Naomi Nagy
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Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto

naomi dot nagy @ utoronto dot ca

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 cum Laude, 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. This project records and analyzed the varieties of 10 heritage languages spoken by three generations of speakers in Toronto today. It involved >50 students in its first two years and continues to grow. (2009-)
  
• Participant/observer field worker in Faeto, Italy, during which I recorded over 60 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, 2019) I have also published a descriptive grammar of Faetar and worked on an online instructional grammar. Currently, we are developing #FPglobal, a social media platform to support inter-dialectal communication in Francoprovençal. (1992-)
  
• 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. (1997-2010)
  
• 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]
  
• Research assistant for Université de Montréal investigation of language use by Montreal Anglophones directed by Pierrette Thibault and Gillian 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)

• Victoria College SSHRC-SIG Award. Are Heritage Cantonese speakers ‘lazy’? 2021.
• SSHRC INSIGHT GRANT. Ethnolinguistic variation and change: coordinating production and perception. (Co-PI with Michol Hoffman). 2018-2021.
• SSHRC INSIGHT GRANT. Norme(s) et variation socio-stylistique: Démythifier le français québécois. (collaborator; PI Anne-José Villeneuve). 2018-2022. (435-2018-1005).
• CONFERENCE GRANT from Association canadienne de linguistique | Canadian Linguistic Association: Toronto Language Tapestry Workshop. 2017.
• INSIGHT GRANT from SSHRC: Heritage languages speakers in Toronto -- what do they tell sociolinguists?. 2015-2022. (435-2016-1430). Support for corpus building and analysis.
• SSHRC post-doc supervisor. Darcie Blainey, North American French, language contact, and sound change. January 2014-December 2016.
• RESEARCH GRANT from the Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies. 2015-2016.
• HERITAGE PROGRAM ACQUISITIONS GRANT from the Shevchenko Foundation: The changing Canadian Ukrainian language: Collecting a corpus. 2014-2015. (collaborators: Alexei Kochetov, Melania Hrycyna, Maksym Shkvorets, Ulyana Bila). Support for fieldwork, transcription and analysis.
• STANDARD RESEARCH GRANT from SSHRC: Multilingualism and Ethnic Identity: An International Perspective. 2012-2015. (collaborator; James Walker, PI). Support for data collection on English spoken in Heritage Language communities in Toronto.
• STANDARD RESEARCH GRANT from SSHRC: Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto, 2009-2012. (410-2009-2330). Support for corpus building and analysis.
• Endangered Language Fund Grant for 2002-03. Support for developing a pedagogical grammar for Faetar.
• 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, UNH, for 2000. Support for the completion of a grammar of Faetar.
• GUSTAFSON FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, UNH, for 2000. Support for research to produce a grammar of Faetar for an Endangered Language grammar series.
• SUMMER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, UNH, for 1997. Support for fieldwork and analysis of French as spoken by Montreal Anglophones.
• Doctoral research and study support
  • MELLON/SAS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP for 1995-96. Awarded for outstanding scholarship and academic record.
  • SALVATORI RESEARCH GRANTS in 1992, 1993, and 1994, University of Pennsylvania . Support for 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, University of Pennsylvania, offset research expenses incurred during fieldwork in Faeto, 1994.
  • LSA FELLOWSHIP for Linguistics Institute 1993. Tuition for six summer courses.

• (Learning and Education Advancement Fund (LEAF) Grant: Innovations in Linguistic Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Linguistics Curriculum and Beyond. $44,793. (co-PI with Nathan Sanders & Keren Rice). 2019-22.
• ATLAS (Advanced Teaching and Learning in Arts & Sciences) Grant: Heritage and Homeland Portuguese for course projects. $4,778. (co-PI with Anabela Rato). May 2018 – May 2020.
• Provost's INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION FUND (ITIF) for Tools for Teaching with CORPORA IN THE CLASSROOM. 2014-16.
• Faculty of Arts and Science CURRICULUM RENEWAL INITIATIVES FUND, Extension of CORPORA IN THE CLASSROOM. 2012-14.
• Faculty of Arts and Science CURRICULUM RENEWAL INITIATIVES FUND, CORPORA IN THE CLASSROOM, 2010-12
• Discovery Program Course Development Fund. Support for developing Language Matters in America course, UNH. 2007.
• Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant. Support for developing a course on language variation in Canada. 2002.

The University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Please see my Teaching webpage for course descriptions and syllabi.

LSA Institute: Linguistics as Cognitive Science: Universality and Variation, Amherst, MA

Invited instructor, How universal is variation?: Variation in heritage languages, July 2023.

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA, Winnipeg, MB

Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Graduate Studies. 2023-.

WESTERN UNIVERSITY, London, ON

Adjunct Professor, School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. 2020-2023.

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Durham, NH

Associate Professor, English Department. 2002-2008.

Assistant Professor, English Department. 1996-2002.

Interdepartmental Linguistics Program Coordinator. 1997-2008.

Please see the "Prior teaching" section of my Teaching webpage.

