Fleur de Ling: Tulane University Working Papers Volume 3 (#1 2017)

Editor: Lisa Sprowls, Craig Alcantara, and Tosin Gbogi, Year:2017

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword
Lisa Sprowls, Craig Alcantara, and Tosin Gbogi
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Avoiding dusty death: Continued Spanish saliency amongst Puerto Ricans in Lorain, Ohio
Tom Lewis
/aʊ/ Monophthongization in Pittsburgh English: an Optimality Theory account
Lisa Sprowls
INVITED CONTRIBUTION
Fieldworkers and sociolinguists: What we can learn from each other
Dr. Leora Bar-el
ALUMNI CONTRIBUTIONS
Performing home and anti-home: linguistic choices and the construction of identity
Morakinyo D. Ogunmodimu
Stylistic variation and dialect contradiction: the case of /Ʒ/ and /H/ in Louisiana French
Katie Carmichael
WRITING SYSTEMS
Writing as a source of linguistic change
Mary Kate Kelly
Paleographic analysis of the Codex Vergara
Shane Lief
LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE
Characterizing AAVE: a corpus-based study of Charles Chesnutt's short stories
Troy E. Spier
“Little women”: female speech in modern-day young adult literature
Lauren Dodaro