakers in Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 20.2. [pdf]
Betsy Sneller. Using rate of change as a diagnostic of vowel phonologization. In Tuzzi, A., Benesova, M., and Macutek, J. (Eds.). Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. [pdf]

Betsy Sneller. ``Aw man!": The effect of hometown affiliation on NCS shifting in Holland, Michigan. MA Thesis, University of Essex. [pdf]

Betsy Sneller. Developing a mobile app for remote sociolinguistic research. Paper presented at NWAV 2022. [slides]
Joey Stanley and Betsy Sneller. How sample size impacts Pillai Scores (and what sociophoneticians should do about it). Paper presented at NWAV 2022.

Betsy Sneller, Suzanne Wagner, and Yongqing Ye. MI Diaries. Part of the `Methods, Ethics, Theory: Sociolinguistic Data Collection During COVID-19 Special Panel'. Paper presented at LSA 2021, San Francisco. [slides]

Betsy Sneller. Phonological change via probabilistic variation. Paper presented at LAGB, London. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. Individuals in the crowd: The joint roles of agency and structure in sound change. Paper presented at UKVLC 12, London. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. and Gareth Roberts Indexicality, sociolinguistic awareness, and language change. Paper presented at UKVLC 12, London. [abstract][poster]
Betsy Sneller. The role of social network and social identity in language change. Paper presented at LSA 93, New York City. [abstract]

Betsy Sneller. Interracial conflict as a source of feature borrowing. Paper presented at NWAV 47, New York City. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller and William Labov. Does phonetic reversal lead to phonological reversal? Poster presented at NWAV 47, New York City. [abstract]
Gareth Roberts and Betsy Sneller. How different kinds of social meaning affect the spread of linguistic variants. Paper presented at Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning Conference, Paris. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. Using the Tolerance Principle to diagnose phonological rules. Poster presented at LSA 92. [poster]

Betsy Sneller. How abstract is your variable? Allophonic systems as an intraspeaker variable Betsy Sneller. Poster presented at NWAV 46. [poster]
Betsy Sneller. On the unobservability of structure: Perception of phonology vs. phonetics in experimental data. Paper presented at LAGB 2017. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. Dialect contact in South Philadelphia: Indexing "street" with an outside variant. Paper presented at UKLVC 11. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. Rules with exceptions: Using the Tolerance Principle to diagnose allophones. Paper presented at FWAV 4. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller. Intraspeaker competition of two allophonic subsystems. Paper presented at LSA 91. [abstract]
Gareth Roberts and Betsy Sneller. The role of indexicality in phonological feature adoption: A novel experimental approach. Paper presented at LSA 91.

Betsy Sneller, Josef Fruehwald, and Charles Yang. The Nasal Invasion: Predicting systemic change in dialect contact. Paper presented at NWAV 45. [abstract]
Betsy Sneller and Josef Fruehwald. Evaluating the inevitability of phonological change: /ae/ in Philadelphia. Paper presented at FWAV 3. [abstract]
Josef Fruehwald and Betsy Sneller. Simplicity versus data in phonological change. Paper presented at the 24th annual meeting of the Manchester Phonology Meeting.
Betsy Sneller. Retention of two phonological subsystems in adult speakers. Paper presented at BLS 42. [abstract]

William Labov, Sabriya Fisher, Duna Gylfadottir, Anita Henderson, Hilary Prichard and Betsy Sneller. The re-organization of short-a systems in Philadelphia. Paper presented at NWAV 44.
Betsy Sneller and Gareth Roberts. Sociolinguistics in an alien language: A laboratory simulation of linguistic behavior in a South Philadelphia neighborhood. Poster presented at NWAV 44.
Betsy Sneller. A community divided: co-occurrence in salient feature shift. Poster presented at UKLVC 10. [abstract] [poster]
Betsy Sneller and Sabriya Fisher. The limits of the sociolinguistic monitor. Poster presented at UKLVC 10.
Betsy Sneller and Joel Wallenberg. Allophonic emergence: three ways allophonic rules come to be. Paper presented at FWAV 2.
Betsy Sneller. Individual conditioning factors and system knowledge contribute to evaluation of phonological systems. Paper presented at PLC 39. [abstract]
Laura Walker, Betsy Sneller and Sabriya Fisher. Untangling language attitudes from linguistic knowledge in self-reports of stigmatized speech. Poster presented at PLC 39.
Betsy Sneller. The systematic incrementation of a phonological change in Philadelphia. Invited talk to MSU Sociolinguistics Talk.
Betsy Sneller. Phonotactics of (TH)-fronting in AAVE. Paper presented at LSA 89. [abstract]

Betsy Sneller Phonotactic simplification in borrowed (TH)-fronting. Paper presented at NWAV 43. [abstract]

Betsy Sneller Hometown affiliation and language. Poster presented at UKLVC 9.