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY, Wellington, New Zealand

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA

Upcoming

Past

1. Nagy, N. A sociolinguistic model for electronically mediating language revitalization. Description, Documentation and Revitalization Group. 31 January 2024.
2. Nagy, N. Language Variation and Change: From Cacao to Chocolat. Exploring Linguistics and Language Lecture Series, Third Age Learning Guelph, Guelph. 12 January 2024.
3. Nagy, N. 2023. Extending variationist approaches to more languages: Problems & Possibilities. NWAV 51, Queens College, New York. 14 October 2023.
4. Petrosov, J. & N. Nagy. 2023. (Heritage) Russian case-marking: Variation and paths of change. NWAV 51, Queens College, New York. 13 October 2023.
5. Diep, B., D. Quan, J. Leung & N. Nagy. 2023. Variation in Transcribing Heritage Cantonese. 23rd Workshop on Cantonese, Hong Kong Baptist University. 23 June 2023.
6. Nagy, N. Heritage Languages: Extending variationist approaches. Invited speaker, TABU Dag 2023. Groningen, The Netherlands, 16 June 2023.

7. Nagy, N. Linguistic attitudes and contact effects in Toronto’s heritage language communities. Invited speaker, Language Attitudes in Diverse Contexts Workshop. UBC, 13-14 April 2023.

8. Nagy, N. Cross-generational and cross-language comparison in Heritage Languages. Inaugural Janne Bondi Johannessen Celebration Lecturer, 13th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA), Madison, WI, 10-12 November 2022.

9. Cristiano, A. & N. Nagy. (r) among Toronto’s heritage Italians: Maintaining language internal homeland patterns. 13th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas, Madison, WI, 10-12 November 2022.

10. Clear, A., N. Nagy & M. Hoffman. 2022. Identifiably Italian: Acoustic features of the Toronto Italian Ethnolinguistic Repertoire. NWAV50, online/Palo Alto, CA, 13-15 October 2022.

11. Cristiano, A. & N. Nagy. 2022. Another (r): Variation and social meaning in Heritage Italian. NWAV50, online/Palo Alto, CA, 13-15 October 2022.

12. Nagy, N. 2022. Marketing linguistic diversity through Heritage Language Sociolinguistics. Keynote speaker, Lingua italiana, mercato globale delle lingue, impresa italiana nel mondo/Italian language, global language market, Italian companies in the world, Florence, Italy. 6 October 2022.

13. LiVolsi, S., A. Cristiano & N. Nagy. 2022. Modeling Italian variable apocope: A formal analysis of a sociolinguistic pattern. SPF 2022, Toronto, 8 August 2022.

14. Hoffman, M., N. Nagy, & J. Walker. Sounds in the City: Perceptions of Ethnicity in Toronto English. Methods XVII. Mainz, Germany, 1-5 August 2022.

15. Leung, J., B. Diep & N. Nagy. 2022. 邊啲人[naːn²³]啲？ (n-/l-) in Cantonese in Hong Kong and Toronto. Forum on Cantonese Linguistics (FoCaL 5), The City University of Hong Kong / online, 4 June 2022.

16. Leung, J., B. Diep & N. Nagy. 2022. 'Lazy pronunciation' in Toronto Heritage Cantonese: The case of (n-/l-). Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics. (WICL-6), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH / online, 27 May 2022.

17. Nagy, N. Promoting linguistic and cultural diversity through heritage language sociolinguistics. Keynote speaker, Heritage Languages Around the World. Lisbon, Portugal. 18 May 2022

18. Nagy, N. 2022. Prodrop in six languages: Very similar and not influenced by English contact, in the panel "Cross-language approaches to null subjects." ICLAVE 11, Vienna/Online. 12-14 April 2022.

19. Celata, C. & N. Nagy. 2022. Lexical frequency effects in Italian VOT: Minority vs. majority language effects ICLAVE 11, Vienna/Online. 12-14 April 2022.

20. 2022. Introducing Faetar: A Double Heritage Language. Guest lecture for Romance Dialectology, York University, Glendon Campus, Toronto, ON, 28 March 2022.

21. Nagy, N. 2021. Heritage Language sociolinguistic fieldwork in Toronto. Invited speaker, University of Vienna, 30 November 2021.

22. Abtahian, M., N. Nagy & K. Pitt. 2021. Multilingual students’ language ecologies and COVID-19. Sounds of Migration, Penn State U. 5-6 November 2021.

23. Umbal, P. & N. Nagy. 2021. Toronto Heritage Tagalog (r): What makes it vary? NWAV49, Austin,TX/Online. 19-24 October 2021. [video]

24. Hoffman, M. & N. Nagy. 2021. How do we hear ethnicity in a diverse urban context?: Evidence from Toronto. NWAV49, Austin,TX/Online. 19-24 October 2021. [video]

25. 2021. Nagy, N. & C. Celata. 2021. A corpus for studying sociolinguistic variation in Italian in migratory settings: homeland and heritage comparisons (paper ID 57. LIV Congresso della Società di Linguistica Italiana (Corpora e studi linguistici; SLI 2020) Firenze/Online, 6-11 September 2021. [video doi.org/10.48448]

26. Celata, C. & N. Nagy. 2021. Phonological change in Heritage Italian spoken in Toronto: social factors and lexical frequency. 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Online/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 3 September 2021.

