Samantha Litty
List of John Benjamins publications in which Samantha Litty is involved.
Articles
2024 Chapter 10. Language dominance across the lifespan in Wisconsin German and English varieties: Voice onset time and final obstruent neutralization, 1863–2013 Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change: Historical sociolinguistic perspectives, Sanz-Sánchez, Israel (ed.), pp. 234–263 | Chapter
Large-scale German immigration to Wisconsin began in the first half of the 19th century and continued until about World War I. These immigrants built German-speaking institutions alongside English and other immigrant language institutions, allowing for the presence of German in many Wisconsin… read more
2019 Chapter 2. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German transfer to Wisconsin English Keeping in Touch: Emigrant letters across the English-speaking world, Hickey, Raymond (ed.), pp. 27–41 | Chapter
This chapter outlines German transfer to Wisconsin English based on the analysis of ego-documents written by German immigrants and their descendants to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century. The analysis of 111 letters from four generations of a German-American family revealed 450 instances… read more
2019 Chapter 7. Early immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 115–138 | Chapter
We explore the development of final obstruent neutralization (German Bad ‘bath’: /ba:d/ = [ba:t]) and other features of an emerging Wisconsin English variety that has been shaped by contact, while considering multiple factors such as input, contact, and influence from other varieties. We draw our… read more