Michael Newman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Newman plays a role.
Articles
2004 Peer group identification and variation in New York Latino English laterals English World-Wide 25:2, pp. 199–216 | Article
Following recent work showing that adolescent peer culture affiliation correlates with phonological variation, our research explores the effect of peer identities and national heritages on the English of Latino students in a New York City high school. Data were gathered in sociolinguistic… read more
1998 What can Pronouns Tell Us? A Case Study of English Epicenes Studies in Language 22:2, pp. 353–389 | Article
The article reports an oral corpus-based study of epicene pronominal constructions (i.e., pronouns coreferent with singular antecedents and referring to referents of indeterminate sex) in English. They is used in 60% of the tokens, he in 25%, and other forms were used minimally. That variation… read more