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NAOMI NAGY

University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, 130 St. George Street, room 6076, Toronto, Ont. M5S 3H1 Canada

• Assistant professor of Linguistics (start date, July 1, 2008)

University of New Hampshire, English Department, Hamilton Smith Hall, 95 Main Street, Durham, NH 03824-3574 USA

• Associate professor of Linguistics, 2002-2008
• Assistant professor of Linguistics, 1996-2002
• Coordinator of the Linguistics Program, 1997-2008

ngn@unh.edu

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D. in Linguistics received May 21, 1996.

Dissertation title: "Language Contact and Language Change in the Faetar Speech Community" (abstract and ordering information)

Dissertation committee: Drs. Gillian Sankoff (chair), Mark Liberman, Donald Ringe, Gregory Guy

LSA LINGUISTICS INSTITUTE 1993 The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, NH

BA awarded cum Laude in June 1989. Majors: linguistics (with Honors) and French.

MCGILL UNIVERSITY Montreal, Canada

Visiting student in linguistics and French departments, Spring 1988.

• Independent participant/observer field worker in Faeto, Italy, during which I recorded over 50 hours of speech in Faetar and Italian from about 90 speakers, designed and conducted several speech production and perception experiments, and learned to speak Faetar. (1992, 1993, 1994, 2000, 2004) I have also published a descriptive grammar of Faetar and am developing an online instructional grammar.

• Investigator of regional English patterns in New England, including theMcGill/New Hampshire/Vermont Dialect survey project. Activities include research design, administration, analysis, integrating surveys, recordings of reading passages, and a sociolinguistic interview series. See press release March 2006. (1997-present)

• Research collaborator for William Labov's project The role of evaluation in linguistic change sponsored by NSF. Developing research instruments and collecting data for the Boston portion of this study which examines how people perceive and judge accents. (2004-2006)

• Research assistant for Université de Montréal investigation of language use by Montreal Anglophones directed by P. Thibault and G. Sankoff. Duties included designing, conducting, and annotating interviews, analyzing, writing up and presenting results. (Summer 1994, 1995, 1997)

• Field worker for the Philadelphia Language Change and Variation project directed by William Labov. Duties included locating subjects, designing and carrying out sociolinguistic interviews and elicitation tasks, and conducting phonological and discourse analysis of the data collected. (1990-1991)

• COURSE DEVELOPMENT GRANT from the Discovery Program Course Development Fund for 2007. Support for developing the seminar course "Language Matters in America."

• Endangered Language Fund Grant for 2002-03. Support for developing a pedagogical grammar for Faetar.

• Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant for Summer-Fall 2002. Support for developing a course on language variation in Canada.

• UNH Faculty Development Grant for 2002. Support for developing a pedagogical grammar for Faetar.

• UNH Alumni Annual Gifts Fund grant for 2002. Support for developing a pedagogical grammar of Faetar.

• SUMMER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP for 2000. This grant supports the completion of a grammar of Faetar.

• GUSTAFSON FACULTY FELLOWSHIP for 2000. This grant supports a semester of research to produce a grammar of Faetar for an Endangered Language grammar series.

• SUMMER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP for 1997. This grant supports a period of fieldwork and analysis of French as spoken by Montreal Anglophones.

• MELLON/SAS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP for 1995-96. This is a full-support grant awarded by the University of Pennsylvania for outstanding scholarship and academic record.

• SALVATORI RESEARCH GRANTS in 1992, 1993, and 1994. These grants supported extensive field work on language contact and sound change in Faetar, a Francoprovençal dialect spoken in southern Italy.

• DEAN'S GRANT This grant from the Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences offset research expenses incurred during fieldwork in Faeto during the summer of 1994.

