2026
Buchstaller, Isabelle and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Life-span changes and the history of English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), New Cambridge History of the English Language: Britain, Ireland and Europe. (The New Cambridge History of the English Language), vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. 49–80.
Ayiega, Mofart and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Morphological leveling of noun class agreement in urban Swahili. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 11 (1): 6078.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Commentary – Style and social meaning across the lifespan. In Isabelle Buchstaller and Karen V. Beaman (eds.), Connecting the Individual and the Community in Sociolinguistic Panel Research. Routledge. 96-103.
2025
Hummel, Joshua R., Jordan Holley, Robin Dodsworth and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Conceptualizing and coding social class in linguistic corpora. In Christopher Cieri, Lauren Hall-Lew, Katie Drager and Malcah Yaeger-Dror (eds.), Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. Oxford University Press. 232-259.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Betsy Sneller and Jack Rechsteiner. Sociolinguistic research projects as brands. Linguistics Vanguard 11(1): 459-471.
2021 – 2023
2023. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Including older adults in variationist sociolinguistics via mobile self-recording. Journal of Language and Aging Research 1(1): 23-26.
2022. Sneller, Betsy, Suzanne Evans Wagner, and Yongqing Ye. MI Diaries: Practical and ethical challenges. Linguistics Vanguard 8(3): 307-319. [open access! and don’t miss the supplementary materials]
2021. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. What’s the point of panel studies?. In Karen Beaman and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Language Variation and Language Change Across the Lifespan: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives from Panel Studies. Routledge. 267-280.
2020
Sankoff, Gillian and Suzanne Evans Wagner. The long tail of language change: A trend and panel study of Québecois French futures. Canadian Journal of Linguistics 65(2): 246-275.
Wang, Xiaomei and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Local identity and standardization: Evidence from Tianjin Chinese tone sandhi. In Ruaridh Purse and Yosiane White (eds), University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 26.2: Selected papers from NWAV 48.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Review of Meaning and Variation: The Third Wave in Sociolinguistics by Penelope Eckert. Language in Society 49(5): 775-778.
2019
Nesbitt, Monica, Suzanne Evans Wagner and Alexander Mason. A tale of two shifts: Movement toward the Low Back Merger Shift in Lansing, Michigan. In Kara Becker (ed), The Low Back Merger Shift: Uniting the Canadian Vowel Shift, the California Vowel Shift, and Short Front Vowel Shifts across North America. Publications of the American Dialect Society 104.
2018
Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.) Panel Studies of Variation and Change. Routledge Studies in Language Change. Routledge Ltd.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Sali Tagliamonte. What makes a panel study work? Researcher and participant in real time. In Suzanne Evans Wagner & Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Panel Studies of Variation and Change. Routledge. 213-232.
Buchstaller, Isabelle and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Introduction: Using panel data in the sociolinguistic study of language variation and change. In Suzanne Evans Wagner & Isabelle Buchstaller (eds.), Panel Studies of Variation and Change. Routledge. 1-18.
Pichler, Heike, Suzanne Evans Wagner and Ashley Hesson. Old-age language variation and change: Confronting variationist ageism. Language and Linguistics Compass 12 (6): e12281.
Uehara, Sayako and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Progressive outliers in listener perception of sound change. In Jordan Kodner and Lacey Wade (eds.) University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 24.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 46. Article 18, 157-166.
2016
Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Maya Ravindranath Abtahian. Social networks and the study of language variation and change. In Zachary P. Neal (ed.), The Handbook of Applied Systems Science. London: Routledge. 553-567.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Ashley Hesson and Heidi Little. Comparing referential general extender use across registers in American English speech. In Heike Pichler (ed.), Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change in English: New Methods and Insights. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Alexander Mason, Monica Nesbitt, Erin Pevan and Matt Savage. Reversal and re-organization of the Northern Cities Shift in Lansing, Michigan. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 22.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 44. pp. 171-179.
2015
Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Ashley Hesson, Kali Bybel and Heidi Little. Quantifying the referential function of general extenders in North American English. Language in Society 44(5): 705-731.
2015. Abtahian, Maya Ravindranath and Suzanne Evans Wagner. Sociolinguistics: Language in social environments. In Keith Allan (ed.),The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. Routledge. pp. 264-280.
2014
Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Ashley Hesson. Listener sensitivity to the frequency of socially meaningful linguistic cues affects language attitudes. Language and Social Psychology 33(6): 651-666.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Pinning down enregisterment: Using Pinterest to teach students about dialect enregisterment. American Speech 89(2): 208-218.
Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Linguistic correlates of Irish-American and Italian-American ethnicity in high school and beyond. Language and Communication 35:75-87. In Lauren Hall-Lew and Malcah-Yaeger Dror (eds.) “New Perspectives on Linguistic Variation and Ethnic Identity in North America”, special issue.
2011 – 2013
2013. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. We act like girls and we don’t act like men: Ethnicity and local language change in a Philadelphia high school. Language in Society 42(4): 361-383.
2013. Wagner, Suzanne Evans, Kali Bybel and Kathryn VerPlanck. Back and forth with classes and that kind of thing: A panel study of general extender use in Philadelphia. In Alena Barysevich, Alexandra D’Arcy and David Heap (eds.), Proceedings of Methods XIV: Papers from the Fourteenth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology. Bamberg Studies in English Linguistics. Pieterlen, Switzerland: Peter Lang. pp. 337-348. More information here.
2012. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Real-time evidence for age grad(ing) in late adolescence. Language Variation and Change 24 (2): 179-202.
2012. Wagner, Suzanne Evans. Age grading in sociolinguistic theory. Language and Linguistics Compass 6(6): 371-382. Reprinted 2014 in Robert Bayley & Richard Cameron (eds.), Language Variation and Change: Critical Concepts in Linguistics. Volume 3. New York & London: Routledge Ltd.
2012. Sankoff, Gillian, Suzanne Evans Wagner and Laura Jensen. The long tail of language change: Québécois French futures in real time. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 40. pp. 107-116.
2012. Hasty, J. Daniel, Ashley Hesson, Suzanne Evans Wagner and Robert Lannon. Finding needles in the right haystack: Double modals in medical consultations. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 18.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 40.pp. 41-47.
2011. Wagner, Suzanne Evans and Gillian Sankoff. Age grading in the Montréal French future tense. Language Variation and Change 23 (3): 275-313.