27. Di Salvo, M. & N. Nagy. 2021. Differential Object Marking in two Italian communities abroad: Diatopic and network variation. 54th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Online/National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 3 September 2021.

28. Nagy, N. 2021. Is a heritage variety just a regional variety spoken outside the national boundary?. Invited Plenary speaker, ICAME 42 (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English). Dortmund, Germany. 18 August, 2021.

29. Varatharaj, A., G. Scontras & N. Nagy. 2021. Heritage language complexity in flux: An information-theoretic analysis. 13th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB13). 9-14 July 2021.

30. Nagy, N. 2021. Understanding Language Variation and Change through Heritage Cantonese. Invited Plenary speaker, 33rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-33) 第33屆北美漢語語言學會議. University of Chicago/Online, 25 June 2021. [abstract]

31. Varatharaj, A., G. Scontras & N. Nagy. 2021. Complexity trade-offs in heritage language complexity: An information-theoretic analysis [video, slides]. 13th Heritage Language Research Institute. UNC-Chapel Hill/Online, 8 June 2021.

32. Nagy, N. 2021. Exploring variation and Change in Heritage Languages. Invited speaker, Abralin ao Vivo – Linguists Online. 5 May 2021. [Youtube link]

33. Nagy, N. 2021. Sociolinguistics of heritage languages. Invited speaker, LING262: LING262-0101: Heritage languages & their speakers, U Maryland, 23 March 2020.

34. Nagy, N. 2021. Intergenerational change in Toronto's heritage languages? Invited speaker, FRE/LIN 388: Second Language Acquisition, UTM, 1 Feb 2021.

35. Nagy, N. 2021. Prodrop in Heritage Cantonese and Korean is not influenced by English contact. [watch video] NWAV Asia-Pacific 6, National University of Singapore, 17-21 February 2021.

36. Nagy, N. 2021. Cross-generational change in heritage languages in Toronto? Center for Research on Language and Culture contact: Brown Bag presentation. 3 February 2021. [video recording]

37. Abtahian, M. Ravindranath, N. Nagy, K. Pabst & V. Elango, Panelists. 2021. Sociolinguistic research in the time of COVID: Methods, Ethics, Theory. 95th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA, 8 January 2021. [slides]

38. Nagy, N. 2020. Cross-generational change in heritage languages in Toronto? Invited speaker, Anglia Ruskin Research Centre for Intercultural and Multilingual Studies (ARRCIMS), Anglia Ruskin University. 20 October 2020. [video recording]

39. Nagy, N. & M. Abtahian. 2020. Our Languages, Our Lives and the Global Pandemic. Innovation Hub, University of Toronto, 26 August 2020.

40. Nagy, N. & T. Gadanidis. 2020. Heritage Language Variation and Change – How complex is it?. Twelfth Heritage Language Research Institute. Penn State University, 11 June 2020. [abstract]

41. Nagy, N., J. Stanford & H. Tse. 2020. Tone mergers in spontaneous speech and gaps in the tone inventory. 5th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL-5), The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. 18 April 2020. [abstract & slides]

42. Nagy, N. 2020. Intergenerational change in Toronto's heritage languages? Invited speaker, LIN 198: Language Diversity, University of Toronto, 10 March 2020.

43. Nagy, N. 2020. Prodrop in Heritage Cantonese and Korean: Not influenced by English contact. Invited speaker, LIN 499, Rice University, 4 March 2020.

44. Hoffman, M., N. Nagy, J. Walker & R. Beline Mendes. 2020. Sounds of the City: Perceptions of ethnically marked speech in Toronto. American Dialect Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 4 January 2020.

45. Nagy, N. 2019. How a linguist thinks about chocolate. Guest lecture in From Cacao to Chocolat, University of Maine, 4 December 2019. [Here's the video.]

46. Nagy, N. 2019. Intergenerational change in Toronto's heritage languages? Invited speaker, Sociolinguistics Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen 14 Nov. 2019.

47. Nagy, N. 2019. Intergenerational change in Toronto's heritage languages? Keynote speaker, Workshop on language variation and change in diaspora communities. University of Bern, Switzerland, 6-8 Nov. 2019.

48. Nagy, N. 2019. Panel Discussant with Miriam Meyerhoff: What's so standard about standards?, NWAV 48, Eugene, Oregon, 11 Oct. 2019. [Related slides & Discussion]

49. Nagy, N. 2019. Changement intergénérationnel des langues du patrimoine à Toronto? Labo SEDYL, INALCO, Paris, 4 October 2019.

50. Hoffman, M., N. Nagy, R. Mendes, & J. Walker. 2019. How do ethnolects mark ethnic identity?: An experimental approach. 4th Conference on Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation (Ex-App), 27 Sept. 2019.

