Jennifer Sullivan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jennifer Sullivan plays a role.
Articles
2012 The why of Belfast rises New Perspectives on Irish English, Migge, Bettina and Máire Ní Chiosáin (eds.), pp. 67–84 | Article
Why do Belfast English speakers produce statements with final intonational rises? This paper introduces analyses from a new corpus of Belfast data from 3 female speakers. The primary research question is whether these Belfast rises have arisen through gradual phonetic change from a more typical… read more
2012 Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 139–154 | Article
While his eponymous basic vocabulary lists and the study of language divergence may be Swadesh’s most appreciated legacies, we demonstrate that phonetic quantification of language varieties also follows very much in the tradition of Swadesh’s own work. We compare a few different measures of… read more
2010 Phonetic comparison, varieties, and networks: Swadesh’s influence lives on here too Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic Diversity: Commemorating the centenary of the birth of Morris Swadesh, Wichmann, Søren and Anthony P. Grant (eds.), pp. 325–340 | Article
While his eponymous basic vocabulary lists and the study of language divergence may be Swadesh’s most appreciated legacies, we demonstrate that phonetic quantification of language varieties also follows very much in the tradition of Swadesh’s own work. We compare a few different measures of… read more