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):

To appear:

Cutler, C., U. Røyneland, & Z. Vrzić. (eds.). In Preparation. Language Activism and the Role of Scholars. CUP.

In Progress:

Fix, Sonya, Cutler, C., Blake, R., Holliday, N. (forthcoming) Refocusing Blackness and Whiteness in Studies of Sociolinguistic Variation. In Cieri, C., Yaeger-Dror, M. and Drager, K. (eds.) Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. Oxford University Press.

Newman, M. & R. Orozco. To appear. Variation in Large Communities 2: Monolingual Ethos. In Kerswill, P., Asahi, Y., & Darcy, A. (Eds.) Routledge Handbook of Variationist Sociolinguistics.

Newman, M. In Press. New York City English. Encyclopedia of World Englishes, US and Canadian Englishes. Bolton, K. (General Editor), Jenks, C. (US and Canada Editor).

Fall 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

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

Spring 2023:

Cutler, C. (2023). Language, embodiment and affect in sociolinguistics. April 5, 2023.Center for the Study of Language and Society, University of Bern, Switzerland.

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

Fall 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., Ahmar, M. and Bahri, W. (eds.). (Nov. 2022). Digital orality: vernacular writing in online spaces. Palgrave. 

Cutler, C. 2022. Orality, Alignment, and Stance in YouTube Comments about the New York City Accent. In Digital orality: vernacular writing in online spaces. C. Cutler, M. Ahmar, and W. Bahri (eds.). Palgrave. 159-187. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10433-6_6

Summer 2022:

Cutler, C. 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.

Cutler, C. 2022. Teachers’ reactions to ethnolectal labels: Challenges to the principle of error correction. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, Ghent, Belgium. July 13-16.

Cutler, C. 2022. New York City dialect, speech acts, and anti-blackness in Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland. In Valentin Werner and Christoph Schubert (eds.), 205-226. Stylistic Approaches to Pop Culture. Routledge.

Spring 2022:

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)

Fall 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.

Spring 2021:

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.

Fall 2020:

Cutler, C. PSC-CUNY, Cycle 51. ($5,717.20). Writing dialects online: oral forms of language in digital spaces.

Cutler, C. Centering written metapragmatic commentary in sociolinguistics: the social meanings of the New York City “accent” on YouTube, in Identity perspectives from peripheries, Yoshiko Matsumoto & Jan-Ola Östman (eds.). John Benjamins.

Spring 2020:

Cutler, C. (2020). Metapragmatic comments and orthographic performances of a New York accent on YouTube. World Englishes, 39(1), 36-53.

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.

Fall 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.

Spring 2019:

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.

Fall 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.

Spring 2018:

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 Language and Linguistics (with a focus on New York City English). Talk presented for a cohort of inmates earning their associates degree at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, Jan. 10, 2018 organized by the Bard Prison Initiative (Pamela Wallace).

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)