Josef Fruehwald
About Me
I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Linguistics, and an IGERT trainee at the University of Pennsylvania. My interests within linguistics are sociolinguistics, variation and change, phonetics, and phonology. At the moment, I'm splitting my time between the Penn Linguistics Department, the Sociolinguistics Lab, and the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. I'm scheduled to complete my dissertation May 2013.
Research
Linguistic variation is a complex and sensitive phenomenon, and data on it can be brought to bear on a number of different research questions. For example, linguistic systems are embedded in complex social structures, so linguistic variation can be informative about social meaning. My own research interests concern how linguistic variation can be informative about Language itself.
Contact
Dissertation
Proposal
| 2012 |
Phonological Involvement in Phonetic Change Proposal Manuscript ; Slides (view in Adobe Reader for animations) ; Slides source (knitr Rnw) ; R source code |
Working Papers and Proceedings →
| 2012 |
New results from hierarchical models of the community grammar Josef Fruehwald and Laurel MacKenzie Presented at NWAV 40 Published in Penn Working Papers in Linguistics Handout [PDF] |
| 2012 |
Redevelopment of a Morphological Class Presented at PLC 35, 2011 Published PWPL 18.1 Handout ; Paper |
| To appear |
Phonological Rule Change: The Constant Rate Effect Josef Fruehwald , Jonathan Gress-Wright and Joel Wallenberg Presented at NELS 40, 2009 Published Proceedings NELS 40 Paper |
| 2008 |
The Spread of Raising: Opacity, Lexicalization, and diffusion Presented at NWAV 36, 2008 Published Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 14.2 Paper |
| 2007 |
The Spread of Raising: Opacity, Lexicalization, and diffusion Published as Undergraduate Thesis Paper |
Journal Papers →
| 2013 |
One Hundred Years of Sound Change in Philadelphia: Linear Incrementation, Reversal, and Reanalysis William Labov , Ingrid Rosenfelder and Josef Fruehwald Published Language 89.1 p30-65 Paper |
| 2011 |
Cross Derivational Feeding is Epiphenomenal Josef Fruehwald and Kyle Gorman Presented at NAPhC 6, ILLS 2 [PDF] Published Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 2011:36-50 Paper |
Talks and Presentations →
| 2013 |
'I'm done my homework' - Case assignment in a stative passive. Josef Fruehwald and Neil Myler Presented at PLC 37 Handout [PDF] |
| 2012 |
Phonologically Conditioned Phonetic Change Presented at NWAV 41 Poster + Handout [PDF] |
| 2012 |
Phonology has an Early Infuence on Sound Change Presented at NELS 42 Poster [PDF] ; Handout [PDF] |
| 2011 |
Using Speech Community Data as Phonological Evidence Presented at NELS 42 Poster [PDF] |
| 2011 |
The Phonological Aspect of Phonetic Change Presented at NWAV 40 Handout [PDF] |
| 2011 |
Phonetic Change and Phonology Presented at MFM 19 Handout [PDF] |
| 2010 |
Mergers, Distinctions, and Shifts Presented at NSF IGERT 2010 Project Meeting Poster [PDF] |
| 2010 |
Vowel Shifts and the Phonology Phonetics Interface Presented at NAPhC 6 Handout [PDF] |
| 2009 |
Report from the R Study Group: What I couldn't have done otherwise Presented at Splunch Handout [PDF] ; R Code |
| 2008 |
Evaluation and simulation of exemplar theoretic -t/-d deletion Presented at NWAV 37 Handout [PDF] |