Research article published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics coauthored by Arizona linguistics doctoral student

The upcoming issue of the Journal of Sociolinguistics will feature an article by William Cotter, a second year student in the Joint PhD program in Anthropology and Linguistics, coauthored with his colleague Uri Horesh. The article, entitled "Social integration and dialect divergence in coastal Palestine", investigates language change and wider processes of identity construction in the speech of Palestinians in the coastal Mediterranean city of Jaffa, as well as Jaffa refugees now living in the Gaza Strip.