51. Nagy, N., T. Gadanidis & J. Woo. 2019. Covariation in Heritage Cantonese in Toronto. UKLVC, Queen Mary University London, 3 Sept. 2019. [slides]

52. Nagy, N. 2019. Atélier ELAN, Faeto, Italy, 24 July 2019.

53. Nagy, N. 2019. Quelques études variationnistes d'une langue de patrimoine en deux pays. Giornata di studi sulla francofonia, Faeto, Italy, 23 July 2019.

54. Łyskawa, P. & N. Nagy. 2019. Marking Variation in Heritage Slavic Languages in Toronto. Heritage Language Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 June 2019.

55. Nagy, N. 2019. Heritage Language Speakers in the University Classroom Doing Research. Heritage Language Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 June 2019. [Poster, lightning talk, roundtable]

56. Woo, J., T. Gadanidis & N. Nagy 2019. Co-variation in Heritage Cantonese in Toronto. Buffalo-Toronto Variation Workshop. Toronto, 16 Mar 2019.

57. Nagy, N. 2019. Promoting linguistic and cultural diversity through Heritage Language Sociolinguistics. Diversity and multilingualism in a megacity workshop in honor of International Mother Languages Day, NY, NY, 22 Feb. 2019. Also presented in the French Department, U of T, 7 Feb. 2019, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 7 Mar. 2019, and the UTM Department of Language Studies, 3 Feb. 2021.

58. Nagy, N., R. Nodari & C. Celata. 2018. A variationist analysis of Heritage Italian VOT: Phonetic but not phonological fidelity. NWAV 47, NY, NY, 18-21 Oct. 2018.

59. M. Meyerhoff, R. Arnold, D. Barth, M. Dunn, S. Greenhill, E. Hazenberg, S. Klaere, N. Nagy, J. Niedzielski, J. Walker & R. Gray. 2018. New approaches to scaling up: Tracking variation from individual to group and to language. NWAV 47, NY, NY, 18-21 Oct. 2018.

60. Nagy, N. 2018. A variationist analysis of Heritage Italian VOT: Phonetic but not phonological fidelity. Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, 14 Sept. 2018.

61. Nagy, N. 2018. Ethnolectal research across the globe, panel participant. SS22, Auckland, NZ, 28 June 2018. (15:30-18:25)

62. Nagy, N. 2018. Francoprovençal in Europe and North America: Vitality and Variability. 1st Conference on Frisian Humanities. Leeuwarden, 24 April 2018.

63. Nagy, N. 2018. Cross-cultural sociolinguistic surprises. Dept. of Literatures, Languages and Linguistics, York U., 7 March, 2018.

64. Nagy, N. 2018. Socio-indexical phonetic features in Heritage Italian: VOT in Toronto. Center for the Study of Language in Society, Bern, 20 February 2018.

65. Nagy, N. 2018. The linguistic questionnaire and linguistic analyses. Methodological approaches to synchronic and diachronic heritage language data workshop, Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale, Université de Lausanne, 16-17 February 2018.

66. Nagy, N. 2018. What Heritage Cantonese speakers know about Homeland variation. Variation and change in Chinese, La Trobe University City Campus, 9 February 2018.

67. Nagy, N. 2018. Cross-cultural sociolinguistic surprises. NEW112, University of Toronto. 18 January, 2018.

68. Nagy, N. 2017. Cross-cultural approaches: Comparing heritage languages in Toronto. Department of English, U. Lausanne, Nov. 13, 2017.

69. Kasstan, J. & N. Nagy. 2017. Combler le fossé entre l’Europe et l’Amérique du nord : envers une ressource pan-atlantique multimodale. Entre Europe et Amérique du Nord: regards croisés sur le francoprovençal. Centre d'Etudes Francoprovençales René Willien, Saint-Nicolas, Vallée d'Aoste, 11 November, 2017. [ video of welcome talk!]

70. Nagy, N., M. Iannozzi, & D.J. Heap. 2017. Les pronoms sujets en faetar: une étude variationniste d'une langue de patrimoine. Entre Europe et Amérique du Nord: regards croisés sur le francoprovençal. Centre d'Etudes Francoprovençales René Willien, Saint-Nicolas, Vallée d'Aoste, 11 November, 2017. [ video of talk!]

71. Nagy, N. 2017. Phonetic vs. phonological variation in Heritage Italian VOT. Université Lyon2, Nov. 9, 2017.

72. Nagy, N. 2017. Homeland and Heritage Faetar: Is variation transmitted? Labo Langue Parole, Aix-en-Provence, Nov. 7, 2017.

73. Pabst, K., L. Konnelly, S Meslin, F. Wilson & N. Nagy. 2017. Transmission of variation between Homeland and Heritage Faetar, NWAV 46, Madison, WI, 4 Nov. 2017.

74. Nagy, N. 2017. Exploring Heritage Languages. Guest lecture, PRT350 "Portuguese Language and Society," University of Toronto, Oct. 11, 2017.

75. Nagy, N. 2017. Looking for contact effects in Heritage Languages – a comparative variationist approach. ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School, University of Regensburg, October 3, 2017.

76. Nagy, N. 2017. ELAN for Variationist Sociolinguistic Analysis. ISLE, the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE) Summer School, University of Regensburg, October 4-7, 2017.

