Current position
Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University
of Toronto
naomi dot nagy @ utoronto
dot ca
Education
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
BA cum Laude, June 1989.
Majors: linguistics (with Honors) and
French.
Visiting student in linguistics
and French
departments, Spring 1988.
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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-)
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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-)
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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)
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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]
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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)
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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)
Research Grants
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Victoria College SSHRC-SIG Award. Are Heritage Cantonese speakers ‘lazy’? 2021.
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SSHRC
INSIGHT GRANT.
Ethnolinguistic variation and change:
coordinating production and
perception. (Co-PI with Michol Hoffman). 2018-2021.
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SSHRC
INSIGHT GRANT. Norme(s) et
variation socio-stylistique:
Démythifier le français québécois.
(collaborator; PI Anne-José Villeneuve). 2018-2022. (435-2018-1005).
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SSHRC
post-doc supervisor. Darcie
Blainey, North American French,
language contact, and sound change.
January 2014-December 2016.
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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.
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Endangered Language
Fund Grant for
2002-03. Support for developing a
pedagogical grammar for Faetar.
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UNH
Faculty Development Grant,
for 2002. Support for developing a
pedagogical grammar for Faetar.
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UNH
Alumni Annual Gifts Fund grant
for 2002. Support for developing a
pedagogical grammar of Faetar.
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SUMMER
FACULTY FELLOWSHIP, UNH,
for 2000. Support for the completion
of a grammar of Faetar.
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GUSTAFSON FACULTY
FELLOWSHIP, UNH,
for 2000. Support for research to
produce a grammar of Faetar
for an Endangered Language grammar
series.
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SUMMER FACULTY
FELLOWSHIP, UNH,
for 1997. Support for fieldwork and
analysis of French as spoken by
Montreal Anglophones.
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Doctoral research
and study support
Curriculum Development
Grants
Honors
Dean's Research Excellence Award, University of Toronto, 2022.
Dean’s Excellence Award, University of Toronto, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022.
LabEx Visiting Professor (Chaire Internationale 2022), Université de Paris, Spring
2022.
Marco Polo Visiting Professor, University of Groningen, Summer 2015
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary University London. March 2013.
Academic Appointments
Chair, Department of Linguistics, 2023-2026.
Professor, Department of Linguistics, 2019-.
Associate
Professor, Department of Linguistics, 2013-2019.
Assistant
Professor, Department of Linguistics, 2008-2013.
Associate Faculty, Victoria
College, 2021-
Associate Graduate Faculty, Spanish
& Portuguese Department, 2016-
Associate Graduate Faculty, French Department, 2009-
Please see my Teaching webpage
for course descriptions and syllabi.
Associate Professor,
English Department. 2002-2008.
Assistant Professor,
English Department. 1996-2002.
Please see the "Prior
teaching" section of my Teaching
webpage.
- Visiting academic, School of
Linguistics and Applied Language
Studies. Taught two sociolinguistics
courses. July-August 2005
- 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
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French Teaching Assistant to Drs. John Rassias and Sarah Sully, taught intermediate level conversation and drill class daily. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
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Assistant Teacher for Language Outreach, taught English conversation at varying levels of proficiency in one-on-one and group sessions. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
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Language Outreach Instructor for Rassias Method workshops for teachers. Fall 1988-Spring 1989.
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Tutor in French and Italian for the Academic Skills Center. Fall 1986-Spring 1987.
Publications
forthcoming
Woo, J., T. Gadanidis & Naomi Nagy. accepted. Minimal co-variation in Toronto's Heritage Cantonese. In R. Orozco, M. Hoffman & R. Belin Mendes, eds. Connections, Contact and Coherence in Language Variation and Change.... Cambridge Scholars.
Cervantes, E., M. Hoffman, N. Nagy & J. Walker. to appear, Feb. 2025. Italians in Toronto. In F. Goglia & J. Hajek, eds. Italian(s) abroad: Italian language and migration in cities of the world. Berlin: de Gruyter.
