Recent Work

Dissertations in Progress:

Mary Robinson: Negative concord as a window into the social perception of morphological and syntactic variables

Recent Dissertations:

2021    
  Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez Beyond the Monolith: Documenting Ideologically-Conditioned Variation for Chanka Quechua Language Maintenance
2020    
  Ildikó Emese Szabó Representational limitations and consequences of phonetic accommodation: English and Hungarian speakers’ imitation of word-initial voiced and voiceless stops
2019    
  Allison Shapp Language and Identity: A Sociolinguistic Study of the Online and Offline Speech of Teenage Long Islanders
  Emily Nguyen Linguistic variation and social practice in a Vietnamese American student organization
2018    
  Becky Laturnus The Effects of Bias, Exposure, and Input Variation on Perceptual Adaptation to Non-Native Speech
  Zack Jaggers A Combined Sociolinguistic and Experimental Phonetic Approach to Loanword Variation and Adaptation
  Isaac Bleaman Outcomes of minority language maintenance: Variation and change in New York Yiddish
  Daniel Duncan Language Variation and Change in the Geographies of Suburbs
2017    
  Marie-Eve Bouchard Linguistic Variation and Change in the Portuguese of São Tomé
  Libby Coggshall Short-a in the Sixth Borough: A Sociophonetic Analysis of a Complex Phonological System in Jersey City
2016    
  Nicole Holliday Intonational Variation, Linguistic Style, and the Black/Biracial Experience
  Nate LaFave Video Gamers and the Linguistic Navigation of Collaborative Virtual Environments
2015    
  Carina Bauman Speaking of Sisterhood: Language and Identity in an Asian American Sorority
2014    
  Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz Ethnicity, L1 interference, and sound change in New York City
   Cara Shousterman  Speaking English in Spanish Harlem: Language Change in Puerto Rican English
   Amy Wong  Diverse Linguistic Resources and Multidimensional Identities: A Study of the Linguistic and Identity Repertoires of Second Generation Chinese Americans in New York City
 2012    
  Danny Erker  Re-thinking the Sociolinguistic Analysis of variable coda /s/ weakening: An instrumental acoustic-phonetic approach
 2011    
  Sonya Fix  Gender, ideology, and the negotiation of the racial(ized)self through language among white women with black social networks
   Simanique Moody  Language Contact and Regional Variation: A Study of Southeast Georgia
  Marcos Rohena-Madrazo Sociophonetic Variation in the Production and Perception of Obstruent Voicing in Buenos Aires Spanish

 

Recent Qualifying Papers:

2021    
  Chiara Repetti-Ludlow The Flap-Glottal Stop Alternation: An Examination of the Factors and Populations Driving Linguistic Change
2019    
  Maddie Gilbert Contact and variability: Sociophonetics of spirantization and
aspiration in Montevideo and Rivera Spanish
2018    
  Ildikó Emese Szabó Phonetic Accommodation Throughout the Lifetime
2017    
  Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez Inter and intraspeaker variation in articulatory conflict resolution: Vowel lowering and consonant  place adaptation in Chanka Quechua
  Mary Robinson Wh-all in American English: A sociolinguistic investigation of syntactic variation
2016    
  Isaac Bleaman Language maintenance in the big city: The sociophonetics of New York Yiddish
  Dan Duncan Phonetic evidence problematizing the proposed speech island around St. Louis, Missouri
  Zack Jaggers Practicing what the party preaches: The influence of attitudes and ideologies on loanword variation and adaptation
  Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez Linguistic and social constraints on minority language variation: The case of the uvular phoneme in Chanka Quechua
2014    
  Marie-Eve Bouchard Popular Brazilian Portuguese Through Capoeira: From Local to Global
  Marie-Eve Bouchard Negation in Popular Brazilian Portuguese: A variationist analysis
  Allison Shapp Variation in the Use of Twitter Hashtags
2013    
  Nicole Holliday “So You Black or What?”: An Analysis of the Role of Prosodic & Morphosyntactic Variation in Biracial Identity Construction
  Nate LaFave Perception of Regional Dialect Differences Within Individual Lexical Items
2012    
  Carina Bauman Social Evaluation of Asian Accented English
  Luiza Newlin-Lukowicz TH-stopping in New York City English: Substrate effect turned ethnic marker?
  Nate LaFave A Morphophonological Investigation of English Adjective Gradation. Perception of regional dialect differences within individual lexical items.
2011    
  Emily Nguyen The urban/rural distinction: Monophthongal (ow) in Minnesota