77. Pabst, K., L. Konnelly, S Meslin, F. Wilson & N. Nagy. 2017. Transmission of variation between Homeland and Heritage Faetar”, U. Western Ontario Linguistics speaker series, September 26, 2017.

78. Tan, Ziwen Tracy & N. Nagy. 2017. VOT in heritage and Hong Kong Cantonese, Association canadienne de linguistique | Canadian Linguistic Association. Toronto, May 29, 2017.

79. Nagy, N. 2017. HLVC Goals and Methods. Toronto Language Tapestry Workshop. Toronto, April 28, 2017.

80. Nagy, N. 2017. Cross-cultural approaches: Comparing heritage languages in Toronto. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, March 24, 2017.

81. Nagy, N. 2017. Cross-cultural sociolinguistic surprises. Keynote speaker, TULCON 10, Toronto, March 4, 2017.

82. Nagy, N. Contact: Language change and attitude in Toronto’s heritage languages. Plenary Speaker, CRLCC International Conference. Glendon College, Toronto, November 19, 2016.

83. Nagy, N. & Ziwen Tan. Exploring Heritage Languages: Cantonese consonants. Guest lecture, NEW102 "Travelling Words: Language and Diversity," November 17, 2016, University of Toronto.

84. Nagy, N. Cross-cultural approaches: Comparing heritage languages in Toronto. Widening Horizons: Cross-cultural approaches to linguistic variation workshop at NWAV 45, Vancouver, November 3, 2016.

85. Gardiner, Shayna & N. Nagy. Stable variation and the role of continuous factor groups: A Meta-analysis. NWAV 45, Vancouver, November 3–6, 2016.

86. Lo, Samuel & N. Nagy. Variable use of Heritage Cantonese classifiers. NWAV 45, Vancouver, November 3–6, 2016.

87. Nagy, N. Cross-cultural sociolinguistic surprises in Toronto talk. NYU Linguistics Colloquium, NYC, October 14, 2016.

88. Łyskawa, Paulina, Valeriya Mordvinova & N. Nagy. Case marking variation in heritage Slavic languages in Toronto. Slavic Linguistic Society, Toronto, Sept. 23-25, 2016.

89. Nodari, Rosalba, Chiara Celata & N. Nagy. 2016. Immigrants’ speech: is phonetic attrition a necessary precondition for phonological attrition to occur? Third International Conference on Language Attrition, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, July 5-7, 2016.

90. Nagy, N. Speakers' attitudes and innovations in Toronto's heritage languages. Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, June 15-18, 2016.

91. Nagy, N. Heritage Language speakers as students, researchers & participants. Language Documentation 6: Research paths in language documentation, Bolzano, June 13-15, 2016.

92. Maddeaux, Ruth, Paulina Lyskawa, Emilia Melara & N. Nagy. (Why) is code-switching sometimes a predictor of contact effects? CVC 9, Ottawa, May 7-8, 2016

93. Lo, Samuel, Zahid Daudjee, Deepam Patel, Elaine Wang, Junrui Wu, and N. Nagy. 2016. Use of Heritage Cantonese and Korean classifiers in Toronto. Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL 3), The Ohio State University, Mar. 12-13.

94. Nagy, N. 2016. Studying more and less endangered heritage varieties. LSACELP Symposium "Documenting Variation in Endangered Languages", Washington, DC, Jan. 7, 2016. [slides]

95. Nagy, N. & Paulina Lyskawa. 2016. Moving forward with multilingual transcription. LSA Satellite session "Preparing your Corpus for Archival Storage". Washington, DC, Jan. 7, 2016. [slides]

96. Nagy, N., A. Chan, S. Lo, A. Wu, E. Wang. 2015. Toronto Cantonese heritage speakers' use of classifiers. APLA 2015, St. John's, Newfoundland, Nov. 6-7, 2015.

97. Nagy, N. 2015. Is Italian on the move in Toronto? Competence Centre for Language Studies, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, June 2015.

98. Walker, James, Naomi Nagy & Michol Hoffman. 2015. Challenges of diversity and identity in Toronto. Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization, The University of Hong Kong, June 3-6, 2015.

99. Nagy, N. Cross-dialect vs. cross-linguistic contact in Southern Italy. ICLAVE 8, Leipzig, May 27-29, 2015.

100. Nagy, N. 2015. Communities-based research. ICLAVE 8, Leipzig, May 27-29, 2015.

101. Chan, Ariel Shuk Ling & N. Nagy. 2015. Toronto Cantonese heritage speakers’ use of sortal classifiers. The Fifteenth LSHK Workshop on Classifiers, University of Hong Kong.

102. Nagy, N. 2015. Looking for contact in Toronto's Heritage Languages – a comparative variationist approach. University of Western Ontario, April 6, 2015.

103. Nagy, N. 2015. Heritage language variation and ethnic identity. Plenary, AAAL, Royal York Hotel, Toronto, March 21-24, 2015.

104. Walker, J., Nagy, N. & M. Hoffman. 2014. The Sociolinguistics of Immigration in Toronto: Contact and Identity. Int’l Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration. Rapallo, Italy.

