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Sali A. Tagliamonte

Sali A. Tagliamonte

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
46
Citations
12889
World Ranking
3519
National Ranking
205

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Sali A. Tagliamonte is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and arts and humanities, with a primary focus on linguistics and language studies.

Their scholarly output includes numerous recent papers published across various venues. Notable publications include:

  • Loss and emergence: (Double) demonstratives and 'indefinite this' in Ontario dialects, 2022, Journal of Pragmatics
  • ACoolComparison: Adjectives of Positive Evaluation in Toronto, Canada and York, England, 2020, Journal of English Linguistics
  • Obviously undergoing change: Adverbs of evidentiality across time and space, 2021, Language Variation and Change
  • Be like and the Constant Rate Effect: from the bottom to the top of the S-curve, 2020, English Language and Linguistics
  • The social embedding of a syntactic alternation: Variable particle placement in Ontario English, 2020, Language Variation and Change

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Katharina Pabst
  • Bridget L. Jankowski
  • Marisa Brook
  • Alison L. Chasteen
  • Karlien Franco

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • Language Variation and Change
  • American Speech
  • English Language and Linguistics
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Journal of Pragmatics

Sali A. Tagliamonte's book publications include titles from:

  • Cambridge University Press: Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation (expected 2025)
  • University of Zurich: Individual- vs. community-level variation: new evidence from variable (t,d) in Canadian English (2020)

Their main fields of study cover:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these, subfields frequently addressed are:

  • Linguistics and Language
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Gender Studies
  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

The primary research topics that characterize their work include:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research

Sali A. Tagliamonte was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013, recognized by the Academy of the Arts and Humanities.

Best Publications

  • Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation

    Sali A. Tagliamonte

  • Models, forests and trees of York English: Was/were variation as a case study for statistical practice

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;R. Harald Baayen

  • Variationist Sociolinguistics: Change, Observation, Interpretation

    Sali A. Tagliamonte

  • LINGUISTIC RUIN? LOL! INSTANT MESSAGING AND TEEN LANGUAGE

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;Derek Denis

  • African American English in the diaspora

    Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

  • Be like et al. beyond America: The quotative system in British and Canadian youth

    Sali Tagliamonte;Rachel Hudson

  • So weird; so cool; so innovative : The use of intensifiers in the television series «Friends»

    Sali Tagliamonte;Chris Roberts

  • Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers

    Rika Ito;Sali Tagliamonte

  • Peaks Beyond Phonology: Adolescence, Incrementation, and Language Change

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;Alexandra D'Arcy

  • He’s like, she’s like: The quotative system in Canadian youth

    Sali Tagliamonte;Alex D’Arcy

  • Was/were variation across the generations: View from the city of York

    Sali Tagliamonte

  • Frequency and variation in the community grammar: Tracking a new change through the generations

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;Alexandra D'Arcy

  • There's No Tense Like the Present: Verbal -s Inflection in Early Black English.

    Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

  • So different and pretty cool! Recycling intensifiers in Toronto, Canada

    Sali A. Tagliamonte

  • So who? Like how? Just what?: Discourse markers in the conversations of Young Canadians

    Sali Tagliamonte

  • African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from old-line Nova Scotians

    Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

  • New perspectives on an ol' variable: (t,d) in British English

    Sali Tagliamonte;Rosalind Temple

  • How'd you get that accent?: Acquiring a second dialect of the same language

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;Sonja Molfenter

  • The grammaticization of going to in (African American) English

    Shana Poplack;Sali Tagliamonte

  • The Stuff of Change: General Extenders in Toronto, Canada:

    Sali A. Tagliamonte;Derek Denis

Frequent Co-Authors

Shana Poplack
Shana Poplack University of Ottawa
Alison L. Chasteen
Alison L. Chasteen University of Toronto
R. Harald Baayen
R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen
Joan Bresnan
Joan Bresnan Stanford University

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