6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of ain’t for didn’t in Post-Migration Philadelphia
sabriya fisher is the Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Wellesley College. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018. Her research explores issues in the production and perception of variation and language change in dialects of English using tools from quantitative sociolinguistics and experimental linguistics. She has presented her work at numerous national and international conferences and has published articles in Language Variation and Change, American Speech, and coauthored book chapters for The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015) and Theoretical Linguistics in the Pre-university Classroom (Oxford Univ. Press, 2023). Born between Gen X and true Millennials, she is considered an elder or geriatric Millennial but prefers the term Xennial. Email: [email protected].
Sabriya Fisher; 6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of ain’t for didn’t in Post-Migration Philadelphia. Publication of the American Dialect Society 1 December 2024; 109 (1): 135–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11587967
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