GILLIAN SANKOFF Professor of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania

Address: Department of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Office: 615 Williams Hall; also in Linguistics Laboratory, 3700 Market St., Suite 300
Phone: (215) 898-6909; 898-4912
Fax: (215) 573-2427
Email: gsankoff@comcast.net.upenn.edu

Fall Semester, 2008

This semester I am offering two courses for credit:

Linguistics 102. Introduction to Sociolinguistics.

Linguistics 440. Pidgins and Creoles

Current major research project: "Language Change Across the Lifespan"

Site under construction. It will be updated shortly! 

At the moment, the only document posted here is the handout from a recent talk I gave at the Ohio State University Symposium on Linguistic Variation across the Lifespan (May 2 2008).  My talk was entitled "Inter-individual variation and change in adolescence and beyond: Evidence from real time". 

Recent Papers

Language Change across the Lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French, Gillian Sankoff & Hélène Blondeau. Language 83, 3 (2008): 560-88. 

Age grading in retrograde movement: the inflected future in Montréal French, Gillian Sankoff & Suzanne Evans Wagner. The document posted here is a pdf file of the article as it appeared in the Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12, 2 (2006):203-16.

Age: Apparent time and real time, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition, 2006. Article Number: LALI: 01479. (The document posted here is a pdf file of the final manuscript)

Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies   In Ammon, Ulrich, Norbert Dittmar, Klaus J. Mattheier, and Peter Trudgill, eds. (2005), An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society, Volume 2, 2. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp.1003-1013. (The document posted here is a pdf file of the final manuscript)

Adolescents, young adults and the critical period: two case studies from Seven Up. 2004.  In Carmen Fought, ed., Sociolinguistic Variation, Oxford University Press, pp. 121-139. A case study of Short A and Short U for two British speakers from age 7 - 35, as documented in the film series directed by Michael Apted (http://imdb.com/title/tt0101254/). The document posted here is a pdf file of the manuscript as originally submitted for publication.

Linguistic Outcomes of Language Contact. In Chambers, Jack, Peter Trudgill and Natalie Schilling-Estes (eds.), Handbook of Sociolinguistics, Blackwell 2001, pp.638-668.