Related audio-aligned and parsed corpora of vernacular speech:

Tortora, Christina, Beatrice Santorini, Frances Blanchette, & C.E.A. Diertani. 2017. The Audio-Aligned and Parsed Corpus of Appalachian English (AAPCAppE), version 0.1. URL: www.aapcappe.org

CUNY-CoNYCE projects (**indicates undergraduate student):

In Progress:

Newman, Michael & Kovid Pal Odouard**. From the bottom up: A cluster analysis of NYCE vowel systems.

 

2025

Newman, Michael & Maxwell Hyun**. 2025. Beyond Rhotic Binaries: (r) as a continuous variable in NYC English. Presentation at New Ways of Analyzing Variation-53. Ann Arbor, Michigan. Nov. 6.

Newman, Michael & Kovid Pal Odouard**. 2025. An Agglomerative Cluster Analysis of New York City English Vowel Systems. International Association of World Englishes-26. Giessen, Germany. July 26.

2024

Intelkofer, Darlene, Cece Cutler, and Jade Dong. 2024. You Guys, Y’all, or Youse? Multilingual, Ethnic, and Generational Influence on 2PP in New York City English. Paper presented at NWAV-52, Miami Beach.

Intelkofer, Darlene and Cece Cutler. 2024. Vowel Mergers in the Melting Pot: Parental Influence and Multilingualism in New York City English. Paper presented at NWAV-52, Miami Beach.

Intlekofer, Darlene, Cece Cutler, and Jade Dong. 2024. You Guys, Y’all, or Youse? Multilingual, Ethnic, and Generational Influence on 2PP in New York City English. Paper presented at NWAV-52. Miami Beach.

Michael Newman and Kovid Pal Odouard**. 2024. Letting the data speak: A cluster analysis of New York City English vowels. Paper presented at NWAV-52, Miami Beach.

2023

Pal-Odourd, Kovid** & Newman, Michael. 2023. Finding order (or not): Hierarchical Density Based Clustering of New Yorkers’ vowels. Poster presented at NWAV-51, Queens College

Intelkofer, D. and Cutler, C. 2023. The New York City Metro Area Survey: language attitudes and the low back merger. Paper presented at NWAV-51, Queens College.

Cutler, C. (2023-2024) PSC-CUNY, Cycle ENHC-54-16. ($7,868.60) The New York City Dialect Survey: data analysis and dissemination.

2022:

Ortiz, Omar and Haddican, Bill. 2022. Cot in the Act: Speaker Ethnicity Conditions Lexical Identification in the Context of the Low-Back Merger in New York City English. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 28.1: 136-145.

Cutler, C. 2022. Spelling norms in writing the New York City Accent on YouTube. Paper presented at the Language and Society seminar at the Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia. June 20-24, 2022.

Haddican, B., M. Newman, C. Cutler, C. Tortora. 2022. Cross-speaker covariation across six vocalic changes in New York City English. American Speech, 1-27. (winner of the Roger Shuy Award for best article published in the journal for 2022)

2021:

Cutler, C., Haddican B., Newman, M., Tortora, C. Policing the language of women in New York City: competing ideologies of correctness and solidarity. Colloquium talk for the Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Program, The Graduate Center, CUNY. November 10, 2021.

Kaplan, Jennifer, Cutler, C. Attitudinal Effects on Vowel Fronting Among Young Adults in New York City. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference, University of Texas, Austin, Oct. 19-24.

Haddican, B.; M. Newman; C. Cutler, C. Tortora. (2021). Aspects of change in New York City English short-a. Language Variation and Change, 33, 135–163.

2020:

Haddican, B. (2020). Aspects of change in New York City English short-a. Invited talk given at Integrated Language Science and Technology Seminar at Penn. January 24, 2020.

Tortora, C. “Parsed corpora of vernacular speech: challenges and prospects for the study of syntactic variation,” invited talk given in the Accessing English Dialect Syntax session, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 4, 2020.

Tortora, C. “Introducing Linguistics Through Hands-on Research,” invited talk given in the Teaching Large General Linguistics Classes session, Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 3, 2020.

2019:

Tortora, C. “From Italian to Italian American: Linguistic research, cultural heritage, community outreach,” invited talk given at Stony Brook University, Center for Italian Studies, October 23, 2019.

Haddican, B., C. Cutler, A. Farinella, T. Zhu. 2019. The arrival of back vowel fronting in New York City English.  Poster presentation at NWAV 48.

Tortora, C. “How Italian Is Your English? Unmasking the hidden influence of Italian dialects on American speech,” invited talk given at the Center for Italian Studies, Stony Brook University, April 23, 2019.

Haddican, B., **A. Farinella, **T. Zhu. 2019.  “The arrival of back vowel fronting in New York City English. ” CUNY Sociolinguistics Lunch.  May 3, 2019.

2018:

Cutler, C. 2018 English in New York City and Beyond. Talk presented for a cohort of inmates earning their associates degree at the Taconic Women’s Correctional Facility, Nov. 27, 2018 organized by the Bard Prison Initiative (Amanda Vladick).

