Milroy, Lesley
sociolinguist, and a professor emerita at the University of Michigan.[1] She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in 1944. She studied and began her work in sociolinguistics in the UK. Lesley's work in sociolinguistics focuses on urban and rural dialectology, language ideology and standard.
Perhaps Milroy's most famous work studying examined social networks and linguistic variation in Belfast in the 1970s.[2] Much of her work has been carried out conjointly with her husband James Milroy, and the two are coauthors to two widely influential books about English sociolinguistics and dialectology.