Nathan Young's CV, papers, and conferences

Publications

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IN PRESS | Sharma, D. & Young, N.J. (in press). Snapshots in time: Coding social factors in changing communities. In Yaeger-Dror, M. Cieri, C. & Drager, K. (Eds.) Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. Oxford University Press.

UNDER REVIEW | Young, N.J. (under review). Compressed and lowered vowel space in Stockholm’s multiethnolect –
Iconicity and markedness constraints. In Morand, M.-A. & Schmid, S. (Eds.) Sounds of European Multiethnolects. John Benjamins.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2023). Ett skakigt dagsläge för nordisk språkvariationsforskning – och några förslag för en ljusare framtid [A shaky state of affairs for variationist research in Scandinavia – and some suggestions for a brighter future]. (pp. 131–136) In Ganuza, N., Håkansson, D., Melander B. & Thelander, M. (Eds.) Variationslingvistik i Norden – språkförändringsprocesser i dagens samhälle [Variationist linguistics in Scandinavia – processes of language change in today's society].

LINK | Young, N.J., Britain, D. & Leemann, A. (2022). A blueprint for using deepfakes in sociolinguistic matched-guise experiments. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2022, Incheon, Korea, 5268–5272.

LINK | Young, N.J. & McGarrah, M. (2021). FAVE-Align for Nordic languages – Rapidly constructing a high-quality prototype for Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 1–27.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2021). The sociolectal and stylistic variability of rhythm in Stockholm. Language & Speech (ETAP4 Special Issue on Sociolinguistic Variation in Prosody), 1–37.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2021). ‘Benim’ – A new pronoun in Swedish. In H. Van de Velde, N. Haug Hilton, & Knooihuizen (Eds.), Studies in Language Variation: Selected Papers of ICLaVE10. John Benjamins.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2019). Rhythm in Late-modern Stockholm – Social stratification and stylistic variation in the speech of men (doctoral dissertation). Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2018). Rhythm in Stockholm’s two working-class varieties: Separate models predict intervocalic durational contrast. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2018, 448-452.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2018). Talrytmens sociala betydelse i det senmoderna Stockholm – Vokaldurationskontrast som ett indexikalt drag [The social meaning of rhythm in late-modern Stockholm – Vowel durational contrast as an indexical feature]. Nordand – Nordisk tidsskrift for andrespråksforskning 13(1), 41-63.

LINK | Young, N.J. (2018). Copycats, ja dom shouf' - Using hip hop to compare lexical replications in Danish and Swedish multiethnolects. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 24(2), 174-184.