Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research

Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research (Cambridge University Press) is now published and available for purchase! This book (edited by Anna Babel of The Ohio State University) has something for everyone, whether you're an experimentalist, a field interviewer, an ethnographer, a theorist, or some combination thereof. My chapter - Awareness and acquisition of new dialect features - addresses the extent to which awareness of a dialect feature is a prerequisite for change in that feature (spoiler: it's not).