2024
- Cristiano, A. & N. Nagy. 2024. Toronto Heritage Italian (r): Maintaining homeland patterns. In Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 14.1:37-48.
- Varatharaj, A., G. Scontras & N. Nagy. 2024. A multi-generational analysis of heritage language complexity (Ch. 6). In M. Polinsky & M.T. Putnam, eds. Formal approaches to complexity in heritage language grammars. pp. 133-152. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Nagy, N. 2024. Heritage Languages: Extending variationist approaches. Cambridge University Press. [abstract & TOC for book] [Now available (online and hard copy) through UofT Library.
- Nagy, N. & J. Petrosov. 2024. (Heritage) Russian case-marking: Variation and paths of change. Languages 9. special issue: Heritage Russian Bilingualism across the Lifespan, T. Ivanova-Sullivan & O. Laleko, eds. [graphical abstract]
- Nagy, N., H. Tse & J. Stanford. 2024. Have Cantonese tones merged in spontaneous speech? In R. Rao, ed. The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages. pp. 302-320. Cambridge University Press. [preprint]
- Nagy, N., P. Lyskawa, E. Moran & M. Urban. 2024. Phonetics of stop voicing in Heritage and Homeland Polish. In R. Rao, ed. The Phonetics and Phonology of Heritage Languages. pp. 321-342. Cambridge University Press.
2023
- Clear, A., N. Nagy & M. Hoffman. 2023.
Identifiably Italian: Acoustic Features of the Toronto Italian Ethnolinguistic Repertoire. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol 29: Selected Papers from NWAV 50.
- Di Salvo, M. & N. Nagy. 2023. Differential object marking in Italian: Evidence from two Italian heritage communities. Italian Journal of Linguistics 35.1:91-114.
2022
- Nagy, N. & C. Celata. 2022. Un corpus per lo studio della variazione sociolinguistica dell’italiano in contesto
migratorio. Atti SLI del Congresso “Corpora e Studi Linguistici”, Emanuela Cresti & Massimo Moneglia, eds. pp. 223-237. Milano: Officinaventuno. doi:10.17469/O2106SLI000015
- Celata, C. & N. Nagy. 2022. Sociophonetic variation and change in heritage languages: Lexical effects in Heritage Italian aspiration of voiceless stops. Language and Speech 67.2:438-462. DOI:10.1177/00238309221126483
- Di Salvo, M. & N. Nagy. 2022. Differential object marking in Heritage and Homeland Italian. In Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, R. Bayley, D. Preston & X. Li, eds. pp. 311-336. Philadelphia: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/silv.28.12dis [preprint]
- Nagy, N. & T. Gadanidis. 2022. Looking for Covariation in Heritage Italian in Toronto. In. K. Beaman & G. Guy, eds. The Coherence of linguistic communities: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning. pp. 107-126. Routledge.
- Abtahian, M., N. Nagy, V. Elango & K. Pabst. 2022. Disruptions due to COVID-19: Using mixed methods to identify factors influencing language maintenance and shift. In B. Sneller, ed., Special issue in Linguistics Vanguard on COVID-era sociolinguistics. Linguistics Vanguard 8.s3:331-341. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2021-0057
2021
- Umbal, P. & N. Nagy. 2021. Heritage Tagalog phonology and a variationist framework of language contact. Languages 6.4:201-227. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6040201
- Nagy, N. 2021. Review of Corpora and the changing society: Studies in the evolution of English. P. Rautionaho, A. Nurmi & J. Klemola (eds.). English Language and Linguistics 26.1:229-235. doi.org/10.1017/S136067432100023X
- Nagy, N. & T. Gadanidis. 2021.
Heritage language variation and change – How complex is it?
Heritage Language Journal 18:1-27. doi:10.1163/15507076-12340012 [abstract]
- Nagy, N. 2021. Heritage languages in Canada. Chapter 8 in S. Montrul & M. Polinsky, (eds.).
The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics. pp. 178-204. Cambridge University Press.
