Can variationist researchers extract relevant social categories from linguistic data instead of or in addition to testing hypotheses with categories as constructed by researchers? This idea was inspired by two articles with Bill Haddican as lead author (Haddican, et al. 2021, 2022), which noted interesting demographic patterns among various changes in progress. I am currently working on with Kovid Pal Odouard, an undergraduate student at NYU to refine clustering strategies and see to what extent various combinations of vowels and perhaps later other phonetic features can usefully be clustered. Here is a link to our project launch poster presented at NWAV 51 at Queens College (October 14, 2023) along with the bibliography.
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