Publications
Joseph A. Stanley and Jessica Shepherd (2025). “LTH Affrication: A Sociolinguistic Indicator in the American West.” Journal of English Linguistics 53(2), 194-224. DOI 10.1177/00754242251343916
Jessica Shepherd (2025) StOp RePeAtInG mE!: The prosody of mocking repetition in American English University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 31.1 pdf
Presentations
Jess Shepherd (2025) Paths of sound change in the [mɪɾən]: /tən/ in two varieties of Michigan English Paper presented at NWAV 53
Jess Shepherd (2025) Phonological changes in post-tonic /tən/: borrowing from African American English to mainstream Michigan English. Paper presented at CLS 61.
Jess Shepherd (2024) Excrescent or epenthetic?: Predictions of gestural phonology. Paper presented at GLEAMS 2024: Graduate Linguistics Expo At Michigan State.
Jess Shepherd, Drake Howard, and Betsy Sneller. (2024) Pronunciation in the [mɪɾən]: Post-tonic /t/ flapping in Michigan: a non-white male-led change. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 52. Miami, Florida. November 7-9, 2024.
Jess Shepherd. (2024) StOp RePeAtInG mE!: The prosody of mocking repetition in American English. Paper presented at Penn Linguistics Conference 48. Philadelphia, PA.
Joseph A. Stanley, Jessica Shepherd, & Auna Nygaard. (2022) Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Western American English. Poster presentation at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.