• LSA FELLOWSHIP for Linguistics Institute 1993. This fellowship paid my tuition for six summer courses.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, English Department, Durham, NH

• Sociolinguistics Survey (upper level & graduate)
• Linguistic Field Methods (upper level & graduate)
• Language Variation in Canada (upper level & graduate)
• Phonetics and Phonology (upper level & graduate)
• Intermediate Linguistic Analysis (lower level)
• Introduction to Linguistics (lower level)
• Language Matters in America (Inquiry seminar for first-year students)
• Languages in Contact (upper level & graduate)
• Historical Romance Linguistics (upper level)

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY Wellington, New Zealand

• Visiting academic, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Taught two sociolinguistics courses. July-August 2005

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA

• Instructor for American Dialects. Phonetics, phonology, dialect geography, experimental design and field methodology are combined in this study of regional and ethnic variation in American English. Spring 1995.
• Tutor for graduate-level Quantitative Methods courses. I organized sessions in which I reviewed and clarified methods of quantitative analysis, statistics, and software packages.
• Instructor for Introductory Linguistics II. Topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics. Fall 1994.
• Instructor for Introductory Linguistics I. Topics include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, animal communication, linguistics and computers, non-standard Englishes. Summer 1993, Fall 1993, Winter 1994.
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. William Labov, for introductory undergraduate course in phonetics, phonology, morphology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics. Spring 1993
• Teaching Assistant to Dr. Anthony Kroch, introductory undergraduate course in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Fall 1992
• French Instructor at the graduate and undergraduate level, 1990-1992

THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN SWITZERLAND Lugano, Switzerland

• Teacher of Intermediate French and Advanced English as a foreign language, dormitory counselor and sports coach, Summer 1990.

DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Hanover, NH

• French Teaching Assistant to Drs. John Rassias and Sarah Sully, taught intermediate level conversation and drill class daily. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
• Assistant Teacher for Language Outreach, taught English conversation at varying levels of proficiency in one-on-one and group sessions. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
• Language Outreach Instructor for Rassias Method workshops for teachers. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
• Tutor in French and Italian for the Academic Skills Center. Fall 1986-Spring 1987.

2008/forthcoming

Meyerhoff, M.& N. Nagy, eds. (forthcoming in 2008). Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistic and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. (forthcoming in 2008) Sociolinguistic studies in multilingual communities. In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, eds. Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistic and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Blondeau, H. & N. Nagy. (forthcoming in 2008) Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English. In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, eds. Social Lives in Language: Sociolinguistic and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

Nagy, N. (forthcoming). Writing a Sociogrammar of Faetar. In J. Stanford & D. Preston, eds. Variationist Approaches to Indigenous Minority Languages. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (Expanded and updated version of a working papers article from 2001)

2008

Nagy, N. & J. Roberts 2008. New England: phonology. In E. Schneider, K. Burridge, B. Kortmann, R. Mesthrie & C. Upton, eds. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 2: Varieties of English of the Americas and the Caribbean . Berlin, NY: Mouton de Gruyter. (Revised paperback version; Hardback version appeared in 2004.)

2007

Irwin, T. & N. Nagy. 2007. Bostonians /r/ speaking: A quantitative look at (R) in Boston. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2: Papers from NWAV 35:135-147. (PDF)

2006

Labov, W., S. Ash, M. Ravindranath, T. Weldon, M. Baranowski, & N. Nagy. 2006. Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.2: Selected papers from NWAV 34:105-29.

Nagy, N., X. Zhang, G. Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2006. Clustering dialects automatically -- A Mutual Information approach. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12.2: Selected papers from NWAV 34:145-58. (Download PDF.) (Addenda to paper.)

Nagy. N. 2006. Experimental methods for study of linguistic variation. In K. Brown, ed. Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier. vol. 4, 390-394. (ISBN 0-08-044299-4) (Download PDF)

Roberts, J., N. Nagy & C. Boberg. 2006. Yakking with the Yankees (New England). In W. Wolfram & B. Ward, eds. American Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast . Blackwell. 57-62. [Reprint of Nagy, Roberts, & Boberg 2001]

2005

Nagy, Naomi, Xiaoli Zhang, George Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2005. A Quantitative categorization of phonemic dialect features in context (.PDF) . In A. Dey et al. (eds.) CONTEXT 2005 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3554. Springer-Verlag. pp. 326-338. (Addenda to paper.)

