I am a fifth year Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, where my advisor is William Labov. My research focuses on language variation and change.
The role of higher education in linguistic change
My dissertation research explores the interaction between higher education and linguistic change. I reconsider the categorization of the education variable and use both quantitative corpus-based and experimental methodologies to examine the linguistic and social embedding of changes in progress in Philadelphia and Raleigh. The full text of the dissertation proposal may be found here.
Papers
Prichard, Hilary and Meredith Tamminga. 2012. The impact of higher education on local phonology. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2.
Prichard, Hilary. 2010. Linguistic Variation and Change in Atlanta, Georgia. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 16.2.
Presentations
Upcoming: Where education and salience meet, local dialects retreat. With Robin Dodsworth. Paper to be presented at NWAV 42, Pittsburgh, October 2013.
Upcoming: Educational attainment and the actuation of sound change. Paper to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, January 2014.
Upcoming: Measures of education and participation in regional sound change. With Kyle Gorman. Paper to be presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, January 2014.
The role of higher education in socially-motivated change. Poster presented at UKLVC 9, Sheffield University, September 2013. [Poster]
Against a split phonology of Michif. With Kobey Shwayder. Paper presented at PLC 37, University of Pennsylvania 2013. [Abstract] [Slides]
Northern dialect evidence for the chronology of the Great Vowel Shift. Paper presented at NWAV 41, Indiana University, 2012. [Abstract] [Slides]
Northern England and the Great Vowel Shift: A dialect geographical approach. Paper presented at NEW 5, Nottingham Trent University, 2012.
The Impact of Higher Education on Local Phonology. With Meredith Tamminga. Paper presented at NWAV 40, Georgetown University, 2011. [Slides]
The Medical Consequences of Standard Pronunciation. Paper presented by Susan Tamasi at AAAL, Atlanta, 2010.
Linguistic Variation and Change in Atlanta, Georgia. Poster presented at NWAV 38, University of Ottawa, 2009.