Ann Lesley Milroy (born March 5, 1944, in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) is a sociolinguist, and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.
[1] Her work in sociolinguistics focuses on urban and rural dialectology, language ideology and standard.
She moved to the United States in 1994, where she worked as a professor and the chair of the department of linguistics at the University of Michigan[3] until she retired in 2004.
Milroy's most famous work examined social networks and linguistic variation in Belfast in the 1970s.
[4] Much of her work has been carried out conjointly with her husband James Milroy, and the two are co-authors to two widely influential books about English sociolinguistics and dialectology.
In addition, she has written over seven books and fifteen journal articles, worked as an editorial board member for several research journals, and lectured around the world on her research.
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