Haddican, B.,  C. Tortora, M. Newman, C. Cutler, C. A. Diertani, L. Eldridge, **S. Lagreca & **Z. Z. G. Tan. 2018. Systemic change and parent first-dialect effects in NYC English short-a variation. Talk given at NWAV 47.

Cutler, C. 2018. “therez a lobsta in da refrigerata”: metapragmatic representations of English in New York City. Spring 2018 CUNY Linguistics Colloquium Series. City University of New York Graduate Center. March 15, 2018.

Cutler, C. 2018.  “therez a lobsta in da refrigerata”: metapragmatic representations of English in New York City. Paper presented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS22), Auckland, NZ. 27-30, June. https://www.ss22.ac.nz/ 

Haddican, B. 2018. Aspects of change in the short-a system of New York City English. Invited talk given at Columbia University. New York. March 8, 2018.

Haddican, B., **Z. Z. G.Tan, **S. Lagreca, **R.Rich, **K. Werber,  M.Newman, C. Cutler, C. A. Diertani, C. Tortora. 2018. Parent L1-effects in NYC short-a variation. Poster presented at Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Newman, M. B. Haddican, and **Z. Z. G. Tan. 2018. The Problem of Raising PRICEs in New York, Paper presented at  Sociolinguistics Symposium-22, University of Auckland, NZ 27-30, June. https://www.ss22.ac.nz/

Fall 2017:

Cutler, C. 2017. “The Corpus of New York City English Outreach Project: Dialect and Multilingualism Awareness in our Schools and Communities,” talk given at the CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative, October 12, 2017, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Cutler, C. 2017. “Youz guyz gotta addz the Z’z at the endz’a yaz woidz, seez!: Metapragmatic commentary on New York City English,” Paper presented at the CULTURE AND IDENTITY CONFIGURATIONS:REFLECTIONS ON THE 21ST CENTURY. Hofstra University. October 26 and 27, 2017.

Cutler, C. 2017. “Youz guyz gotta addz the Z’z at the endz’a yaz woidz, seez!: Metapragmatic commentary on New York City English,” Poster presentation given at the 46th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV46), November 2-5, 2017, Madison, WI.

Newman, M., B. Haddican, G. Rachiele**, Z.G. Tan**. 2017. “Almost everyone in New York is raising PRICEs,” Poster presentation given at the 46th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV46), November 2-5, 2017, Madison, WI.

Tortora, C. 2017. “Introducing Linguistics Through Hands-on Research,” talk given at the Latin and Linguistics Workshop (LLW), October 13, 2017, Stony Brook University.

Spring 2017:

**Arriaga, S. 2017. “The low back vowel merger in New York City English,” poster presented at the Tenth meeting of the Toronto Undergraduate Linguistics Conference (TULCON 10), March 2-5, 2017. (Faculty Mentors: Michael Newman and Christina Tortora)

**Arriaga, S. 2017. “The low back vowel merger in New York City English,” paper presented at the 31st Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research, University of Memphis, April 6-8, 2017. (Faculty Mentors: Michael Newman and Christina Tortora)

**Chen, D. 2017. “The Effect of Age on Short a.”  Poster presentation given at Queens College Third Annual Linguistics and Communication Disorders Student Research Showcase, Queens College, May 8, 2017, Queens, NY.

**Desai, M. 2017. “The Presence of NYCE features in Young, Bilingual Speakers: A Case Study.”  Poster presentation given at Queens College Third Annual Linguistics and Communication Disorders Student Research Showcase, Queens College, May 8, 2017, Queens, NY.

Fall 2016:

Haddican, B., M. Newman, D. Johnson& **F. Kim. 2016. “The diffusion of the low back merger in New York City,” Poster presentation given at the 46th meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV45), November 4, 2016, Vancouver, B.C.

Haddican, B., 2016. “Multilingualism and language change in New York City: Insights from the Corpus of New York City English,” Talk given at The CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative, December 1, 2016.

Spring 2016:

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Fall 2015:

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Spring 2015:

**Arriaga, S., **J. Colon, **J. Correale, & **W. Quilty. 2015. “Dialect Levelling: The Case of Non-Rhoticity in Staten Island English,” Poster presentation given at the Undergraduate Research Conference, College of Staten Island, April 30, 2015. (Faculty mentor: Christina Tortora)

**Doleh, N., **A. Mannino, **E. Moreno, & **N. Palladino. 2015. “Do you really know? Variation in the use of yanno in NYC English,” Poster presentation given at the Undergraduate Research Conference, College of Staten Island, April 30, 2015. (Faculty mentor: Christina Tortora)

**M. Kovacevic, **M. Kuppler, & **D. Melendez. 2015. “On the Presence and Syntactic Distribution of ‘spurious have‘ in New York City English,” Poster presentation given at the Undergraduate Research Conference, College of Staten Island, April 30, 2015. (Faculty mentor: Christina Tortora)

**Millen, J., **S. Napoletano, & **K. Pellicano. 2015. “On the use of non-standard participles in Staten Island English,” Poster presentation given at the Undergraduate Research Conference, College of Staten Island, April 30, 2015. (Faculty mentor: Christina Tortora)