I study the linguistic and social causes and outcomes of language shift in minoritized language communities from a variationist perspective. My dissertation focused on language shift and language change in a Garifuna community in Belize.
Students who have worked with me recently on Garifuna are Manasvi Chaturvedi and Cameron Greenop.
Abtahian, Maya R., M. Chaturvedi and C. Greenop. 2023. Garifuna. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0025100323000038
Abtahian, Maya R. 2020. Style, identity, and language shift. Language Ecology. 4(1): 17-38
Abtahian, Maya R. 2017. Language shift, endangerment and prestige: Kriol and Garifuna in Hopkins, Belize. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32(2): 339-364
Ravindranath, Maya. 2009. Language Shift and the Speech Community: Sociolinguistic Change in a Garifuna Community in Belize. Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 33.
Maya Ravindranath Abtahian 