Naomi Nagy

Assistant professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

naomi dot nagy @ utoronto dot ca

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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA

Ph.D. in Linguistics, 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.

• PI for Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto project, 2009-2012. SSHRC Standard Research Grant 410-2009-2330. This project records and analyzed the varieties of 6 heritage languages spoken by three generations of speakers in Toronto today. It has involved >50 students in its first two years.
  
• 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 the McGill/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) [Paper coming soon]
  
• 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)

The University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics, Toronto, Ontario

Please see Teaching webpage for details.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, English Department, Durham, NH

Associate Professor and Interdepartmental Linguistics Program Coordinator. 2002-2008

Assistant Professor and Interdepartmental Linguistics Program Coordinator. 1996-2002

Courses

• 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

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia, PA

• 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.

forthcoming

Nagy, N. forthcoming. Sociolinguistics and Phonology. In R. Bayley, C. Lucas, & R. Cameron. Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press.

Nagy, N. & A. Kochetov. forthcoming. VOT across the generations: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change. In M. Schulz & P. Siemund (eds.). Multilingualism and language contact in urban areas. John Benjamins.

Nagy, N., J. Chociej & M. Hoffman. forthcoming. Analyzing Ethnic Orientation in the quantitative sociolinguistic paradigm. In M. Yaeger-Dror & G. Guy, eds. New perspectives on the concept of ethnolect. Publications of the American Dialect Society.

2011

Nagy, N. 2011. A multilingual corpus to explore geographic variation. Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata 43:1-2. [abstract]

Labov, W., S. Ash, M. Ravindranath, T. Weldon, M. Baranowski & N. Nagy. 2011. Properties of the sociolinguistic monitor. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15.4:431-63. [abstract]

Nagy, N., N. Aghdasi, D. Denis, & A. Motut. 2011. Null Subjects in Heritage Languages: Contact effects in a cross-linguistic context. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17.2, Article 16. [abstract]

Hrycyna, M., N. Lapinskaya, A. Kochetov & N. Nagy. 2011. VOT drift in 3 generations of Heritage Language speakers in Toronto. Canadian Acoustics 39.3:166-7.

Nagy, N. 2011. Lexical Change and Language Contact: Faetar in Italy and Canada. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15:366-382. [abstract -- Hear it in Faetar!]

Nagy, N. Lexical change and language contact: Francoprovençal in Italy and Canada. in M. Meyerhoff, C. Adachi, A. Daleszynska & A. Strycharz (eds.) The Proceedings of Summer School of Sociolinguistics 2010, Edinburgh.

2010

Nagy, N. & P. Irwin. 2010. Boston (r): Neighbo(r)s nea(r) and fa(r). Language Variation and Change 22:2.241-78. [abstract]

2009

Nagy, N. 2009. The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a Sociogrammar of Faetar. In J. Stanford & D. Preston, eds. Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Impact series, vol. 25. 397-417.

2008

Meyerhoff, M. & N. Nagy, eds. 2008. Social Lives in Language -- Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. Impact series.

Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. 2008. The social lives of linguistics. In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, eds. Social Lives in Language -- Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam.1-17. [related poster]

Blondeau, H. & N. Nagy. 2008. Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English. In M. Meyerhoff, M. & N. Nagy, eds. Social Lives in Language -- Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities. John Benjamins: Amsterdam. 273-314. (PDF)

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. 52-66. (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. Selected papers from NWAV 35. 135-47.

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, (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. (PDF)

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. (abstract)

1992

Nagy, N., T. Chung & J. Tong. 2012. Classifier variation and change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics. The Ohio State University.

Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Languages. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Portland, OR.

Nagy, N. & J. Chociej. 2012. Analyzing Ethnic Orientation in Toronto Heritage Languages. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, workshop: New perspectives on the concept of ethnolect. Portland, OR.

Nagy, N., J. Chociej, & M. Hoffman. 2012. Ethnic Orientation in the Quantitative Sociolinguistic Paradigm. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, satellite workshop on preparation of sociolinguistic archives. Portland, OR.

Nagy, N. 2011. Looking for contact effects in Heritage Languages. Invited Homecoming speaker, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Nagy, N. 2011. Heritage Language Documentation Corpus (HerLD). Workshop sur l’annotation des corpus multilingues, Paris.

Hrycyna, M., N. Lapinskaya, A. Kochetov & N. Nagy. 2011. VOT drift in 3 generations of Heritage Language speakers in Toronto. Canadian Acoustical Association, Québec.

