News

2016

• Dan Duncan is recognized by the American Name Society as the Emerging Scholar of the year for his paper titled, “Understanding St. Louis’ love for hoosier.” (December, 2016)
• Laurel Mackenzie’s paper, The dynamics of variation in individuals, is published in Linguistic Variation. (December, 2016)
• Laurel Mackenzie’s paper, Production planning effects on variable contraction in English, is published in Selected Proceedings of NWAV 44. (December, 2016)
• NYU Sociolinguists present at the Acoustical Society of America (December, 2016)
  • Nicole Holliday (PhD 2016): Bermudian English: An acoustic analysis of vowel properties with implications for sociophonetic variation
  • Becky Laturnus: Comparative acoustic analyses of non-native English: the search for systematic variation
• Renée Blake discusses race and language on WNYC. (December, 2016)
• NYU Sociolinguists present at NWAV 45 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (November, 2016).
  • Isaac Bleaman & Dan Duncan: The Gettysburg Corpus: Testing the proposition that all tense /ae/’s are created equal
  • Dan Duncan: Merger just wasn’t in the CARDs in St. Louis: CORD-CARD as a near-merger
  • Danny Erker (PhD 2012): Contact, convergence, and covariation: What Mr. Rogers knows about language change
  • Greg Guy & Aria Adli: Widening horizons: cross-cultural approaches to linguistic variation
  • Greg Guy & Livia Oushiro: Lectal cohesion in São Paulo Portuguse: a look at the social factors
  • Nicole Holliday (PhD 2016): A perception study in black and white: examining the effects of intonational variables on judgments of ethnicity
  • Nicole Holliday (PhD 2016): But what makes him sound black? Explorations in the production and perception of intonational variation
  • Zack Jaggers: Practicing what the party preaches: loanword variation, langauge contact, and politics
  • Becky Laturnus, Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez, Raquel Chavez, & Greg Guy: Dialect, priming, and frequency effects on (-ING) variation in English
  • Laurel Mackenzie: Variation, change, and child language learners: a case study of variable voicing in English plurals
  • Laurel Mackenzie & Hilary Wynne: Eliciting copula variation in the lab
  • Marcos Rohena-Madrazo (PhD 2011), Brandon Baird, Mark Balderston & Caroline Cating: Gendered and racialized perceptions of Spanish-accented English: the case of lexically specific phonology switches
  • Natalie Povilonis de Vilchez: Linguistic and social constraints on minority language variation: the case of the uvular phoneme in Chanka Quechua
  • John Singler: Legacy: the vowel systems of Liberia’s Englishes
• Renée Blake publishes ‘Toward heterogeneity: a sociolinguistic perspective on the classification of black people in the twenty-first century’ in Raciology
• Greg Guy publishes Coherence, covariation and bricolage in Lingua.