105. Nagy, N. & Michael Iannozzi 2014. Intro to the HLVC Project, invited lecture. NEW102Y1 Travelling Words: Language and Diversity, University of Toronto, October 2014.

106. Nagy, N. & M. Iannozzi. 2014. Older speakers use more null subjects, but is the variable stable?: Accounting for contrasting reports of contact effects. NWAV 43, Chicago, October 2014.

107. Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. 2014. ELAN Workshop at NWAV 43, Chicago, October 2014.

108. Nagy, N. 2014. Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Cantonese: Vowels, pronouns, classifiers, VOT. Invited lecture, University of Amsterdam.

109. Nagy, N. 2014. Heritage Languages as new dialects, plenary speaker, Methods in Dialectology XV, University of Groningen.

110. Tse, Holman & N. Nagy. 2014. Exploring automated formant analysis for variationist study of Heritage Cantonese. CRC Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, Toronto, June 19, 2014.

111. Nagy, N. 2014. Heritage Language Variation and Change project: Italian varieties at home and in Toronto, Invited speaker, Contatto interlinguistico fra presente e passato, Pescara, Italy, May 29-31, 2014.

112. Nagy, N. 2014. Workshop: Using ELAN for sociolinguistic analysis. University of Szeged, June 2, 2014.

113. Cui, Naomi, Minyi Zhu, Vina Law, Holman Tse & N. Nagy. 2014. Exploring automated formant analysis for comparative variationist study of Heritage Cantonese and English. Change and Variation in Canada 8, Kingston, ON.

114. Nagy, N. 2014. Teaching and Heritage Languages, Project update. Invited speaker. Centre for Research on Language Contact, York University.

115. Nagy, N. 2014. Italian in Toronto (HLVC), invited lecture. ITA1031H: History of the Italian Language in North America, University of Toronto, March 19, 2014.

116. Nagy, N. 2013. Intro to the HLVC Project, invited lecture. JFL 478: Language variation and change in French, University of Toronto.

117. Nagy, N. 2013. Intro to the HLVC Project, invited lecture. NEW102Y1 Travelling Words: Language and Diversity, University of Toronto.

118. Nagy, N. & D. Denis. 2013. An amplification role for lexical frequency in syntactic variation? Testing with Heritage Italian pro-drop. NWAV 42, Pittsburgh.

119. Walker, J., N. Nagy & M. Hoffman. 2013. Two Sides of the Chinese Diaspora: English and Cantonese in Toronto, Invited panel: Multilingualism in the Chinese Diasporas, International Symposium on Bilingualism 9, Singapore.

120. Nagy, N. 2013. Is Italian on the move in Toronto? Lingue Migranti: The Global Languages of Italy and the Diaspora. City University of New York.

121. Nagy, N. 2013. Quelques études du pro-drop: Faetar et russe. l'Université de Nice, France. [download slides as 13 MB PDF]

122. Nagy, N. 2013. À la recherche des changements dans le faetar de Toronto. Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence. [download slides as 13 MB PDF]

123. Nagy, N. 2013. À la recherche des effets du contact à Toronto. Séminaire Pratiques langagières: terrains, méthodes, théories, Université Paris Diderot.

124. Nagy, N. 2013. Is Italian on the move in Toronto?, Department of Modern Languages, Exeter University.

125. Nagy, N. 2013. Looking for contact effects in Heritage Languages, Institute for Linguistics and Language Studies, Manchester University.

126. Nagy, N. 2013. Language contact and lexical change in homeland and heritage Faetar. LingLunch, University of Kent. [download slides as 11 MB PDF]

127. Costa, B., E. de Leeuw, N. Nagy, I. Sachdev & D. Sharma. 2013. Multilingual Capital: A Panel Discussion with the Public, Queen Mary University London.

128. Nagy, N. 2013. Looking for contact-induced change in Toronto's Heritage Languages, Departmental Colloquium, Queen Mary University London.

129. Nagy, N. 2013. Teaching and Heritage Languages. Women Scholars Speaker Series, University of Lethbridge.

130. Nagy, N. 2013. Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages. University of Alberta. [Watch the video]

131. Nagy, N. 2012. Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages. Linguistics Department, University of Pittsburgh.

132. Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for contact in Toronto's Heritage Languages. Penn State University.

133. Nagy, N. 2012. Corpus building and language contact. University of Florida. [slides pdf, handout]

134. Brook, M. & N. Nagy. 2012. Speech rate across generations in two Toronto Heritage Languages. The road less travelled. An international conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition. Toronto.

135. Nagy, N. 2012. Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages. The road less travelled. An international conference on heritage languages and heritage language acquisition. Toronto. [slides pdf]

136. Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Languages. Heritage languages: language contact-change-maintenance and loss in the wave of new migration landscapes. Wuppertal, Germany.

137. Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for contact-induced change in Heritage Cantonese: pronouns, classifiers and VOT. NWAV-Asia Pacific 2, Tokyo.

138. Nagy, N. & N. Lapinskaya. 2012. Cross-generational change in Heritage Russian Phonology. Change and Variation in Canada VI. Montreal.