[pre-publication version]
- Baird, A., A. Cristiano & N. Nagy. 2021. Apocope in Heritage Italian.
Special issue Social and Psychological Factors in Bilingual Speech Production of Languages 6:120-139. https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/3/120
[abstract]
2020
- Nagy, N. & M. Brook.
2020. Constraints on speech rate: A heritage-language perspective. International Journal of Bilingualism 28.6: 1115-1134.
doi.org/10.1177/1367006920920935
- Nagy, N., M. Hoffman & J. Walker. 2020. How do Torontonians hear ethnic identity? Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics
42. doi.org/10.33137/twpl.v42i1.33190
- Pabst, K., L., Konnelly, F. Wilson, S. Meslin & N. Nagy. 2020. Variation in subject doubling in
Homeland and Heritage Faetar. Toronto
Working Papers in Linguistics
42. doi.org/10.33527/twpl.v42i1.33190
- Nagy, N. 2020. Review of Heritage Languages: A language contact approach, by S. Aalberse, A. Backus & P.
Muysken. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development [online].
2019
- Nagy, N. & S. Lo.
2019. Variation and change in Heritage and Hong Kong Cantonese classifiers Asia-Pacific Language Variation 5.1:84-108. doi.org/10.1075/aplv.17001.nag
- Łyskawa, P. & N. Nagy. 2019. Case marking variation in heritage Slavic languages in Toronto: Not so different. Language Learning 70.SI:122-156. doi.org/10.1111/lang.12348.
[supporting materials]
- Rey, L. & N. Nagy.
2019.
Automatic documentation of Faetar’s
[i]: a Methodology for discovering
vowel space using artificial neural
networks (Documentation
automatique de l’[i] en faetar : Une
méthodologie pour la découverte de
l'espace vocalique à l'aide de réseaux
neuronaux artificiels). Revue
Géolinguistique 18.
- Nodari, R., C. Celata
& N. Nagy. 2019. Socio-indexical
phonetic features in the heritage
language context: VOT in the Calabrian
community in Toronto. Journal
of Phonetics 73:91-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.12.005
2018
- Nagy, N. 2018. Linguistic
attitudes and contact effects in
Toronto’s heritage languages: A
variationist sociolinguistic
investigation. International Journal
of Bilingualism 22.4:429-446. DOI:10.1177/1367006918762160. [abstract]
- Kasstan, J. & N. Nagy,
eds. 2018 [online in 2017].
Francoprovençal: documenting contact
varieties in Europe and North America. International Journal of
the Sociology of Language
249.
[see
Table of Contents of the issue and
video
of presentations of most of the
papers].
- Kasstan, J. & N. Nagy.
2018 [online
in 2017]. Introduction.
(Francoprovençal: documenting contact
varieties in Europe and North America).
International
Journal of the Sociology of Language
249:1-10.
- Zulato, A., J. Kasstan
& N. Nagy. 2018 [online
in 2017]. An overview of
Francoprovençal vitality in Europe and
North America (introduction). International
Journal of the Sociology of Language
249:11-30.
- Nagy, N., M. Iannozzi
& D. Heap. 2018. [online
in 2017]. Faetar null subjects: A
variationist study of a heritage
language in contact. International
Journal of the Sociology of Language
249:31-47.
2017
- Nagy, N. 2017. Review
of M. Schmid & B. Köpke, The
relevance of first language attrition
to theories of bilingual development.
Linguistic
Approaches to Bilingualism
7.6:744-749.
- Gardiner, S. & Nagy,
N. 2017. Stable variation vs. language
change, and the factors that constrain
them. Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics
23.2.10.
- Nagy, N. 2017.
Cross-cultural approaches: Comparing
heritage languages in Toronto. Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics
23.2.12.
- Nagy, N. and M. Hoffman,
eds. 2017. Variation at the
Crossroads: Advancing theory by
integrating methods, special issue of
the Canadian
Journal of Linguistics/Revue
canadienne de linguistique 62.4.
