Shana poplack biography of abraham

American linguist living in Canada, variation theory specialist

Shana Poplack CM FRSC
Nationality	Canadian
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