Kaitlyn Owens

PhD candidate in French Linguistics at Indiana University-Bloomington

Publications

My published work spans from my work on sociophonetic variation in Québécois French music, to the phonological and phonetic properties of high vowels in Laurentian French, and to the phonological status of /ʎ/ in Occitan varieties.

I provide links to my published work and am happy to provide drafts of submitted and in prep work upon request.

Published

  1. Owens, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Les voix migratoires : La variation phonologique dans la musique pop québécoise. In Luc Baronian and Sandrine Tailleur (eds), Les français d’ici en mouvement. Presses de l’Université Laval.
  2. Owens, Kaitlyn. 2025. Clusters and complex segments in Strict CV: Insights from Gascon and Languedocien. In Michela Russo & Shanti Ulfsbjorninn (eds.), Romance minority languages: A challenge for linguistic theory. Special issue of Isogloss. Open Journal of Romance Linguistics 11(3), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.419.
  3. Owens, Kaitlyn. 2023. Re-evaluating the role of duration in Laurentian French high vowel laxing. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2023/Owens-CLA-2023.pdf.
  4. Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Kaitlyn Owens, Dav Rosychuk, and Anne-José Villeneuve. /ʁ/ all lengthening consonants created equal in Québec French? 2023. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2023/Lamontagne-etal-CLA-2023.pdf.
  5. Owens, Kaitlyn. 2023. Musical genres exhibit distinct sociophonetic targets: An analysis of Quebec French. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 8(1). 5490. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5490.
  6. Owens, Kaitlyn and Jeffrey Lamontagne. 2023. Community and lifespan changes in music: Sociophonetic variation in Laurentian French. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 8(1). 5531. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v8i1.5531.

Submitted

  1. Owens, Kaitlyn. Norms, personae, and identity: Musical genres as predictors of dialectal trait use in the albums of Québécois singers. Submitted to Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics on July 13, 2024. [Accepted]
  2. Owens, Kaitlyn. Sourcing data in popular music. In Malcah Yaeger-Dror, Marianna Di Paolo, and Christopher Strelluf (eds.), Sociophonetics: A student’s guide. [Invited contribution]
  3. Lamontagne, Jeffrey, Kaitlyn Owens, Dav Rosychuk, and Anne-José Villeneuve. La diphtongaison en français québécois télévisé. Submitted to Les Actes du colloque Le français parlé dans les médias on November 2, 2024. [Accepted]

In prep

  1. Owens, Kaitlyn, Monica Nesbitt, and Jeffrey Lamontagne. Teasing apart factors that influence cross-dialectal intelligibility: A study of Hexagonal and Laurentian French. To be submitted to Language and Speech.
  2. Owens, Kaitlyn and Monica Nesbitt. Unraveling a chain shift: Northern Cities Shift apparent-time change and style shifting in Michigan. To be submitted to Language Variation and Change.
  3. Tézil, David and Kaitlyn Owens. Beyond a continuum: The effect of prestige on /r/ and /w/ variation in Haitian Creole. To be submitted to Language in Society.
  4. Owens, Kaitlyn and David Tézil. The sound of Haiti: Investigating the phonetic correlates of Haitian French vowels. To be submitted to Journal of French Language Studies.