Articles and chapters

• Esposito, Lewis. To appear. Systems of variables and the scope of language change. Language in Society.

• Esposito, Lewis. To appear. The voiceless fricative class, gender, and social meaning. U. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Selected Papers from NWAV 53.

• Babinski, Sarah, Lewis Esposito, and K. David Harrison. To appear. Mwoakilloan environmental narratives and language documentation. Languages.

• Esposito, Lewis. To appear. Variation and change in prosody. Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics (eds.), Alexandra D'Arcy, Yoshiyuki Ahi, and Paul Kerswill.

• Esposito, Lewis. 2023. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. Invited papers from NWAV50: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.

• Esposito, Lewis, and Emily Lake. 2023. Complicating prevelar raising in the West. American Speech.

• Esposito, Lewis, and Chantal Gratton. 2022. Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors. Language in Society. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

Select recent and forthcoming presentations

• Esposito, Lewis. 2027. The local implementation of the Low-Back-Merger-Shift in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Paper to be presented at the American Dialect Society, San Francisco.

• Esposito, Lewis. 2026. The affective underpinnings of quotative verb variation. Paper to be presented at NWAV54, University of Montreal.

• Esposito, Lewis, and Lelia Glass. 2026. Linguistic context, not speaker demographics, drives variation in get versus be passives. Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 62, University of Chicago.

• Esposito, Lewis. 2025. The voiceless fricative class, gender, and social meaning. NWAV53, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• Esposito, Lewis. 2024. Back vowel fronting, covariation, and suburbanization. NWAV52, Florida International University, Miami

• Esposito, Lewis. 2023. Changing structures of covariation. NWAV51, Queens College, City University of New York. 

• Esposito, Lewis. 2022. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. 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.