[Table
of Contents and video
of many of the relevant presentations]
- Nagy, N. 2017. Documenting
variation in (endangered) heritage
languages: how and why?. Language
Documentation and Conservation
SP13.
- Nagy, N. 2017. Heritage
Language speakers in the university
classroom, doing research. In P.
Trifonas & T. Aravossitas, eds. International
Handbook on Research and Practice in
Heritage Language Education.
Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-38893-9_41-1. [abstract]
2016
- Nagy, N. 2016. Book
Review: D. Smakman and P. Heinrich
(eds.). Globalising
Sociolinguistics: Challenging and
Expanding Theory. Abingdon,
U.K./New York: Routledge. 2015. Journal of Sociolinguistics
20.5:712–717. doi: 10.1111/josl.12221
- Łyskawa, P., R. Maddeaux,
E. Melara & N. Nagy. 2016.
Heritage speakers follow all the rules: Language contact and convergence in Polish devoicing. Heritage Language Journal
13.2:219-244. [abstract]
- Kang, Y.-J. & N. Nagy.
2016. VOT merger in Heritage Korean in
Toronto. Language Variation and Change
28.2:249-272. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095439451600003X
[abstract]
- Nagy, N. 2016. Heritage languages as new dialects. The Future of Dialects:
Selected papers from Methods in
Dialectology XV.
Marie-Hélène Côté, Remco Knooihuizen
& John Nerbonne (eds.). Berlin:
Language Science. 15-34. doi: 10.17169/langsci.b81.81
2015
- Nagy, N. & M.
Meyerhoff. 2015. Extending
ELAN into Variationist
Sociolinguistics. Linguistics Vanguard 1.1:271-281. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2015-0012
- Nagy, G. & N. Nagy.
2015. Tongue in Cheek. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 9279:332-342. (Proceedings of Image Analysis and Processing
— ICIAP
2015).
- Nagy, N. 2015. A
sociolinguistic view of null subjects
and VOT in Toronto heritage languages.
Lingua 164B:309-327.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.04.012. [abstract]
- Nagy, N., N. Aghdasi, Y.
Kang, A. Kochetov, D. Denis, A. Motut
& J. Walker. 2015. Heritage
Russian variation and change in
Toronto. Международного
междисциплинарного научного совещания
БИЛИНГВИЗМ И БИКУЛЬТУРАЛИЗМ
(Proceedings of the International
interdisciplinary scientific meeting:
Bilingualism & Biculturalism).
Perm State National Research University.
2014
- Nagy, N., J. Chociej &
M. Hoffman. 2014.
Analyzing Ethnic Orientation in the
quantitative sociolinguistic paradigm.
In L. Hall-Lew & M.
Yaeger-Dror. Special issue of Languageand Communication: New perspectives on the concept of ethnic identity in North America 35:9-26.
2013
- Nagy, N. & D. Sharma.
2013. Transcription. In R.
Podesva & D.
Sharma, eds. Research Methods
in Linguistics. 235-256.
Cambridge University Press.
- Kang, Y. & N. Nagy.
2013. VOT
merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto.
Proceedings
of the Canadian Linguistics
Association 2012.
- Nagy, N. & A.
Kochetov. 2013. VOT
across the generations: A
cross-linguistic study of
contact-induced change. In P.
Siemund, I. Gogolin, M. Schulz & J.
Davydova, (eds.). Multilingualism
and language contact in urban areas:
Acquisition - Development - Teaching
- Communication. 19-38.
John Benjamins.
2012
- Nagy, N. 2012. Sociolinguistics
and Phonology. In R. Bayley, C.
Lucas, & R. Cameron. The
Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics.
624-654. Oxford University Press.
2011
- Nagy, N. 2011. A
multilingual corpus to explore
geographic variation. Rassegna
Italiana di Linguistica Applicata
43.1-2:65-84. [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 published 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. (
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) (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. (PDF)
2002
- Blondeau, H., N. Nagy, G.
