Current Research Projects
2009-2011 (Universidad de Puerto Rico & New York University)
- Acquisition of New York City English by Caribbean Immigrants (Hispanic and Haitian). Sabbatical research project sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico and by New York University, Department of Linguistics
- Mather (2010) - New York City Department Store Survey (Paper presented on Sept. 7, 2010 at the 18th Sociolinguistics Symposium, University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
- Mather (2010) - Acquisition of NYC vowels by P.R. immigrants: preliminary findings
(Paper presented on March 5, 2010 at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society (RISLUS), CUNY Graduate Center, New York City) - Follow discussions on my new blog Linguistics & Politics
- See also my on-going discussion on the Linguist List concerning the role of Creole languages in education, with special reference to Haiti.
2007-2010 (Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)
- Influencia del francés y del créole haitiano en los patrones de negación del español L2
(con Luis Ortiz, Departamento de Estudios Hispanicos, U.P.R. Rio Piedras)
Recent and upcoming conference presentations
- May 2011: "The social stratification of /r/ in New York City", Annual RISLUS Forum, CUNY Graduate Center, 23 May 2011, New York City
- January 2011: "Acquisition of New York City vowels by Caribbean immigrants" American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, United States
- November 2010: "Phonetic and phonological variation in the English of Puerto Rican immigrants", NWAV, San Antonio, Texas.
- September 2010: "Labov's Department Store study revisited"
Sociolinguistics Symposium 18, University of Southampton, United Kingdom - June 2010: "L’enseignement du français langue étrangère à Porto Rico et à New-York"
Annual Meeting of the Centre International d’Etudes Francophones, Montreal, Canada. - April 2010: "Phonetic Changes in New York City: 1962-2009"
Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, SUNY-New Paltz, New York - March 2010: "Acquisition of New York English phonetic features by Caribbean immigrants": Guest Speaker at the Research Institute for the Study of Language in Urban Society, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City
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