Hi, I'm Jennifer, a PhD Student in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley.

 

Selected work...

On Non-binary French

Cross-Romance Typologies of Gender Neutrality and Gender Expansiveness. With Ben Papadopoulos. IGALA 12. July 4, 2023.





Gender (un–) marking in varieties of français inclusif (10m)

Gender (un–)marking in varieties of français inclusif. Israeli Association for the Study of Language and Society. June 19, 2022.

SS24: Beyond the Masculine/Feminine Romance Gender Binary: Linguistic Innovation and Variation in Non-Binary French

Beyond the Masculine/Feminine Romance Gender Binary: Linguistic Innovation and Variation in Non-binary French. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24. July 16, 2022.

LSA2021Presentation.pdf

Competing Inclusive French Grammars Among Non-Binary Montréalers: Three Approaches to "Neutral" Nouns. LSA 2021. Poster.

Binary-Constrained Codeswitching_PPT.pptx

Binary-Constrained Codeswitching. PAMLA 2021. 

 

On the New York Accent 

NWAV49

Attitudinal Effects on Vowel Fronting Among Young Adults in New York City. With Cecelia Cutler. NWAV 49.

Kaplan.5ML.mov

I'm Tawkin' Here: Why don't New Yorkers sound like Noo Yawkas anymore? Winning Presentation at the 5 Minute Linguist Competition. LSA 96.  

Attitudinal Effects on Vowel Fronting Among Young Adults in New York City. With Cecelia Cutler. NWAV 49.

Other Recent Work

MLA — Politics and Language Change

"Black on Black Crime": The Evolution of a Phrase and an Image of Black Criminality. MLA 2022.

RPDR Lexical Appropriation

NEMLA 2021. 

Somethin’ Like That: A Study of Transwomen’s Phonology and Syntax Over Time, Through YouTube Auto-documentation

Arizona Linguistics Circle 2021.

Get in touch at Jenniferkaplan@berkeley.edu

Twitter: @jennifermarisa