Sankoff & P. Thibault. 2002. La
couleur locale du français L2 des
anglo-montréalais. In R. Mougeon &
J.-M. Dewaele (eds.). L’acquisition
de la variation par les apprenants du
français langue seconde. Proceedings
of the Association internationale des
langues étrangères (ENCRAGES).
73-100. (see abstract)
2001
- Nagy, N. 2001.
Writing a sociolinguistic grammar of
Faetar. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 7.3:
Selected Papers from NWAV 29.
225-246.
- 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
- Nagy, N. &
H. Blondeau. 1999. Double
subject marking in L2 Montreal French.
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics.
Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania. 93-108.
- 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 à
l'Université Laval. Quebec: Nota
bene. 291-300.
1997
Nagy, N. &
B. Reynolds. 1997. Optimality
theory and variable word-final
deletion in Faetar. Language
Variation and Change 9.1:37-56.
- 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. [abstract]
1996
Nagy, N. 1996.
Language contact and language change in the Faetar speech community.
University of Pennsylvania PhD dissertation. Philadelphia: IRCS.
IRCS Technical Report 96-08; or order
from ProQuest.
See the dissertation proposal.
- 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
- Reynolds, B.
& N. Nagy. 1994. Phonological
variation in Faetar: An Optimality
Account. Chicago
Linguistic Society 30-II: Papers
from the Parasession on Variation and
Linguistic Theory. 277-292.
Chicago.
- 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)
- Nagy, N. 1993. Variation in the Assimilation of Igbo Vowels in
Hiatus. (ms.)
1992
- Nagy, N. (ed.) 1992. The Penn Review of Linguistics
16.
Conference and Invited Presentations
Upcoming
- Nagy, N. , J.R. Kasstan, C. Dunoyer & L. Seguin. 2025 Inter-dependent revitalization and field research: Linking Homeland and Heritage Francoprovençal. International Conference on New Issues in Language Contact Studies. Università degli Studi dell'’Aquila, 28-30 May 2025.
- Nagy, N., J.R. Kasstan & C. Dunoyer. 2025. Navigating digital realities in diaspora: #FPGlobal bridges Homeland and Heritage Francoprovençal.
International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC 9), U Hawai'i, 6-9 March 2025.
- Celata, C., Frontera, M. Nagy, N., & Vallicelli, C. "Tuttho qui" or "thutto qhui"? Patterns of variation in heritage and homeland production of a sociophonetic variable. La voce della grammatica: Nuove prospettive sull’interazione tra fonetica e morfologia, sintassi, lessico, XXI AISV Annual Conference, Urbino, 6-8 February, 2025.
Past
- Nagy, N. Heritage Languages: Extending variationist approaches toward computational approaches. Invited speaker,
Ontario Tech University, 4 September 2024.
- Nagy, N. 2024. #FPGlobal pe vuss. Faeto (Casa Parocchiale), Italy. 19 July 2024.
- Nagy, N. & Kasstan, J. 2024. #FPGlobal. L'École d'été, Centre d'Etudes francoprovençales "René Willien", Saint-Nicolas, Vallée d'Aoste, Italy. 8-12 July 2024. [ video of talk part 1, part 2]
- Kasstan, J. & Nagy, N. Electronically mediating global language revitalization efforts: Linking Homeland and Heritage Francoprovençal. ICLAVE 12, Vienna, Austria, 8-11 July 2024.
- Nagy, N. Heritage Languages: Extending variationist approaches. Invited speaker,
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, 4 July 2024.
- Russo, M., Sorianello, P., Mazzone, L., Kasstan, J. & Nagy, N. 2024. L’Archive numérique sonore et ethnographique de Faeto et Celle di San Vito. Le francoprovençal : des origines à aujourd’hui. Matériaux pour l’histoire du francoprovençal et pour sa transmission, Lyon, France, 13-14 June 2024.
- Kisselev, O., N. Nagy, S. Wulff. 2024. Myth-busting corpus linguistics for heritage language research. Fifteenth Heritage Language Research Institute. University of California, Irvine, 12 June 2024.
