M.A., Linguistics, 2003 M.A. Qualifying Paper: Functional Unity and Choice of Repair: The Preceding Segment Effect on Epenthesis and t/d Deletion

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1 Jennifer Nycz Contact Information Department of Linguistics Voice: Georgetown University Fax: Poulton Hall th St. NW Web: Washington, DC Research Interests Phonological variation, sociolinguistics, phonological theory, phonetics, dialect contact, change over the lifespan, vowel systems, accommodation, individual differences in language variation, quantitative methods in linguistic research, social class as a sociolinguistic variable Education New York University, New York, NY Ph.D., Linguistics, 2011 Dissertation: Second Dialect Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Phonological Representation M.A., Linguistics, 2003 M.A. Qualifying Paper: Functional Unity and Choice of Repair: The Preceding Segment Effect on Epenthesis and t/d Deletion Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH B.A., Linguistics, 2000 Professional Positions Georgetown University, Washington, DC Assistant Professor of Linguistics Reed College, Portland, OR Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of York, York UK Research Assistant (full-time) Accent and Identity on the Scottish-English Border, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (PIs: Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas & Gerry Docherty) Supervisor: Dominic Watt Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT Research Assistant Imitation: A Tool for Studying Speech Perception, supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (PI: Carol A. Fowler) Links between Production and Perception in Speech, supported by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (PI: Douglas H. Whalen) Supervisor: Douglas N. Honorof New York University, New York, NY Research Assistant Consonant Cluster Variation in Singapore English Supervisor: Arto Anttila

2 Journal Articles Nycz, Jennifer New contrast acquisition: Methodological issues and theoretical implications. English Language and Linguistics 17(2): Nycz, Jennifer Changing words or changing rules? Second dialect acquisition and phonological representation. Journal of Pragmatics 52: De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz Are tense [æ]s really tense? The mapping between articulation and acoustics. Lingua 122(7): Anttila, Arto, Vivienne Fong, Stefan Benus & Jennifer Nycz Consonant clusters in Singapore English. Phonology 25(2): Book Chapters Nycz, Jennifer Awareness and acquisition of new dialect features. To appear in Babel, Anna (eds), Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research. Cambridge University Press. Docherty, Gerard J., Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, Jennifer Nycz & Dominic Watt Language and identity on the Scottish/English border. To appear in Watt, Dominic & Carmen Llamas (eds.), Language, Borders and Identity. Edinburgh University Press. De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz The technology of conducting sociolinguistic interviews. In Mallinson, Christine, Becky Childs & Gerard van Herk (eds.), Data Collection in Sociolinguistics. Routledge. Conference Proceedings Nycz, Jennifer & Lauren Hall-Lew Best practices in measuring vowel merger. Proceedings of the Meetings on Acoustics De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis?, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 39. Article 7. Docherty, Gerard J., Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Damien Hall & Jennifer Nycz Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English border. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz Are tense [æ]s really tense? University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 12.1: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium Nycz, Jennifer Global faithfulness and choice of repair. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 10.2: Selected Papers from NWAV Nycz, Jennifer The dynamics of near-merger: Accounting for gradience in phonology. Proceedings of ConSOLE XIII. Anttila, Arto, Vivienne Fong, Stefan Benus & Jennifer Nycz Deriving consonant cluster phonotactics: evidence from Singapore English. Proceedings of NELS