139. Kang, Y. & N. Nagy. 2012. VOT merger in Homeland Seoul Korean and Heritage Toronto Korean. Canadian Linguistics Association. Waterloo.

140. Nagy, N. 2012. Homeland and Heritage Faetar. Romance Linguistics Guest Speaker Series, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign.

141. 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.

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

143. 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.

144. 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.

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

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

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

148. 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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

157. 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)

158. 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)

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

160. 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.

161. 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)

162. 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)

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

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

165. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

175. Irwin, T. & N. Nagy. 2007. The return of R. NWAV 36. Philadelphia. [abstract (PDF)]

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

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

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

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

180. 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.

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

182. 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.

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

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

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

186. Nagy, N. 2004. La minoranza franco-provenzale di Faeto. Dipartimento di Studi Comparati, Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio, Pescara, Italy.

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

188. Nagy, N. 'Live free or die' as a linguistic principle. Invited speaker at:
     • Dover 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)
189. Nagy, N. 2004. French in Quebec. Invited speaker at John Stark High School, Weare, NH.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

207. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

229. Nagy, N. 1996. The language contact situation in Montreal. Invited speaker at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
230. Nagy, N. 1996. Contact-induced language change in the Francoprovençal dialect of Faetar. LSA. San Diego.

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

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

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

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

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

236. 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.

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

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

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

Conference Posters

1. Nagy, N. 2019. Heritage Language Speakers in the University Classroom Doing Research. Heritage Language Research Institute Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 June 2019. [Poster, lightning talk, roundtable]

2. Wu, Alfred, Deepam Patel, Elaine Wang, Naomi Nagy, Samuel Lo and Zahid Daujee. 2016. Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Cantonese and Korean. Undergraduate Research Forum poster, University of Toronto.

3. Chow, Vivian, Paolo Frascà, Julia Grasso & Naomi Nagy. 2015. Heritage Language Variation and Change: Focus on Italian. Undergraduate Research Forum, University of Toronto.

4. Nagy, N., N. Aghdasi, D. Denis, Y.-J. Kang, A. Kochetov, A. Motut & J.A. Walker. Heritage Russian variation and change in Toronto. 2014. Международного междисциплинарного научного совещания БИЛИНГВИЗМ И БИКУЛЬТУРАЛИЗМ (International interdisciplinary scientific meeting: Bilingualism & Biculturalism). Perm State National Research University, April 26, 2014.

5. Zhu, M., N. Cui, V. Law & N. Nagy. 2014. Vowels in Cantonese and English of Heritage Cantonese speakers in Toronto. Undergraduate Research Forum, University of Toronto.

6. Nagy, N. & M. Meyerhoff. 2013. Extending ELAN into Quantitative Sociolinguistics. 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Manoa, Hawai'i. (e-poster, Handout 1, Handout 2)

7. 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)

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Service and Professional Activities

    SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

    Student research supervised

    • Undergraduate: Independent studies
    • Graduate: Theses, Generals Papers, independent studies, etc.

    Department Chair ( 2023-2026)

    Undergraduate Chair ( 2016-2019, 2021)

    Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics (TWPL), Advisor (2020-2022)

    Workshop organizer: Toronto Language Tapestry (April 2017)

    Workshop co-organizer: Workshop on heritage languages (May 2009)

    Member of the following extra-departmental committees:

    • ROP (Research Opportunity Program) Advisory Committee member 2018-2019
    • DDAH (Description of Duties and Allocation of Hours) Working Committee member 2017-2018

    Member of the following departmental committees:

    • PTR Committee, 2022-
    • Promotions Committee, 2022-
    • Departmental Ethics Review Committee member 2008-2009, Chair 2009-2012, 2013-2019
    • Multiple job search committees 2016-
    • LVC (Language Variation and Change) Research Group, Coordinator 2009-2012, 2013-2015
    • Departmental Website Committee, Chair 2014-15
    • Equipment committee 2008-2009, 2020-2021
    • Blog committee, Chair 2009-2012, 2020-2022
    • Search committee for Department Chair 2012, 2018, 2023
    • Admissions & Awards Committee 2013-2014, 2022-23
    • Outreach Committee 2013-2014, 2016-18, 2021
    • Library liaison 2013-2014

    Associate member of the following departments (for graduate student supervision):

    • French Department
    • Department of Spanish and Portuguese

    SERVICE AT UNH (1996-2008)

    Master's theses supervised at UNH

    Undergraduate research supervised at UNH

    • Member of the following UNH committees:
      • Linguistics Committee (1996-2008), Chair
      • Human Subjects Committee, Institutional Review Board (2000-2008)
      • Center for the Humanities Advisory Board (2006-2008)
      • English Department Graduate Committee (2006-2008)
      • English Department Undergraduate Committee (2007-2008)
    • UNH Linguistics Lab director
    • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Board (2003-2007)
      • Subcommittee: Undergraduate Research Journal
      • UROP Liaison for English Department
    • 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)
    • Center for the Humanities Advisory Board (2000-2003)
    • Italian Study Abroad Committee (2001-2002)
    • Canadian Studies Program Committee (1999-2003)
    • Research Advisory Board (1997-2001)
    • English Department Graduate Committee (2001-2002)
    • English Department Personnel Committee (2005-2006)
    • English Department Undergraduate Committee (1996-2001, 2003-2004)
    • English Department Ad Hoc Technology Committee (1996-2001)
    • European Cultural Studies Committee (1996-2003)