- Nagy, N. 2024. Case-marking: Variation and paths of change. Keynote Speaker, Language Research Day, University of Toronto. 3 June 2024.
- Nagy, N. 2024. Minority Languages, Ausbau and Abstand Languages. Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Ukraine, and University of Pannonia, Hungary (remote), 10 May 2024.
- Nagy, N. A sociolinguistic model for electronically mediating language revitalization. Description, Documentation and Revitalization Group. 31 January 2024.
- Nagy, N. Language Variation and Change: From Cacao to Chocolat. Exploring Linguistics and Language Lecture Series, Third Age Learning Guelph, Guelph. 12 January 2024.
- Nagy, N. 2023. Extending variationist approaches to more languages: Problems & Possibilities. NWAV 51, Queens College, New York. 14 October 2023.
- Petrosov, J. & N. Nagy. 2023. (Heritage) Russian case-marking: Variation and paths of change. NWAV 51, Queens College, New York. 13 October 2023.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. Heritage Languages: Extending variationist approaches. Invited speaker, TABU Dag 2023. Groningen, The Netherlands, 16 June 2023.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cristiano, A. & N. Nagy. 2022. Another (r): Variation and social meaning in Heritage Italian. NWAV50, online/Palo Alto, CA, 13-15 October 2022.
- 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.
- LiVolsi, S., A. Cristiano & N. Nagy. 2022. Modeling Italian variable apocope: A formal analysis of a sociolinguistic pattern. SPF 2022, Toronto, 8 August 2022.
- Hoffman, M., N. Nagy, & J. Walker. Sounds in the City: Perceptions of Ethnicity in Toronto English. Methods XVII. Mainz, Germany, 1-5 August 2022.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. Promoting linguistic and cultural diversity through heritage language sociolinguistics. Keynote speaker, Heritage Languages Around the World. Lisbon, Portugal. 18 May 2022
- 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.
- Celata, C. & N. Nagy. 2022. Lexical frequency effects in Italian VOT: Minority vs. majority language effects ICLAVE 11, Vienna/Online. 12-14 April 2022.
- 2022. Introducing Faetar: A Double Heritage Language. Guest lecture for Romance Dialectology, York University, Glendon Campus, Toronto, ON, 28 March 2022.
- Nagy, N. 2021. Heritage Language sociolinguistic fieldwork in Toronto. Invited speaker, University of Vienna, 30 November 2021.
- Abtahian, M., N. Nagy & K. Pitt. 2021. Multilingual students’ language ecologies and COVID-19. Sounds of Migration, Penn State U. 5-6 November 2021.
- Umbal, P. & N. Nagy. 2021. Toronto Heritage Tagalog (r): What makes it vary? NWAV49, Austin,TX/Online. 19-24 October 2021. [video]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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]
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2021. Exploring variation and Change in Heritage
Languages. Invited speaker, Abralin
ao Vivo – Linguists Online. 5 May 2021. [Youtube link]
- Nagy, N. 2021.
Sociolinguistics of heritage languages.
Invited speaker, LING262: LING262-0101:
Heritage languages & their speakers,
U Maryland, 23 March 2020.
- Nagy, N. 2021.
Intergenerational change in Toronto's
heritage languages? Invited speaker,
FRE/LIN 388: Second Language
Acquisition, UTM, 1 Feb 2021.
- 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.
- 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]
-
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]
- 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]
- Nagy, N. & M.
Abtahian. 2020. Our
Languages, Our Lives and the Global
Pandemic. Innovation
Hub, University of Toronto, 26
August 2020.
- 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]
- 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]
- Nagy, N. 2020.
Intergenerational change in Toronto's
heritage languages? Invited speaker, LIN
198: Language Diversity, University of
Toronto, 10 March 2020.
- Nagy, N. 2020. Prodrop in
Heritage Cantonese and Korean: Not
influenced by English contact. Invited
speaker, LIN
499, Rice University, 4 March
2020.
- 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.
- 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.]
- Nagy, N. 2019.
