Research / Scholarly
Publications Related to Grant Research

Anderson, Bridget. 1997. Adaptive sociophonetic strategies and dialect accommodation: /ay/ monophthongization in Cherokee English. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.

Cheek, Adrianne. 1995. Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /_/: A Sociophonetic Historical Perspective. Master's Thesis. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.

Dannenberg, Clare. 1996. Moving Toward a Diachronic and Synchronic Definition of Lumbee English. Master's Thesis. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.

Dannenberg, Clare, and Walt Wolfram. Forthcoming. Ethnic identity and grammatical restructuring: Be(s) in Lumbee English. American Speech.

Hazen, Kirk. 1994. Subject-Verb Concord in Post-Insular Vernacular Varieties of English. Master's Thesis. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.

Hazen, Kirk. 1996. Dialect affinity and subject-verb concord: The Appalachian-Outer Banks connection. SECOL Review 20.1:25-53.

Hazen, Kirk. 1996. Linguistic preference and prescriptive dictum: On the phonological and morphological justification of ain't. The phonological and morphological justification of ain't. Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis, ed. by Jennifer Arnold, Renée Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon, 101-111. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Hazen, Kirk. Forthcoming. The birth of a variant: Evidence for a tripartite, negative past be paradigm. Language, Variation, and Change.

Hazen, Kirk. 1999. Identity and ethnicity in the rural South: A sociolinguistic view through past and present be. Publications of the American Dialect Society 83. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Herman, David. Forthcoming. "Spatial reference in narrative domains." TEXT.

Herman, David. Forthcoming. Pragmatic Constraints on Narrative Processing: Actants and Anaphora Resolution in a Corpus of North Carolina Ghost Stories. Journal of Pragmatics.

Herman, David. 2001. Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Herman, David. In progress. Narrative Communication: An Integrative Approach to Stories and Storytelling.

Herman, David. 1999. "Spatial Cognition in Natural-Language Narratives." Papers from the 1999 AAAI Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence. Technical Report FS-99-01. Menlo Park, CA: American Association of Artificial Intelligence. 21-25.

Herman, David. 1999. Towards a Socionarratology: New Ways of Analyzing Natural-Language Narratives. In Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Herman, David. 1999. Spatial Cognition in Natural-Language Narratives. Working Notes for the 1999 AAAI Symposium on Narrative Intelligence. American Association of Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming).

Herman, David, editor. 1999. Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.

Herman, David. 1999. Parables of narrative imagining. Diacritics 29.1: 20-36.

Herman, David. 1998. Narrative, science, and narrative science. Narrative Inquiry 8.2: 379-90.

Herman, David. 1998. Dialogue in a discourse context: Discourse-analytic models and Woolf's To the Lighthouse. Virginia Woolf Miscellany 52: 3-4.

Herman, David. 1998. Limits of order: Toward a theory of polychronic narration. Narrative 6.1: 72-95.

Herman, David. 1997. Scripts, sequences, and stories: Elements of a postclassical narratology. PMLA 112.5: 1046-1059.

Herman, David. 1995. Universal Grammar and Narrative Form. Durham: Duke University Press.

Herman, David. 1994. Hypothetical focalization. Narrative 2.3: 230-253.

Herman, David. 1994. The Mutt and Jute dialogue in Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Some Gricean perspectives. Style 28.2: 219-241.

Miller, Jason. 1996. Mixed Sociolinguistic Alignment and Ethnic Identity: r-Lessness in a Native American Community. Master's Thesis: Raleigh, North Carolina State University.

Peterson, James. 1995. Style Variation in the Sociolinguistic Interview: An Empirical Study of Interviewer Adaptation. Master's Thesis. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. forthcoming. Accommodation vs. concentration: Dialect death in two post-insular island communities. American Speech.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. forthcoming (under revision). Investigating "self-conscious" speech: The performance register in Ocracoke English. Language in Society.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1995. Extending our understanding of the /z/ ® [d] rule. American Speech 70.3:291-302.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1994. The lexical and/or phonological basis of prenasal [z] ® [d] in Southern speech. Penn Review of Linguistics 18:161-176.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1993. Evidence and Argument in the Development of Prenasal [z] ® [d]. Master's Thesis. Raleigh: North Carolina State University.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie. 1995. Production, perception and patterning: 'Performance' speech in an endangered dialect variety. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, vol. 2, no. 2. (Penn Review of Linguistics: Papers from the 19th Penn Linguistics Colloquium.) 117-31.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie, and Jessica Schrider. 1996. The symbolization of islander identity: Sex- and gender-based variation in Ocracoke English. Paper presented at NWAVE 25, Las Vegas, NV, October 1996.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie, and Walt Wolfram. 1997. Symbolic identity and language change: A comparative analysis of post-insular /ay/ and /aw/. forthcoming. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.

Schilling-Estes, Natalie, and Walt Wolfram. 1994. Convergent explanation and alternative regularization patterns: were/weren't leveling in a vernacular English variety. Language Variation and Change 6.3:273-302.