    SERVICE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY

    • Editorial
      • Editorial board, Language Variation and Change, 2023-
      • Editorial board, Heritage Language Journal, 2020-2024
      • Editorial board, Asia Pacific Language Variation, 2014-
      • Organizer and editor, NWAVE 24 Philadelphia, 1995
      • Editor, The Penn Review of Linguistics, 1992
    • Workshop co-organizer: Methods in Heritage Language Research (Postponed, originally scheduled for May 2020)
    • NWAV 44 Conference co-organizer (2013-2015)
    • Scientific Committee, Negotiating methodological challenges in linguistic research, Fribourg, Switzerland, 2014
    • Organizing committee, Methods in Dialectology 14, London, ON, 2011
    • Steering committee, Change & Variation in Canada (CVC), 2009-
    • Panel Organizer (with Hélène Blondeau), La variation sociolinguistique en situation de contact dans les Amériques. ACLA/CAAL Montreal, 2010.
    • Guest lecture coordinator, Linguistics Program, Swarthmore College, 1994-1995
    • Assistant organizer for NELS 25, 1994
    • Organizing committee, The Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 1992
    • President, Penn Linguistics Club 1992-1993
    • Librarian, University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Laboratory, 1991-1993
    • Member, Linguistic Society of America 1990-2018
      • Committee on Social and Political Concerns 2006-2009
      • Committee on Computing 1999-2002

    Media coverage

    • Interviewed on A Little More Conversation with Ben O’Hara-Byrne, about accents around New England and in Canada [starts at 14:40]. The interview was triggered by this Twitter post. January 17, 2023.
    • Interviewed on Can I Have A Word? with Bob LeDrew, and included in "BEST OF: Accents and linguistic variation with Prof. Naomi Nagy", April 7th, 2022.
    • Interviewed on Radio Canada about dictionaries updating their definitions to reflect changing use, particularly with respect to the request for a change in the definition of the word "racism." Posted 15 June 2020.
    • Interviewed for UofT's A&S News, about recent work on the HLVC Project and ROP for Undergrad research, by Jovana Jankovic. Posted 29 January 2020.
    • Interviewed on Radio Svizzera, about preserving and revitalizing Faetar, by Cristiano Tinazzi e Antonella Vicini. Broadcast 16 December 2019. Lots of spoken (and sung!) Faetar too!
    • Interviewed about the HLVC Project on Radio Canada's L'heure de pointe, by Alison Vicrobeck. Broadcast live 25 November 2019.
    • Interviewed for a Timeline Magazine (Fairchild TV, a Chinese-language channel) episode on endangered language preservation and documentation. A unique opportunity to watch a digital Faetar lesson dubbed over in Cantonese! by Alice Ngan, Oct. 14, 2015.
    • Interviewed for the Polemical Brain about the HLVC Project, by Selena Phillips-Boyle, Jan. 16, 2015.
    • Interviewed in Italian newspaper (Il Ducato) article about Faetar: Accenti provenzali sui monti Dauni, by Antonio Ricucci, April 30, 2012
    • Interviewed by Il Corriere Canadese on Faetar portion of HLVC project, March 27, 2009
    • Local/national media coverage of my research and teaching (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

    Reviewing

    • Journal reviewer:
      • Arborescences
      • Asia Pacific Language Variation
      • Canadian Journal of Linguistics
      • Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
      • Journal of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics
      • International Journal of the Sociology of Language
      • Journal of English Linguistics
      • Journal of French Language Studies
      • Journal of the International Phonetic Association
      • Journal of Laboratory Phonology
      • Journal of Linguistic Geography
      • Journal of Phonetics
      • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
      • Journal of Sociolinguistics
      • Language and Communication
      • Language and Linguistics Compass
      • Language and Speech
      • Language Learning
      • Language in Society
      • Language Variation and Change
      • Languages
      • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
      • Linguistic Documentation and Conservation
      • Phonology
      • Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics
      • University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
    • Book reviewer: Boa Vista Press, Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Peter Lang, Presses de l'Université Laval, Routledge, L’Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Wiley
    • Conference reviewer: American Dialect Society, Annual Symposium on Arabic Linguistics, Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics, Canadian Linguistic Association, Change and Variation in Canada, Chicago Linguistic Society, ExPortLiWorkshop, First Int’l Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration, Georgetown University Roundtable on Linguistics, ICLaVE, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Methods in Dialectology, NWAV(E), NWAV-Asia Pacific, New Zealand Language in Society, Northeast Linguistic Society, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Sociolinguistics of Globalization: (De)centring and (de)standardization
    • Funding reviewer: National Science Foundation, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche Société et culture Québec, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

    Languages

    • 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)  
    • Portuguese (beginner)