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          5. Shana Poplack

          American linguist living in Canada, variation theory specialist

          Shana Poplack

          CM FRSC

          NationalityCanadian
          Occupation(s)Linguist, University Professor

          Shana Poplack, CM FRSC is a Distinguished University Professor in the linguistics department of the University of Ottawa and three time holder of the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Linguistics.

          She is a leading proponent of variation theory,[1] the approach to language science pioneered by William Labov. She has extended the methodology and theory of this field into bilingual speech patterns, the prescription-praxis dialectic in the co-evolution of standard and non-standard languages, and the comparative reconstruction of ancestral speech varieties, including African American vernacular English.

          She founded and directs the University of Ottawa Sociolinguistics Laboratory.[2]

          Biography

          Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in New York City, she studied at Queens