Research
Lewis, Stacy L. 2008. Making meaning through mocking: A case of the FAKE people. The 5th International Gender and Language Association Conference. Wellington, NZ, July 2008.
What happens when girls stop being real, and start being FAKE.
This is a study of the use of pitch in the mocking performance of "being fake" among young females in southern California, using data from the MTV reality TV show Laguna Beach.
Lewis, Stacy L. 2008. The role of ambiguity avoidance in (near-)mergers. New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 37. Houston, TX, November 2008.