2004

Nagy, N. & J. Roberts. 2004. New England: phonology (.PDF). In Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive Upton,eds. A Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 1: Phonology. Berlin, NY: Mouton de Gruyter. 270-281. [This is a multimedia volume. There is a free sneak preview at www.mouton-online.com.]

2003

Nagy, N., H. Blondeau, & J. Auger. 2003. Second language acquisition and "real" French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones. Language Variation and Change 15.1:73-103. (see abstract, (PDF of paper).

Blondeau, H., N. Nagy, G. Sankoff & P. Thibault. 2003. La couleur locale du français L2 des Anglo-Montréalais. In R. Mougeon & J.-M. Dewaele (eds.).   Appropriation de la variation du français par les apprenants avancés du français langue étrangère ou seconde. Proceedings of the Association Internationale des langues étrangères (ENCRAGES). 73-100. (see abstract)

2001

Nagy, N. 2001. 'Live free or die' as a linguistic principle (.PDF). American Speech 76.1:30-41. (abstract)

Nagy, N. 2001.Stress and schwa in Faetar (.zip). In Italian Dialects and Phonological Theory. Lori Repetti (ed.). Current Issues in Linguistic Theory series. Philadelphia: Benjamins 239-254.

Nagy, N., J. Roberts, & C. Boberg. 2001. Yakking with the Yankees. American Language Review 5.1:40-43.

2000

Nagy, N. 2000. Faetar. Munich: Lincom Europa. (ordering information)

Nagy, N. 2000. What I didn't know about working in an endangered language community: Some fieldwork issues. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 144:143-160.

Nagy, N.2000. Field work in Faeto, an endangered language community. Southern Journal of Linguistics1:121-136. (.zip)

Ryback-Soucy, W. & N. Nagy. 2000. Exploring the dialect of the Franco-Americans of Manchester, NH. Journal of English Linguistics 28.3:249-264. (.zip)

1999

H. Blondeau & N. Nagy. 1999. Double marquage du sujet dans le français parlé par de jeunes Anglo-Montréalais. In Actes de L'association canadienne de linguistique. Ottawa: Cahiers Linguistiques d'Ottawa. 59-70.

1998

Nagy, N. & D. Heap. 1998. Francoprovençal Null Subject and Constraint Interaction. In M. C. Gruber, D. Higgins, K.S. Olson & T. Wysocki (eds.), CLS 34: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society; 34.2:151-166.

Nagy, G., N. Nagy, & M. Sabourin. 1998. Signes diacritiques: perdus et retrouvés. In R. Plamondon & R. Sabourin (eds.). 1er Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document. Quebec: Les Cahiers scientifiques. 404-412.

Heap, D. & N. Nagy. 1998. Subject pronoun variation in Faetar and Francoprovencal. Papers in Sociolinguistics. NWAVE-26 a l'Universite Laval. Quebec: Nota bene. 291-300.

1997

Sankoff, G., P. Thibault, N. Nagy, H. Blondeau, M. Fonollosa, & L. Gagnon. 1997. Variation and the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation. Language Variation and Change 9.2:191-218.

Nagy, N. 1997. Modeling contact-induced language change. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: A Selection of Papers from NWAVE 25 4.1:399-418.

1996

Nagy, N., C. Moisset, & G. Sankoff. 1996. On the acquisition of variable phonology in L2. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Papers from NWAVE 24 3.1:111-126.

1995

Nagy, N. & D. Napoli. 1995. Italian Codas in OT. ESCOL '95: 212-223.

Nagy, N. 1995. Double or nothing: Romance alignment strategies. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Papers from the 19th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium 2.2:93-102. (Postscript file of paper.)

1994

Nagy, N. 1994. Language Contact and Change: Italian (?) Geminates in Faetar. Belgian Journal of Linguistics 9:111-128. (also appeared in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers I)

Nagy, N. 1994. Lexical change and language contact. Penn Review of Linguistics 18: 117-132. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Department of Linguistics.

1993

Nagy, N. 1993. A Geographic Analysis of the Origins of Faetar. The Penn Review of Linguistics 17:177-188.

