​ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

 

1. Lease, S. & N. Shin. 2025. Linguistic convergence in U.S.-raised Spanish-English bilinguals’ nominal demonstrative use. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 1 - 14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000161. 

2. Shin, N. & S. Lease. 2025. The impact of addressee location on Spanish-English bilinguals’ nominal demonstratives. Acta Linguistica Academica. https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2024.00878. 

3. Lease, S. 2024. Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation: the case of Spanish word-initial /d/. Language Variation and Change. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954394524000176. 

4. Lease, S. 2023. A Usage-based account of paragogic /e/ in 20th Century New Mexican Spanish. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2023-2017.

5. Lease, S., N. L. Shin & E. Bird-Brown. 2022. Community norms and lexical frequency shape U.S. bilingual children’s subject pronoun expression. Heritage Language Journal. https://doi.org/10.1163/15507076-bja10007.

6. Lease, S. 2022. Spanish in Albuquerque, New Mexico: Spanish-English bilingual adults’ and children’s vocalic realizations. Languages 7(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7010053.

7. Blair, K., & S. Lease. 2021. An examination of social, phonetic, and lexical variables on the lenition of intervocalic voiced stops by Spanish heritage speakers. Languages 6(2), https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6020108.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS

 

1. Koops. C. & S. Lease. Forthcoming. Segmental variation. In Y. Asahi, A. D’Arcy, & P. Kerswill (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics.

2. Lease, S. & M. Marchesi. 2022. A sociophonetic approach to the acquisition of Spanish rhotics in a bilingual community. In P. Farrell (ed.) Proceedings from the Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting 2022.