Output
2024
Lelia Glass. The red dress is cute: Why subjective adjectives are more often predicative. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. [preprint]
Lelia Glass, Markus Dickinson, Detmar Meurers, and Chris Brew. Language and Computers. Berlin: Language Science Press (open access!).
Aiming to widen the bridge between linguistics and computing by welcoming humanities-confident students to explore technical tools, and encouraging computing-confident students to appreciate the social/structural richness of language data. I wish I had taken a course like this as an undergraduate linguistics major!
Lelia Glass and Jon Forrest. Testing the effect of political ideology on the Southern Vowel Shift among White Georgians. Journal of English Linguistics.
Marcus Ma, Lelia Glass, and James N. Stanford. Introducing Bed Word: a new automated speech recognition tool for sociolinguistic interview transcription. Linguistics Vanguard.
2023
Lelia Glass. Using the Anna Karenina Principle to explain why CAUSE favors negative-sentiment complements. Semantics and Pragmatics.
Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, Jon Forrest, and Lelia Glass. Boomer Peak or Gen X Cliff? From SVS to LBMS in Georgia English. Language Variation and Change.
Made the front page of the Wall Street Journal! ("Sorry, y'all: Georgia's deep southern accent is slipping away," by Scott Calvert, 2 October 2023).
2022
Lelia Glass. Quantifying relational nouns in corpora. English Language & Linguistics.
Lelia Glass. The negatively biased Mandarin belief verb YIWEI. Studia Linguistica.
Will Gantt, Lelia Glass, and Aaron Steven White. Decomposing and recomposing event structure. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
2021
Lelia Glass. The lexical and formal semantics of distributivity. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Lelia Glass. English verbs can omit their objects when they describe routines. English Language & Linguistics.
2019
Lelia Glass. Adjectives relate individuals to states: Evidence from the two readings of English Determiner+ Adjective. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics.
Beth Levin, Lelia Glass, and Dan Jurafsky. Systematicity in the semantics of noun compounds: The role of artifacts vs. natural kinds. Linguistics.
2018
Lelia Glass. Distributivity, lexical semantics, and world knowledge. Dissertation, Stanford University Department of Linguistics.
Lelia Glass. Deriving the distributivity potential of adjectives via measurement theory. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, edited by Patrick Farrell.
2015
Lelia Glass. Strong necessity modals: Four socio-pragmatic corpus studies. Selected papers from the Proceedings of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), edited by Sabriya Fisher.