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

Spring Semester, 2007

This semester I am offering two courses for credit:

Linguistics 102. Introduction to Sociolinguistics.

Linguistics 660. Language Change across the Lifespan. The seminar meets Thursdays 9 - 11:00 at the Linguistics Lab, 3700 Market St., Suite 300. 
 

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

At present (8/14/06), the only document available on the LCAL page is a reading list I put together on the topic several years ago. It will be updated shortly!

Recent Papers

Language Change across the Lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French, Gillian Sankoff & Hélène Blondeau. 8/6/06. Under review, Language. All tables and diagrams related to this paper are to be found in this pdf file, except for Figures 3, 4, and 5, in a separate file.

Age grading in retrograde movement: the inflected future in Montréal French, Gillian Sankoff & Suzanne Evans Wagner. In press, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, October 2006. (The document posted here is a pdf file of the article as it will appear).

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.