Karins, K. & N. Nagy. 1993. Developing an Experimental Basis for Determining Grammaticality. The Penn Review of Linguistics 17: 93-100.

1992

Oral presentations

Hume, B. & N. Nagy. 2008. Sociolinguistics and Linguistic Theories: Giving and Taking - Phonology. Linguistic Society of America Plenary Symposium. Chicago.

Irwin, T. & N. Nagy. 2007. The return of R. NWAV 36. Philadelphia. [abstract PDF] [PPT slides]

Blondeau, H., N. Nagy & J. Wood. 2007. On était comme, 'We think like may be a COMP too.' NWAV 36. Philadelphia. [abstract PDF]

Irwin, T. & N. Nagy. 2006. Bostonians' /r/ speaking: A quantitative look at (R) in Boston. NWAV 35. Columbus, Ohio. [abstract PDF]

Nagy, N. 2006. Endangered languages. Invited speaker, German Department, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT.

Nagy, N. 2006. Quebec French, and the Anglophones who speak it. Guest lecture at the Epping Historical Society. Epping, NH.

Labov, W., S. Ash, M. Ravindranath,T. Weldon, M. Baranowski, & N. Nagy. 2005. Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic variables. NWAV 34. New York, NY.

Nagy, N. 2005. Writing a Sociogrammar of Faitare. Plenary speaker, 2nd International Linguistics and Literary Studies Postgraduate Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.

Nagy, N. 2005. Montreal Anglophones and "Real French": A look at gender neutralization. School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Nagy, N. 2005. Tocche g'é féje lu premavèrr passà (What I did last summer, in Faitare). International Conference on Minority Languages. Trieste, Italy.

Nagy, N. 2005. Variable grammar or variable acquisition? (Does differential linguistic ability account for patterns of variation?). University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.

Nagy, N. 2005. Learning and teaching an endangered unwritten language. UNH English Department Speaker Series.

Nagy, N. 2004. Gender neutralization in Montreal L2 French. (with H. Blondeau). Sociolinguistics Symposium 15. Newcastle, England.

Nagy, N. 'Live free or die' as a linguistic principle. Invited speaker at:

• Lee Historical Society (2008)
• Durham Active Retirement Association (2007)
• Deerfield Historical Society (2007)
• The Mt. Washington Resort (2007)
• Durham Historical Society (2006)
• Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand (2006)
• Dartmouth College (2005)
• The Balsams Resort, Dixville Notch, NH (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Bradford Area Community Center, New London, NH (2004)
• Washington Congregational Church Community Outreach Program, Washington, NH (2004)

Nagy, N. 2004. French in Quebec. Invited speaker at John Stark High School, Weare, NH.

Nagy, N. 2004. Ebonics. Invited speaker at the Issues Forum, St. George's Episcopal Church, York, ME.

Nagy, N. 2003. Sociolinguistic research methodology. Invited speaker at Linguistics Department, University of Edinburgh.

Nagy, N. 2003. Languages of Canada. Invited speaker for Canadian Studies Program, University of Edinburgh.

Nagy, N. 2003. L1 vs. L2 vernacular variation. Invited speaker for Canadian Studies Program, University of Edinburgh.

Nagy, N. 2003. L1 vs. L2 vernacular variation. Invited speaker at Linguistics Department, University of York, England.

Nagy, N. 2003. L1 vs. L2 vernacular variation: A case study of Montreal Anglophones. University of Calgary.

Nagy, N. 2003. Sociolinguistic fieldwork methodology. University of Alberta-Faculté St. Jean.

Nagy, N. 2003. The Rassias Method for foreign language instruction.  SUNY-Albany.

Nagy, N. 2002. L1 vs. L2 vernacular variation. NWAVE, Stanford, CA.

Nagy, N. 2001. Invited speaker for European Cultural Studies Proseminar.

Nagy, N. 2001. Moderator for "Variationism in context" plenary panel. NWAVE, Raleigh, NC.

Nagy, N. 2000. Variation in the grammar book: The sociogrammarian's dilemma. International Conference on Language Variation in Europe. Barcelona.

Nagy, N. 2000. Mary, Merry, Marry quite contrary, how does your dialect go? American Dialect Society, Chicago.

