Education

PhD in Linguistics, Stanford University, 2024
BA in Linguistics, Swarthmore College, 2016

Specialization

Sociolinguistics
Language variation & change
Sociophonetics
Style
Language, gender, and sexuality

Awards, Grants, and Fellowshhips

   •  Best Student Paper Award, NWAV 50
   •  Stanford Humanities Center Dissertation Prize, Stanford University, 2022-2023
   •  Gilliland Award, Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California, 2021
   •  Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2021
   •  Pigott Scholars Fellowship, Stanford University, 2020-2021
   •  Linguistics Department Research Grant, Stanford University, 2019
   •  LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship, University of California, Davis, 2019
   •  PhD tuition & stipend, Stanford University, 2017-2022
   •  Phi Beta Kappa, Swarthmore College, 2016
   •  BA with Honors, Swarthmore College, 2016
   •  Eugene M. Lang Summer Initiative Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2015
   •  National Science Foundation REU Grant, Swarthmore College, 2015
   •  Letitia M. Wolverton Class of 1913 Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2014-2015
   •  Hindi-Urdu Startalk Language Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2014

Publications

   •  To appear. Variation and change in prosody. Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics (eds.), Alexandra D'Arcy, Yoshiyuki Ahi, and Paul Kerswill.
   •  Esposito, Lewis. 2023. The stylistic progression of covarying changes in progress. Invited papers from NWAV50: University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.
   •  Esposito, Lewis, and Emily Lake. 2023. Complicating prevelar raising in the West. American Speech.
   •  Esposito, Lewis, and Chantal Gratton. 2022. Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors. Language in Society. 
   •  Esposito, Lewis. 2021. An experiment and distributional investigation of two 'non-culminating accomplishments' in Mandarin. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 6:689-700.
   •  Esposito, Lewis, and Christopher Potts. 2020. A probabilistic pragmatics for English singular some. Semantics and Linguistic Theory 30:22-42.
   •  Esposito, Lewis. 2020. Linking gender, sexuality, and affect: The linguistic and social patterning of phrase-final posttonic lengthening. Language Variation and Change 32:191-216.
   •  Karlgren, Jussi, Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton Panetti Kanera. Authorship profiling without using topical information. 2018. In Patrice Bellot, Chiraz Trabelsi, Josiane Mothe, Fionn Murtagh, Jian YunNie, Laure Soulier, Eric Sanjuan, Linda Cappellato, and Nicola Ferro, editors, Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2018).