Nagy, N. 2011. Heritage Language Variation and Change: Corpus construction and use. Workshop on Dialect and Heritage Language Corpora for the Google Generation. Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario. [abstract]

Nagy, N., J. Chociej & M. Hoffman. 2011. Analyzing Ethnic Orientation in the Quantitative Sociolinguistic Paradigm. Methods in Dialectology 14, University of Western Ontario. [abstract]

Nagy, Naomi & Alexei Kochetov. 2011. VOT across the Generations: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change. ICLaVE 6, Freiburg, Germany. [abstract]

Nagy, N. & P. Irwin. 2011. What we heard and what we Hertz – An acoustic analysis of Boston r-dropping. CVC V, Victoria University, BC.

Nagy, N. 2011. Ethnicity, identity & language variation: Is there a connection? Invited lecture at International Christian University, Japan.

Walker, J. & N. Nagy. 2011. The development of Canada's (and Quebec's) language policies. Invited lecture at International Christian University, Japan.

Nagy, N. & J. Walker. 2011. A short history of Canadian English. Invited lecture at Yamagata University, Japan.

Nagy, N. 2011. Ethnicity, identity and language variation in multilingual contexts. First International Symposium on immigrant languages, University of Tokyo, Japan (invited lecture).

Nagy, N. 2011. Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Languages. Invited lecture at Georgetown University.

Nagy, N., N. Aghdasi, D. Denis, M. Hollett, A. Motut, & D. Uscher. 2010. Pro-drop in Heritage Languages: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change. NWAV 39, San Antonio, TX. (abstract)

Nagy, N., Walker, J., M. Hoffman, & N. Nagy. 2010. Ethnolinguistic Variation in Toronto. Dialect and Social Change in Urban Diasporic Communities Workshop, 1-2 July 2010, Queen Mary, University of London. (abstract)

Nagy, N. 2010. Heritage Language Variation and Change: The Case of Faetar in Faeto and Toronto. ACLA/CAAL, Montreal. (Abstract PDF)

Nagy, N. 2010. Heritage Language Variation & Change in Toronto: A Multilingual Corpus to Explore (Geographic and) Social Variation. Presented at the University of Hamburg and the University of Western Ontario.

Nagy, N. 2010. Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto: Focus on Faeto. Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics and the Centre for Research on Language Contact, York University. (abstract)

Nagy, N. 2010. Heritage Language Variation and Change Project in Toronto: Bilinguals' competence in their Heritage Language. AAAL, Insights into the Development of Sociolinguistic Competence Colloquium, Atlanta. (Abstract)

Nagy, N. 2009. Exploring Heritage Language Variation in Toronto. SLUGS Academic Seminar, University of Toronto. Nov. 24, 2009. (JPG of abstract, PPT of talk)

Nagy, N. 2009. A Multilingual Corpus to Explore Geographic Variation. CLAVIER IX conference, Modena, Italy, Nov. 5, 2009. (PDF of abstract)

Nagy, N. 2009. Boston (R): Neighbo(r)s Nea(r) and Fa(r). CVC III. York University, June 20-21, 2009. (PPT of talk; handout)

Nagy, N. 2009. NH on the move: Language change in a state without a city. Invited speaker, Linguistics Department, University of Buffalo.

Nagy, N. 2009. R. Phonetics & Phonology Group, University of Toronto.

Nagy, N. 2009. Boston R: Neighbo(r)s Nea(r) and Fa(r). LVC Group, University of Toronto.

Nagy, N. 2008. Language Matters. Invited speaker, Study Languages Conference, University of Toronto.

Nagy, N. 2008. Writing a Sociogrammar of Faetar. Invited speaker, Flaut series, University of Toronto.

Nagy, N. 2008. Pove'ty of the Stimulus: Frequencies of [r]. School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.

Nagy, N. 2008. Multilingualism. School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University Wellington, NZ.

Nagy, N. 2008. Exemplar Theory: An Example with R. Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.

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)]

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.

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 faetare. 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 faetare). 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:

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., J. Walker, A. Kochetov and Y. Kang. 2009. Heritage language change and variation in Toronto. Poster presented at NWAV, University of Ottawa, Oct. 22-25, 2009. (PDF of abstract)

Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. 2008. The love that dare not speak its name--The fascination with monolingual speech communities in sociolinguistics. NWAV 37. Houston, TX.

Nagy, N. 2008. Perception and production frequency in R speech. Lab Phon 11, Wellington, NZ.

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.

SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

• Student research supervised

  • Undergraduate: Independent studies
  • Graduate: Theses, Generals Papers, independent studies, etc.
• Workshop organizer: Workshop on heritage languages (May 2009)
• Member of the following departmental committees:

  • Equipment committee (2008-2009)
  • Ethics committee (2008-2010)
  • Newsletter/Blog committee, Chair (2009-2011)
• Other
• Interviewed for an article about Faetar in the Corriere Canadese

SERVICE AT UNH (1996-2008)

Master's theses supervised at UNH

Undergraduate research supervised at UNH

OTHER

SERVICE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

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