Events

The NYU SocioLab is located at (3rd Floor Lounge, room 308), 10 Washington Place.  Lab meetings are at 11:00 (unless otherwise noted) on Fridays once or twice a month.  Colloquia and Working Group in Urban Sociolinguistics events are generally held on Fridays in Room 104, 10 Washington Place.  CUNY Sociolinguistics Lunches are held at the CUNY Graduate Center (365 5th Ave) from 2:00pm-4:00pm and are free to attend.

Upcoming Lab Meetings

Spring 2024:

  • January 26th: Dr. Gillian Gallagher (joint meeting with NYU PepLab)
  • March 8th: Dr. Renée Blake: (12:30pm)
  • March 15th: Open House – José Álvarez Retamales
  • March 29th: Marc Barnard
  • April 5th: Jon Stevenson
  • April 19th: Colloquium Nominations

Past Lab Meetings

Fall 2023:

  • September 15th: Welcome, discussion of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks
  • October 6th: NWAV practice talks (Dr. Greg Guy, Chiara Repetti-Ludlow & Dr. Renée Blake, Alden McCollum)
  • October 20th: Nyya Toussaint (NYC CLACS)
  • November 17th: Dr. Zvjezdana Vrzić

Spring 2023:

  • April 15th: Flapping and Rhoticity in Ghanaian English (Selikem Gotah)
  • March 25th: Null subjects in Portuguese: comparing linguistic and social constraints in multiple speech communities (Dr. Greg Guy)
  • March 4th: Unwitting Convergence: Kolokwa and Liberian Settler English (Dr. John Singler, Dr. Allison Shapp, and Michael Marinaccio)
  • January 28th: Tracking stylistic variation over a very long lifespan (Dr. Laurel MacKenzie) 

Spring 2022:

This semester, the Sociolab will have six meetings:  January 28th: Dr. Laurel Mackenzie; February 25th: Open House Planning / Colloquium Nominations; March 4th: Dr. John Singler, Dr. Allison Shapp and Michael Marinaccio; March 11th: Open House; March 25th: Dr. Greg Guy; April 15th: Selikem Gotah (NYU) 

Due to the Pandemic, all Sociolab meetings this semester will have hybrid methods for attendance. 

Attend Sociolab meetings via this zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/92831273069 Please email the Sociolab Manager José Álvarez Retamales at jj.alvarezretamales@nyu.edu for any inquiries regarding the status and location of the meetings listed below.

Fall 2021:

On December 10th SocioLab presented: A New Look at A-prefixing in Appalachian English, from Selikem Gotah, Gregory Guy, Laurel MacKenzie, Abed Qaddoumi, and Begum Saridede.  On October 29th SocioLab presented: What’s in a Grammar? Variation in American English Negation from Frances Blanchette (Penn State) and Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason).  On October 8th SocioLab presented:

    • Variation in the production of flaps and glottal stops: The factors and populations driving early-stage language change from Chiara Repetti-Ludlow.
    • Evaluating the efficacy of token exclusion based on high bandwidth in sociolinguistic data from Michael Marinaccio, Allison Shapp, and John Singler.

On October 1st SocioLab presented: “Nobody didn’t dare…in them days”: Subject negative concord in British English varieties from Gary Thoms and Mary Robinson On September 17th SocioLab presented: A Benchmark for Measuring Social Biases in QA Models from Alicia Parrish, Angelica Chen, Phu Mon Htut, Nikita Nangia, Vishakh Padmakumar, Jason Phang, Jana Thompson, and Samuel R. Bowman.

Fall 2020:

September 9/18 Sociolab Reads: Rickford, J. R., & King, S. (2016). October: 10/2 Sociolab Reads: Holliday & Villarreal. (2020). 10/16 Sociolab Reads: Weissler & Brennan (2020) November: 11/13 Sociolab Reads:King, S. (2020)

Spring 2020:

February: 2/12: Planning and Scheduling for Open House. 2/26 Colloquium nomination and Planning. April: Sociolab presents: Kimberley Baxter “Complementizer Trace Effects in Jamaican Patwa.”

 

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