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 |
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| 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 |