5. Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia

jon forrest is an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from North Carolina State University in 2018. His work focuses on language variation and change in social-structural contexts, emphasizing the importance of institutions in contextualizing individual-level and group-level variation. He is particularly interested in how these forces shape ongoing linguistic change in the Southern United States and how individuals innovatively navigate structural barriers with language. Generationally, he’s a Millennial, he supposes. Email: [email protected].

margaret e. l. renwick is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Georgia, having received her Ph.D. at Cornell University in 2012. She studies how phonological contrasts are implemented phonetically and how they vary across locations, time, and social groups. Her research projects are rooted in laboratory phonology, an approach that integrates experimental methods with more abstract linguistic representations of sound structure. Renwick identifies as a Millennial with Gen X tastes. Email: [email protected].

joseph a. stanley is an assistant professor of linguistics at Brigham Young University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2020 after doing a sociophonetic analysis of speech in southwest Washington State for his dissertation. His current research focuses on language and language ideologies in the Mountain West, particularly in Utah, where age, religiosity, and urban-rural orientation appear to be key factors in language variation. He has collected data from all over the Mountain West and is beginning to analyze a 650-hour archive of interviews from Heber, Utah. He is squarely Millennial. Email: [email protected].

lelia glass is an assistant professor of linguistics and the coordinator of a small, growing linguistics program in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies meaning and variation in language, with diverse projects on lexical semantics and sociophonetics unified by their emphasis on large-scale corpus data. She earned her Ph.D. in linguistics from Stanford University, where she received the university-wide Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017). She is a Millennial. Email: [email protected].