Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION
PhD in Linguistics, 2017-present
Stanford University
Dissertation: Covariation, change, and style
Committee: Rob Podesva (co-chair), Penny Eckert (co-chair), Katherine Hilton, Meghan Sumner
BA in Linguistics & Languages, 2016
Swarthmore College
ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK
Swarthmore/Haverford Linguistics Field School, 2015
Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
Chinese Summer Language School, Middlebury College, 2013
Penn State University, Schreyer Honors College, 2012-2013
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Best Student Paper Award, NWAV 50
Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize, Stanford University, 2022-2023
Gilliland Award, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California, 2021
Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2021
Pigott Scholars Fellowship, Stanford University, 2020-2021
Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2019
LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 2019
PhD tuition & stipend, Stanford University, 2017-2022
Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 2016
BA with Honors, Swarthmore College, 2016
Eugene M. Lang Summer Initiative Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2015
National Science Foundation REU Grant, Swarthmore College, 2015
Letitia M. Wolverton Class of 1913 Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2014-2015
Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2014
President's Freshman Award, Penn State University, 2013
Liberal Arts Scholarship, Penn State University, 2012-2013
Schreyer Academic Excellence Scholarship, Penn State University, 2012-2013
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Esposito, Lewis, and Emily Lake. Forthcoming. Complicating prevelar raising in the West. American Speech.
Esposito, Lewis, and Chantal Gratton. 2021. Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors. Language in Society.
Esposito, Lewis. 2020. Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening. Language Variation and Change 32:191-216.
INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS
To appear. Variation and change in prosody. Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics (eds.), Alexandra D'Arcy, Yoshiyuki Ahi, and Paul Kerswill.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Esposito, Lewis. 2021. An experiment and distributional investigation of two 'non-culminating accomplishments' in Mandarin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6:689-700.
Esposito, Lewis, and Christopher Potts. 2020. A probabilistic pragmatics for English singular some. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 30:22-42.
Karlgren, Jussi, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton Panetti Kanera. Authorship profiling without using topical information. 2018. In Patrice Bellot, Chiraz Trabelsi, Josiane Mothe, Fionn Murtagh, Jian YunNie, Laure Soulier, Eric Sanjuan, Linda Cappellato, and Nicola Ferro, editors, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2018).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Esposito, Lewis. 2017. Creaky voice, affective stance, and authentication in the speech of Lady Gaga. Lifespans and Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers in Intraspeaker Variation 3:2-12.
Harrison, David, and Lewis Esposito. 2016. Aneityum Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/Aneityum.
Harrison, David, and Lewis Esposito. 2016. Nafe Talking Dictionary. Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. http://talkingdictionary.org/Nafe.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Esposito, Lewis. 2022. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. Paper presented at NWAV50, Stanford University.
Esposito, Lewis. 2021. Enregisterment, erasure, and the multi-faceted sociolinguistic profile of quotative be like in Sacramento. DiPVaC 5, University of Melbourne.
Esposito, Lewis. 2021. Interspeaker covariation and characterological figures in Sacramento. NWAV49, University of Texas, Austin.
Esposito, Lewis. 2021. An experimental and distributional investigation of two 'non-culminating accomplishments' in Mandarin. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Esposito, Lewis, and Christopher Potts. 2020. A probabilistic pragmatics of English singular some. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 30, Cornell University.
Podesva, Robert, C.J. Brickhouse, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton, Sabrina Grimberg, and Zion Mengesha. 2020. TRAM/TRAP and country-orientation among Latinx speakers in California. American Dialect Society, New Orleans.
Esposito, Lewis, and Emily Lake. 2019. How far do Pacific Northwest features spread? Evidence of pre-velar raising/fronting across California. NWAV 48, University of Oregon.
Esposito, Lewis, and Robert Xu. 2019. Affect and iconicity: Cross-linguistic similarities in the meaning of final-syllable lengthening. NWAV 48, University of Oregon.
Esposito, Lewis. 2019. Linking gender, sexuality, and affect. The case of phrase-final posttonic lengthening. 93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
Esposito, Lewis, and Chantal Gratton. 2018. Rhythm and the embodiment of physical practices. NWAV 47, New York University.
Esposito, Lewis. 2017. A consideration of multiple timepoints in a longitudinal study. NWAV 46, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Esposito, Lewis. Lady Gaga and creaky voice. NWAV 45, Simon Fraser University.
INVITED TALKS (INTERNAL)
2021. A probabilistic pragmatics for English singular some. Talk for Stanford Linguistics Open House.
2021. Introduction to speech corpora. Guest lecture for Emily Lake's Introduction to Linguistic Research for Undergraduates.
2020. Locating style. Coffee talk for linguistics undergraduates.
2020. Masculinity, affect, and embodiment. Guest lecture for Rob Podesva's Language, Gender, and Sexuality course.
2020. Non-culminating accomplishments in Mandarin. Talk given in Cleo Condoravdi's Introduction to Lexical Semantics course.
2019. The Voices of California Project. Talk in Daisy Leigh's Introduction to Linguistic Research for Undergraduates.
2018. Style and Iconicity. Talk in Penelope Eckert's Language and Gender course.
TEACHING
TA, Language and Society (LING150), Stanford University, Winter 2021
Primary instructor: Katherine Hilton
Grader, Introduction to Psycholinguistics (LING145), Stanford University, Fall 2020
Primary instructor: Judith Degen
TA, Introduction to Lexical Semantics (LING130B), Stanford University, Spring 2020
Primary instructor: Cleo Condoravdi
Grader, Language and Society (LING150), Stanford University, Winter 2020
Primary instructor: Katherine Hilton
Grader, Language and Gender (LING156), Stanford University, Fall 2019
Primary instructor: Penelope Eckert
Grader, Introduction to Lexical Semantics (LING130B), Stanford University, Spring 2019
Primary instructor: Cleo Condoravdi
TA, Language and Gender (LING156), Stanford University, Winter 2019
Primary instructor: Penelope Eckert
Sole instructor, Latin I, Carmenta Online Latin School, 2016-2017.
TA & grader, Latin 001 and Latin 002, Swarthmore College, 2014-2015
Instructors: Rosaria Munson (001) & William Turpin (002).
RELEVANT NON-ACADEMIC WORK
Certified SAT & TOEFL essay rater, Educational Testing Service (ETS), 2016-2017.
Language and Orientation Tutor (ESL), Stanford University, Spring 2019.
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
Voices of California Project, Stanford University, 2018, 2019.
Federated States of Micronesia, Mokilese community. 2015.
SERVICE
Sociolinguistics Search Committee (invited), Department of Linguistics 2021-2022.
Linguistics peer mentor, Department of Linguistics, 2021.
Admissions Open House organizer, Department of Linguistics, 2021.
Linguistics PhD Admissions Committee (invited), Department of Linguistics, 2021.
Undergraduate Studies Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2019-2020.
Colloquium Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2018-2019.
SocioLunch organizer, Department of Linguistics, 2017-2018.
Social Committee, Department of Linguistics, 2017-2018,
REVIEWING
Journals: Language in Society
Conferences: NWAV 49