Stanford Humanities Center
Lewis Esposito is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Linguistics at Stanford University. He completed his BA in Linguistics & Languages at Swarthmore College in 2016. His research interests center around sociophonetics, social meaning and style, language variation and change, and pragmatics.
SHC Project
Covariation, Change, and Style
Esposito's dissertation explores interspeaker covariation in California, and it aims in part to bridge the gap between theories of sociolectal coherence and bricolage in accounting for patterns of variable clustering.
Forthcoming: Esposito, Lewis & Emily Lake. Complicating prevelar raising in the West. American Speech.
2021: Esposito, Lewis & Chantal Gratton. Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors. Language in Society. Online FirstView.
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.