3 Invited Talks Socioindexicality in Exemplar Theory: An elaborated model. University of Pennsylvania Changing words or changing rules? Using Second Dialect Data to Test Phonological Theories. George Mason University Second dialect acquisition and phonological theory. Phon&Phon Group, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan) Changing dialects, changing representations? Testing phonological theory with second dialect data. Phonetics and Phonology Research Group/Language in Context Research Group, University of Edinburgh Changing dialects, changing representations? Testing phonological theory with second dialect data. Linguistics Seminar Series, Queen Mary, University of London Testing phonological theory with second dialect data. Language Variation and Linguistic Theory Research Group, Lancaster University Second dialect acquisition and phonological theory. Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies Seminar, University of Manchester. Conference Presentations Variable rules or variable inputs? Process-based and representational approaches to variability. Symposium paper (session title: The Locus of Linguistic Variation). Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis Best practices in measuring vowel merger. With Lauren Hall-Lew. 166th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Francisco Awareness and acquisition of new dialect features. Symposium paper (session title: Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research). Linguistic Society of America, Boston Frequency and social meaning in dialect change. Linguistic Society of America, Portland Frequency effects on second dialect acquisition. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 40, Georgetown University Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English border. With Gerry Docherty, Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, & Damien Hall. The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong Digital recording options for geographically remote informants. With Paul De Decker. Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario New contrast acquisition: Methodological issues and theoretical implications. The International Society for the Linguistics of English, Boston University New media technology as sociophonetic data collection tools. With Paul De Decker. Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation, University of Groningen The phonetics/phonology distinction in second dialect acquisition by adults. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, University of Texas-San Antonio.

4 2010. The effects of a border: A detailed examination of production, attitude and perception. With Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, & Dominic Watt. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, University of Texas-San Antonio For the record: which digital media are good enough for sociophonetic analysis? With Paul De Decker. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 39, University of Texas-San Antonio Linguistic variation and identity: Sound change along a national border. With Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, & Dominic Watt. Workshop on Sound Change, Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona Dialect contact and phonological change at the variety and speaker level. With Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, & Dominic Watt. The 18th Manchester Phonology Meeting, University of Manchester Linguistic variation, geography, and identity: Sound change along a national border. With Gerry Docherty, Damien Hall, Carmen Llamas, & Dominic Watt. The 4th Northern Englishes Workshop, University of Sheffield Changing words or changing rules? What second dialect acquisition can tell us about phonological representation. The 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, University of Landau Speaker awareness, differential use of linguistic variables and the expression of identity. With Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall. The 34th International LAUD Symposium on Cognitive Sociolinguistics, University of Landau Mandarin /r/ in three space: comparing structural MRI and ultrasound reconstructions. With Doug Honorof, Aaron P. Schultz, & Céline Y. C. Chang. Ultrafest V, Haskins Laboratories Reliability of formant measurements from lossy compressed audio. With James Bulgin & Paul De Decker. The British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium, University of Westminster Voice Onset Time and the Scottish Vowel Length Rule along the Scottish-English border. With Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall. The British Association of Academic Phoneticians Colloquium, University of Westminster Accent and identity on the Scottish English border. With Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall. Borders & Identities Conference, Newcastle University Variation and change in /r/ In the Scottish/English borderland. With Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall. The 7th UK Language Variation and Change Conference, Newcastle University The Scottish/English borderland: phonological production, perception and attitude. With Carmen Llamas, Dominic Watt, Gerry Docherty, & Damien Hall. The 5th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, University of Copenhagen Acquiring phonological features of a second dialect: Canadians [k?t] in New York. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, Rice University.

5 2007. Two repairs in one grammar? A unified OT account of obligatory epenthesis and variable t/d deletion in English. Workshop on Variation, Gradience and Frequency in Phonology, Stanford University A new way of analyzing vowels: Comparing formant contours using smoothing spline ANOVA. With Paul De Decker. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 35, Ohio State University What lies beneath? Studying variation using ultrasound technology. With Paul De Decker. Methods in Dialectology XII, Université de Moncton, Canada Are tense [æ]s really tense? An ultrasound study. With Paul De Decker. 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania The dynamics of near-merger: Accounting for gradience in phonology. ConSOLE XIII, University of Tromsø, Norway Short term accommodation and a new mechanism of merger: Dialect contact and the low back vowel distinction. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33, University of Michigan Deriving consonant cluster phonotactics: Evidence from Singapore English. With Arto Anttila, Vivienne Fong, & Stefan Benus. The North Eastern Linguistics Society 34, SUNY Stony Brook Global faithfulness and choice of repair. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 32, University of Pennsylvania Functional unity and choice of repair: The preceding segment effect on epenthesis and t/d deletion. The Long Island Sound Meeting, SUNY Stony Brook. Current Teaching Georgetown University, Washington, DC Introduction to Language (undergraduate), Spring 2014 Sounds of Language (undergraduate), Fall 2014 Sociophonetics (undergraduate/graduate), Spring Sociolinguistic Variation (undergraduate/graduate), Fall Variation Analysis (graduate), Fall 2013 Variation in Optimality Theory (graduate seminar), Spring 2012 Past Teaching Reed College, Portland, OR Phonology, Spring 2012 Linguistic Accommodation, Spring 2012 Quantitative Methods in Linguistic Research, Spring 2012 Introduction to Linguistic Analysis (co-taught), Fall 2011 Phonetics, Fall 2011 University of York, York UK Research in Language Variation and Change, co-instructor, Summer 2010 Introduction to Language Variation and Change, co-instructor, Spring 2010