Nagy, N. 1999. Live free or die: NH maintains linguistic independence from Boston. NWAVE, Toronto.

Heap, D. & N. Nagy. 1999. Null subjects here and there, then and now. 10th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, St. John's, Newfoundland.

Nagy, N. 1999. An optimality account of variation in Faetar post-tonic deletion. Invited talk at University of Edinburgh.

Nagy, N. 1999. Do multiple forms mean multiple grammars? 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism. Newcastle.

Nagy, N. 1999. Working in an endangered language community. Invited speaker for "Fieldwork in the 21st Century" panel at the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, Norfolk, VA.

Nagy, N. 1999. Bicultural speakers and bilingual grammar. Invited talk at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Nagy, N. 1999. About Goldsearch. Invited talk at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

Nagy, N. 1999. Second language teaching and learning. Pinkerton Academy, NH. Invited talk to English class.

Nagy, N. 1998. Language variation among bilinguals: Expression of multiple identities? Or multiple expressions of one identity? Communication Colloquium Series, UNH.

Heap. D. & N. Nagy. 1998. Pronoms sujet variables et interaction des contraintes. Association Canadienne de Linguistique.

Blondeau, H. & N. Nagy. 1998. Double marquage des sujets pronominaux et lexicaux dans le français parlé par les Anglo-montréalais. Association Canadienne de Linguistique.

Heap. D. & N. Nagy. 1998. An Optimality approach to variable subject pronouns. LSRL 29.

Nagy, N. & H. Blondeau. 1998. Subject Pronoun Variation in Montreal French as L2. NWAVE 27, Athens, GA.

Nagy, N. 1998. Sociolinguistics and teaching. Presentation to John Lofty's English 725 class, UNH.

Nagy, G, N. Nagy, & M. Sabourin. 1998. Signes diacritiques: perdus et retrouvés. Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document.

Nagy, N. & D. Heap. 1998. Francoprovençal null subjects and constraint interaction. Chicago Linguistic Society.

Nagy, N. 1997. Hyperforeignization as a cause of language change. MLA 1997, Toronto.

Nagy, N. 1997. A comparative model of contact-induced language change. MLA 1997, Toronto.

Nagy, N. 1997. About Goldsearch. Workshop presented at NWAV 1997, Québec.

Nagy, N., M. Meyerhoff & D. Boas. 1997. Goldsearch workshop. Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Nagy, N. 1997. Spectrographic analysis as a tool for voice teaching. UNH Music Department.

Nagy, N. 1997. Linguistic attitudes in Quebec. Guest lecture for French 525, UNH.

Nagy, N. 1997. Introducing sociolinguistics. Guest lecture for Linguistics 505, UNH.

Nagy, N. 1996. Modeling contact-induced language change. NWAVE 25. Las Vegas, NV.

Nagy, N. & K. Karins. 1996. Testing the perception of a "categorical" rule: Wanna experiment in syntax? NWAVE 25. Las Vegas, NV.

Nagy, N. 1996. Language contact and language change in the Faetar speech community. Invited talk at the University of New Hampshire.

Nagy, N. 1996. Contact-induced language change in the Francoprovençal dialect of Faetar. LSA. San Diego.

Nagy, N. & D. Napoli. 1995. An OT account of length and consonant behavior in Italian syllabification. ESCOL '95, Dartmouth College.

Nagy, N., C. Moisset & G. Sankoff 1995. On the acquisition of variable phonology in L2. NWAVE 24 Philadelphia.

Nagy, N. 1995. Double or Nothing: Romance Alignment Strategies in OT (abstract) Invited talk at the University of Ottawa, 1995. (Postscript file of paper)

Nagy, N. 1995. Lexical variation as an indicator of change in progress? LSA New Orleans.

Reynolds, B. & N. Nagy. 1994. Accounting for Variable Word-final Deletion within Optimality Theory. NWAV 23. Stanford.

Blondeau, H., Fonollosa, M., Gagnon, L. Nagy, N., Sankoff, G. & P. Thibault. Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation. NWAV 23, Stanford.

