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Michael Senko

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Research

Publications

  1. D'Onofrio, A & Senko, M. (2026). Demarcating place authenticity in the Chicago vowel. Language in Society, 1-28.

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  2. Senko, M. & Voigt, R. (2025). Transgressing the binary: A computational approach to gendered reference. In S. Burnett & F. Vigo (Eds.), Battlefield Linguistics. (pp. 401-426). De Gruyter Mouton.

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Presentations

  1. Senko, M., Martín Rodríguez, L., Zur, A., & Jurafsky, D. (2026). Information and copula variation in African American Language. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54. 22–24 October, Montréal, Canada.

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  2. Brown, G., Senko, M., WuWong, J., de la Fuente, A., Ikedo, T., Martín Rodríguez, L., Tan, Y. L., & Podesva, R. J. (2026). Queering place, adequating difference: A rapid and anonymous survey investigating neighborhood ideology in San Francisco. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54. 22–24 October, Montréal, Canada.

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  3. Senko, M. (2026). A panel analysis of Downeast English reveals disparate gender trajectories in apparent time. Paper presented at American Dialect Society Research Incubator 1. 19–20 September, remote.

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  4. Senko, M., Brown, G., de la Fuente, A., Ikedo, T., Martín Rodríguez, L., Tan, Y. L., WuWong, J., & Podesva, R. J. (2026). Sexual identity, lexical association, and the ideological marking of place in San Francisco. Paper presented at Lavender Languages and Linguistics 32. 2–4 September, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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  5. D'Onofrio, A. & Senko, M. (2022). “If you say /ʃəkɑɡoʊ/, get the fuck out of my face”: Variable discourses of localized authenticity in the Chicago vowel. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50. 13–15 October, San Jose, CA.

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  6. Senko, M. (2022). Transgressing the binary: A computational sociolinguistic approach to gendered language practices. Paper presented at Northwestern Linguistics QP Fest 2022. 3 June, Evanston, Illinois.

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  7. Senko, M. & Voigt, R. (2022). Transgressing the binary: Gendered language practices on Twitter. Paper presented at Lavender Languages and Linguistics 28. 23–25 May, Catania, Italy.

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