Intergenerational change in Toronto's
heritage languages? Invited speaker, Sociolinguistics
Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen
14 Nov. 2019.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2019. Panel
Discussant with Miriam
Meyerhoff: What's so standard
about standards?, NWAV
48, Eugene, Oregon, 11 Oct. 2019.
[Related
slides & Discussion]
- Nagy, N. 2019. Changement
intergénérationnel des langues du
patrimoine à Toronto? Labo
SEDYL, INALCO,
Paris, 4 October 2019.
- 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.
- Nagy, N., T. Gadanidis & J. Woo. 2019. Covariation in Heritage Cantonese in Toronto.
UKLVC, Queen Mary University London, 3 Sept. 2019.
[slides]
- Nagy, N. 2019. Atélier ELAN, Faeto,
Italy, 24 July 2019.
- Nagy, N. 2019. Quelques
études variationnistes d'une langue de
patrimoine en deux pays. Giornata
di studi sulla francofonia, Faeto,
Italy, 23 July 2019.
- Łyskawa, P. & N.
Nagy. 2019. Marking Variation in
Heritage Slavic Languages in Toronto. Heritage
Language Research Institute,
Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 June 2019.
- 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]
- Woo, J., T. Gadanidis
& N. Nagy 2019. Co-variation in
Heritage Cantonese in Toronto. Buffalo-Toronto
Variation Workshop. Toronto, 16
Mar 2019.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2018. A
variationist analysis of Heritage
Italian VOT: Phonetic but not
phonological fidelity. Department of Linguistics, University of
Pittsburgh, 14 Sept. 2018.
- Nagy, N. 2018. Ethnolectal
research across the globe, panel
participant. SS22,
Auckland, NZ, 28 June 2018.
(15:30-18:25)
- Nagy, N. 2018.
Francoprovençal in Europe and North
America: Vitality and Variability. 1st Conference on Frisian Humanities.
Leeuwarden, 24 April 2018.
- Nagy, N. 2018.
Cross-cultural sociolinguistic
surprises. Dept. of Literatures,
Languages and Linguistics, York U., 7
March, 2018.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2018. What
Heritage Cantonese speakers know about
Homeland variation. Variation and
change in Chinese, La
Trobe University City Campus, 9
February 2018.
- Nagy, N. 2018.
Cross-cultural sociolinguistic
surprises. NEW112,
University of Toronto. 18 January, 2018.
- Nagy, N. 2017. Cross-cultural
approaches: Comparing heritage
languages in Toronto. Department
of English, U. Lausanne, Nov. 13, 2017.
- 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!]
- 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!]
- Nagy, N. 2017. Phonetic
vs. phonological variation in Heritage
Italian VOT. Université Lyon2, Nov. 9,
2017.
- Nagy, N. 2017. Homeland
and Heritage Faetar: Is variation
transmitted? Labo
Langue Parole, Aix-en-Provence,
Nov. 7, 2017.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2017. Exploring
Heritage Languages. Guest lecture,
PRT350 "Portuguese Language and
Society," University of Toronto, Oct.
11, 2017.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tan, Ziwen Tracy & N.
Nagy. 2017. VOT
in heritage and Hong Kong Cantonese,
Association canadienne de linguistique
| Canadian Linguistic Association.
Toronto, May 29, 2017.
- Nagy, N. 2017. HLVC Goals
and Methods. Toronto
Language Tapestry Workshop.
Toronto, April 28, 2017.
- Nagy, N. 2017.
Cross-cultural approaches: Comparing
heritage languages in Toronto. The
Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH, March 24, 2017.
- Nagy, N. 2017.
Cross-cultural sociolinguistic
surprises. Keynote speaker, TULCON
10, Toronto, March 4, 2017.
- Nagy, N. Contact: Language
change and attitude in Toronto’s
heritage languages. Plenary Speaker, CRLCC
International Conference. Glendon
College, Toronto, November 19, 2016.
- Nagy, N. & Ziwen Tan.
Exploring Heritage Languages: Cantonese
consonants. Guest lecture, NEW102
"Travelling Words: Language and
Diversity," November 17, 2016,
University of Toronto.