Nagy, N. 1994. Le geminate nel dialetto di Faeto. Società Internazionale della Linguistica e Filologia Italiana, Third Annual Meeting. Perugia.

Nagy, N. 1994. Invited speaker for "Languages of the World" and "Introduction to Linguistics" classes at Swarthmore College.

Nagy, N. 1993. The Origins of Faetar: First report from the field. Penn Linguistics Colloquium.

Conference Posters

Nagy, N. 2008. Perceptual frequency and formant frequency in R speech. LabPhon11, Wellington, New Zealand.

Blondeau, H. & N. Nagy. 2005. I think that is deleted. NWAV 34. New York, NY.

Nagy, N. Xiaoli Zhang, George Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2005. Clustering dialects automatically–a Mutual Information approach. NWAV 34. New York, NY.

Nagy, N. Xiaoli Zhang, George Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2005. A Quantitative categorization of phonemic dialect features in context. CONTEXT'05. Paris, France. (Abstract.)

Nagy, N. & J. Roberts. 1998. Yankee Doodles in Dialectography: Updating New England. NWAVE 27, Athens, GA.

Heap, D. & N. Nagy. 1997. Subject Pronoun Variation in Faetar and in Franco-Provençal. NWAVE 26, Québec.

Master's theses supervised at UNH

SERVICE AT UNH

• Linguistics Committee (1996-2008), Chair (1997-2008)
• Human Subjects Committee, Institutional Review Board (2000-2009)
• Center for the Humanities Advisory Board (2000-2003, 2006-2008)
• Undegraduate Research Opportunities Program Board (2003-2007)
  • Subcommittee: Undergraduate Research Journal
  • UROP Liaison for English Department
• various Ph.D. Exam committees in Education and English (Composition Studies)
• Self-study committee for the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department's ASL Program Review (2006-2007)
• Teaching Technology in Liberal Arts, Steering Committee (2004-2007)
• Faculty Senate (2004-2006)
  • Subcommittee: Academic Affairs (2005-2006)
  • Subcommittee: Research & Public Service (2004-2005)
• Italian Study Abroad Committee (2001-2002)
• Canadian Studies Program Committee (1999-2003)
• Research Advisory Board (1997-2001)
• English Department Graduate Committee (2001-2002, 2006-2008)
• English Department Personnel Committee (2005-2006)
• English Department Undergraduate Committee (1996-2001, 2003-2004, 2007-2008)
• English Department Ad Hoc Technology Committee (1996-2001)
• European Cultural Studies Committee (1996-2003)
• UNH Linguistics Lab director (1996-2008)

OTHER

• Local/national media coverage of my research and teaching at UNH (NPR, Voice of America, MyTV Prime, NH Chronicle, Foster's Daily Democrat, The Concord Monitor)
• Participant in Main Street roundtable discussion on Ebonics March 1997
• Panelist for Ebonics discussion on WUNH February 1997

SERVICE ELSEWHERE

• Reviewer for these journals:
  • Language Variation and Change
  • Language in Society
  • Phonology
  • Journal of Phonetics
  • The Journal of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
• Juror for these conferences:
  • NWAVE 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
  • Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
  • Penn Linguistics Colloquium (1996-present)
• Reviewer for National Science Foundation linguistics grants
• Reviewer for Social Science and Humanties Research Council of Canada
• NWAVE 24 organizer, editor, host 1995
• Guest lecture coordinator, Linguistics Program, Swarthmore College 1994-1995
• Assistant organizer for NELS 25 1994
• President of the Penn Linguistics Club 1992-1993
• Editor of The Penn Review of Linguistics 1992
• Organizing committee member for The Penn Linguistics Colloquium 1992
• University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Laboratory Librarian 1991-1993
• Member, Linguistic Society of America 1990-present
  • Committee on Social and Political Concerns 2006-2009
  • Committee on Computing 1999-2002

• French (fluent, extensive teaching experience)
• Italian (conversationally competent)
• Faetar/Faitare (basic fluency)
• Spanish (rudimentary)
• American Sign Language (one semester of study, basic vocabulary and grammar)

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