6 New York University, New York, NY Language (Introduction to Linguistics), Instructor, Summer 2004 Phonological Analysis, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006 Language and Society, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2005 Linguistic Perspectives (Introduction to Linguistics), Teaching Assistant, Spring 2005 Sound and Language, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2003/Fall 2004 Language and Mind, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2004 Dissertation Committee Memberships Georgetown University Jessica Grieser, There Are No Secrets in Southeast: Gentrification and the Language of Multiple Blacknesses in Southeast Washington D.C., (co-chair) Tracy Canfield, Metathesis is real, and it is a regular relation, Sinae Lee, Quantitative and qualitative approach towards the language of Washington DC: Vowels and narratives, Graduate workshops Georgetown University Linguistics Department Introduction to R, March 29, Writing a Conference Abstract, April 25, Undergraduate Thesis Advising Georgetown University Abigail Sherburne, Farming for Features: Rhotic Variations and Identity in Maine Agricultural Communities, Anna Drabek, Linguistic Identity in Advertising: Multinational Corporations and the Bilingual Context of Belgium, Reed College Kathleen Aston, Aero-Tactile Stimuli and Speech Perception, Jenny Calvert-Warren, Acoustic Features and Subjective Perception of Vocal Gender, Sasha Puchalski, Acoustic Analysis of Conversational Coordination, Nina Umont, Prosodic Features of Narrative-Style Jokes, Fellowships, Grants and Awards Georgetown University Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Spring 2015 Georgetown University Research Infrastructure Award, 2013 Georgetown University Summer Academic Research Grant, 2013 Georgetown International Research Collaboration Grant, 2013 NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean s Dissertation Fellowship, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellow, 2007 NYU College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2006 NYU Henry MacCracken Fellowship, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Travel Grant, 2005 Teagle Foundation Graduate Scholarship, Dartmouth College Rufus Choate Scholar, Dartmouth College Endowed Scholarship, Teagle Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship,

7 Professional Service Peer Review Journals: Language Variation and Change, Lingua, International Review of Applied Linguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass Conferences: New Ways of Analyzing Variation, Second Language Acquisition of Phonology (SLP2012), Variation and Language Processing 2011, Georgetown University Round Table in Linguistics Funding bodies: National Science Foundation Conference Organization Borders and Identities Conference, (University of York/Newcastle University) New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34, (NYU) CUNY/SUNY/NYU Linguistics Conference, (NYU) Novel Data Workshop, (NYU) Department of Linguistics, Georgetown Head of Sociolinguistics, Fall 2014 Linguistics Lab Committee Chair, Spring VAP Phonology search committee member, Spring 2013 University Service, Georgetown Main Campus Executive Faculty representative, Department of Linguistics, NYU Student representative, phonology search committee, President, NYU Linguistics Graduate Student Association, Vice-President, NYU Linguistics Graduate Student Association, University Service, NYU Student representative, GSAS Financial Aid Committee, Developer/leader, Orientation for Graduate Students Who Teach, 2007 Panelist, Making the Academic Transition, GSAS New Student Orientation, Sept 2007 Committee member, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Committee on Student Discipline, Treasurer, GSAS Graduate Student Council, Representative, GSAS Graduate Student Council, Professional Memberships The Linguistic Society of America The Association for Laboratory Phonology The British Association of Academic Phoneticians