NYUers past and present are putting in a strong showing at this week's 49th annual New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference, hosted online by UT Austin. Below is a list of papers, posters, and organized sessions with NYU faculty, students, and alumni (in bold) as authors
The development of indexicality: Perceptual evidence from 4 to 17 year olds
Charlotte Vaughn, Kara Becker (PhD 2010)
A Trilogy of Talking Black in America: The Mini-Series
Walt Wolfram, Renee Blake, Neal Hutcheson, Danica Cullinana, Sharese King, Marissa Morgan
Increased intelligibility (but not formality) in Zoom interviews
Isaac L. Bleaman (PhD 2018), Katie Cugno, Annie Helms
Nonconvergence toward the standard: The maintenance of a distinctive use of rhotics among the Santomean diaspora in Portugal
Marie-Eve Bouchard (PhD 2017), Félix Desmeules-Trudel
Attitudinal Effects on Back Vowel Fronting Among Young Adults in New York City
Jennifer Kaplan, Cecelia Cutler (PhD 2002)
Policing the language of women of color in New York City: competing ideologies of correctness and solidarity
Cecelia Cutler (PhD 2002), Michael Newman, Bill Haddican (PhD 2005), Christina Tortora
Are My Vowels Valid? Assessing speech acoustics from remote recordings on smartphones and video calls
Valerie Freeman, Paul De Decker (PhD 2010)
Partial structure in St. Louis’ implementation of the Northern Cities Shift
Daniel Duncan (PhD 2018)
Preterite variation in Tyneside English
Bilal Alsharif, Tian Fu, Ruijin Lan, Zhuxuan Li, Sofia Serbicki, Daniel Duncan (PhD 2018)
The Prosody of the Pennsylvania Dutch Question
Amanda Eads (Steinhardt CSD), Frances Blanchette, Johan De La Rosa, Amanda Harman, Li-Fang Lai
Filled pauses and the conservative contours of contact-induced change - Data from Spanish in Boston
Daniel Erker (PhD 2012)
Subject pronoun expression in Tehran, São Paulo and Lisbon: A cross-cultural study of gender, age and education
Gregory Guy, Aria Adli
Homogeneity and heterogeneity in null subjects: A cross-linguistic and cross-
community comparison
Gregory Guy, Rafael Orozco (PhD 2004), Daniel Erker (PhD 2012)
“The Switch Up is Real”: Examining Prosodic Correlates of Style Shifting on Twitter
Nicole Holliday (PhD 2016)
The English particle verb alternation shows gradient sensitivity to compositionality
Naomi Lee, Laurel MacKenzie
Evaluating the efficacy of token exclusion based on high bandwidth in sociolinguistic data
Michael Marinaccio (BA 2020), Allison Shapp (PhD 2019), John Victor Singler
The Sociophonetics of Video-Mediated vs. In-Person Interactions
Yoojin Kang, Jennifer Nycz (PhD 2010)
Breaking with Tradition: The Effect of the Verb on Pronominal Expression Reanalyzed
Rafael Orozco (PhD 2004), Johnny Orozco
Variation in the production of flaps and glottal stops: The factors and populations driving early-stage linguistic change
Chiara Repetti-Ludlow
“‘Couldn't nobody’ sounds more familiar to me than the other way”: Perceptions of word order variation in English Negative Concord
Mary Robinson
“Nobody didn't dare...in them days”: Subject negative concord in British English varieties
Gary Thoms, Mary Robinson