Research
*Drafts and slides also available on my ResearchGate.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles & book chapters
To appear: Esposito, Lewis. Variation and change in prosody. Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics (eds.), Alexandra D'Arcy, Yoshiko Asahi, and Paul Kerswill.
To appear: Esposito, Lewis & Emily Lake. Complicating prevelar raising in the West. American Speech.
2022. Esposito, Lewis & Chantal Gratton. Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors. Language in Society.
2020. Esposito, Lewis. Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final post-tonic lengthening. Language Variation and Change 32:191-216.
2017. Esposito, Lewis. Creaky voice, affective stance, and authentication in the speech of Lady Gaga. Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers in Linguistics 3:1-12.
Conference Proceedings
To appear: Esposito, Lewis. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Selected Papers from NWAV50.
2021. Esposito, Lewis. An experimental and distributional investigation of two 'non-culminating accomplishments' in Mandarin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6(1): 689-700.
2020. Esposito, Lewis, and Christopher Potts. A probabilistic pragmatics of English singular some. Proceedings of SALT 30: 22-42.
2018. Karlgren, Jussi, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton & Panetti Kanera. Authorship profiling without using topical information. In Patrice Bellot, Chiraz Trabelsi, Josiane Mothe, Fionn Murtagh, Jian Yun Nie, 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), September 2018.
Conference presentations
2022. Esposito, Lewis. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. Paper presented at NWAV50, Stanford University.
2021. Esposito, Lewis. Enregisterment, erasure, and the multi-faceted sociolinguistic profile of quotative be like in Sacramento. Paper presented at DiPVaC 5, University of Melbourne.
2021. Esposito, Lewis. Interspeaker covariation and characterological figures in Sacramento. Paper presented at NWAV 49, University of Texas, Austin.
2021. Esposito, Lewis. An experimental and distributional investigation of two 'non-culminating accomplishments' in Mandarin. Poster presented at the 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America.
2021. Podesva, Robert J., Podesva, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton, Emily Lake, Daisy Leigh, Rob Voigt, & Robert Xu. Complicating the SO in social meaning: Interactional dimensions of gendered /s/ variation. Sociolinguistics Symposium 23. [CANCELLED due to COVID-19]
2020. Esposito, Lewis, & Chris Potts. A probabilistic pragmatics of English singular some. Poster presented at SALT 30, Cornell University. Link to presentation materials: https://osf.io/3wqzc/
2020. Podesva, Robert J., CJ Brickhouse, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton, Sabrina Grimberg, & Zion Mengesha. TRAM/TRAP and country-orientation among Latinx speakers in California. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society.
2019. Esposito, Lewis & Lake, Emily. How far do Pacific Northwest features spread? Evidence of prevelar raising/fronting across California. Paper presented at NWAV 48, University of Oregon.
2019. Esposito, Lewis & Robert Xu. 2019. Affect and iconicity: Cross-linguistic similarities in the meaning of final syllable lengthening. Paper presented at NWAV 48, University of Oregon.
2019. Esposito, Lewis. Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The case of phrase-final lengthening. Poster presented at the 92nd Annual Meeting at the Linguistic Society of America.
2018. Esposito, Lewis & Chantal Gratton. Rhythm and the embodiment of physical practices. Paper presented at NWAV 47, New York University.
2017. Esposito, Lewis. A consideration of multiple time points in a longitudinal study. Poster presented at the NWAV 46, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016. Esposito, Lewis. Lady Gaga and creaky voice. Poster presented at NWAV 45, Simon Fraser University.