Thomas, Erik R. Forthcoming 2001. An Acoustic Analysis of Vowel Variation in New World English. Publication of the American Dialect Society 85. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Thomas, Erik R. Forthcoming 2000. Applying Phonetic Methods to Language Variation. American Speech 75.

Thomas, Erik R. Forthcoming 2000. Instrumental Phonetics. The Handbook of Variation and Change. Ed. J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Oxford: Blackwell.

Thomas, Erik R. Forthcoming 2000. Spectral Differences in /ai/ Offsets Conditioned by Voicing of the Following Consonant. Journal of Phonetics.

Thomas, Erik R. 1999. The North Carolina Language and Life Project's Survey of Hyde County. High Tides 20:31-36.

Thomas, Erik R. 1998. The Relationship Between Final Alveolar Stops and /ai/ Offsets in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104:1779.

Thomas, Erik R., & Guy Bailey. 1998. Parallels between Vowel Subsystems of African American Vernacular English and Caribbean Creoles. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 13:267-96.

Bailey, Guy, & Erik Thomas. 1998. Some Aspects of African- American Vernacular English Phonology. African American English. Ed. Salikoko F. Mufwene, John Rickford, John Baugh, and Guy Bailey. London: Routledge. 85-109.

Thomas, Erik R. 1997. A Rural/Metropolitan Split in the Speech of Texas Anglos. Language Variation and Change 9:309-32.

Thomas, Erik R. 1996. A Comparison of Variation Patterns of Variables among Sixth-Graders in an Ohio community. Focus on the USA. Ed. Edgar W. Schneider. Varieties of English around the World, General Series 16. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 149-68. Wolfram, Walt. 1999. Issues in Reconstructing Earlier African American English. World Englishes.

Wolfram, Walt. 1999. Dialect Change and Maintenance on the Outer Banks. University of Alabama Press.

Wolfram, Walt. 1998. American English: Dialects and Variation. Language in Society 24. Blackwell Pub.

Wolfram, Walt. 1996. Endangered dialects: Sociolinguistic opportunity and obligation. Georgetown Roundtable on Language and Linguistics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

Wolfram, Walt. 1996. Delineation and description in dialectology: The case of Perfective I'm in Lumbee English. American Speech 71:5-26.

Wolfram, Walt, Carolyn Temple Adger, Donna Christian. 1998. Dialects in Schools and Communities. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Wolfram, Walt, Adrianne Cheek, and Hal Hammond. 1996. Competing norms and selective assimilation: Mixing Outer Banks and Southern /_/. Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis, ed. by Jennifer Arnold, Renée Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon, 41-67. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Wolfram, Walt, and Clare Dannenberg. 1999. Dialect identity in a tri-ethnic context: The case of Lumbee American Indian English. English World-Wide February.

Wolfram, Walt, and Kirk Hazen. 1996. Isolation within isolation: The invisible Ocracoke dialect. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 3:141-58.

Wolfram, Walt, Kirk Hazen, and Jennifer Tamburro. 1997. Isolation within isolation: A solitary century of African-American Vernacular English. Journal of Sociolinguistics 1:7-38.

Wolfram, Walt, Kirk Hazen, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. forthcoming. Language Change and Maintenance in Outer Banks English. Publications of the American Dialect Society. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1995. Moribund dialects and the endangerment canon: The case of the Ocracoke brogue. Language 71.4:696-721.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1996. Dialect change and maintenance in a post-insular island community. Varieties of English Around the World: Focus on the USA, ed. by Edgar W. Schneider, 103-48. Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. forthcoming. Dialectology and Linguistic Diffusion. Handbook of Historical Linguistics, ed. by Richard D. Janda and Brian D. Joseph. Oxford: Blackwell.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. forthcoming. Endangered dialects: A neglected situation in the endangerment canon. Southwest Journal of Linguistics.

Wolfram, Walt, and Natalie Schilling-Estes. 1996. On the social basis of phonetic resistance. Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory, and Analysis, ed. by Jennifer Arnold, Renée Blake, Brad Davidson, Scott Schwenter, and Julie Solomon, 69-82. Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information.

Wolfram, Walt, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Kirk Hazen, and Chris Craig. forthcoming. The sociolinguistic complexity of quasi-isolated Southern coastal communities. Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. by Cynthia Bernstein, Tom Nunnally, and Robin Sabino. University, AL: University of Alabama Press.

Wolfram, Walt, Natalie Schilling-Estes, Roscoe Johnson, James Peterson, and Yancey R. Hall. 1994. Dialect mixing and ethnic identity in Lumbee English. Paper presented at Southeastern Conference on Linguistics 50, Memphis, TN, April 1994.

Wolfram, Walt, and Jason Sellers. 1999. Ethnolinguistic Marking of Past Be in Lumbee Vernacular English. Journal of English Linguistics 27.2.

Wolfram, Walt, Erik Thomas, and Elaine W. Green. 2000. The Regional Context of Earlier African-American Speech: Evidence for Reconstructing the Development of AAVE. Language in Society 29.2. Blackwell Pub.

Wolfram, Walt, Erik R. Thomas, & Elaine W. Green. 2000. The Regional Context of Earlier African-American Speech: Evidence for Reconstructing the Development of AAVE. Language in Society 29:315-45.