- 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.
- Gardiner, Shayna & N.
Nagy. Stable variation and the role of
continuous factor groups: A
Meta-analysis. NWAV
45, Vancouver, November 3–6, 2016.
- Lo, Samuel & N. Nagy.
Variable use of Heritage Cantonese
classifiers. NWAV
45, Vancouver, November 3–6, 2016.
- Nagy, N. Cross-cultural
sociolinguistic surprises in Toronto
talk. NYU
Linguistics Colloquium, NYC,
October 14, 2016.
- Łyskawa, Paulina,
Valeriya Mordvinova & N. Nagy. Case
marking variation in heritage Slavic
languages in Toronto. Slavic
Linguistic Society, Toronto, Sept.
23-25, 2016.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. Speakers'
attitudes and innovations in Toronto's
heritage languages. Sociolinguistics
Symposium 21, Murcia, June 15-18,
2016.
- Nagy, N. Heritage
Language speakers as students,
researchers & participants. Language
Documentation 6: Research paths in
language documentation, Bolzano,
June 13-15, 2016.
- 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
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2016. Studying
more and less endangered heritage
varieties. LSACELP
Symposium "Documenting Variation in
Endangered Languages", Washington, DC,
Jan. 7, 2016. [slides]
- 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]
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2015. Is Italian
on the move in Toronto? Competence
Centre for Language Studies, Free
University of Bozen-Bolzano, June
2015.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. Cross-dialect vs.
cross-linguistic contact in Southern
Italy. ICLAVE
8, Leipzig, May 27-29, 2015.
- Nagy, N. 2015.
Communities-based research. ICLAVE
8, Leipzig, May 27-29, 2015.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2015. Looking for
contact in Toronto's Heritage Languages
– a comparative variationist approach. University
of Western Ontario, April 6, 2015.
- Nagy, N. 2015. Heritage
language variation and ethnic identity.
Plenary, AAAL,
Royal
York Hotel, Toronto, March 21-24,
2015.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. & Michael
Iannozzi 2014. Intro to the HLVC
Project, invited lecture. NEW102Y1
Travelling Words: Language and
Diversity, University of Toronto,
October 2014.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. & M.
Meyerhoff. 2014. ELAN
Workshop at NWAV
43, Chicago, October 2014.
- Nagy, N. 2014. Looking for
contact-induced change in Heritage
Cantonese: Vowels, pronouns,
classifiers, VOT. Invited lecture,
University of Amsterdam.
- Nagy, N. 2014. Heritage
Languages as new dialects, plenary
speaker, Methods
in Dialectology XV, University
of Groningen.
- Tse, Holman & N. Nagy.
2014. Exploring automated formant
analysis for variationist study of
Heritage Cantonese. CRC Summer
Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, Toronto,
June 19, 2014.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2014. Workshop:
Using ELAN
for sociolinguistic analysis. University
of Szeged, June 2, 2014.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2014. Teaching
and Heritage
Languages, Project update. Invited
speaker. Centre
for Research on Language Contact,
York University.
- Nagy, N. 2014. Italian in
Toronto (HLVC),
invited lecture. ITA1031H:
History of the Italian Language in North
America, University of Toronto, March
19, 2014.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Intro to
the HLVC
Project, invited lecture. JFL
478: Language variation and change in
French, University of Toronto.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Intro to
the HLVC
Project, invited lecture. NEW102Y1
Travelling Words: Language and
Diversity, University of Toronto.
- Nagy, N. & D. Denis.
2013. An amplification role for lexical
frequency in syntactic variation?
Testing with Heritage Italian pro-drop.
NWAV
42, Pittsburgh.
- 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.
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Quelques
études du pro-drop: Faetar et russe. l'Université de
Nice, France. [download
slides as 13 MB PDF]
- 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]
- Nagy, N. 2013. À la
recherche des effets du contact à
Toronto. Séminaire Pratiques
langagières: terrains, méthodes,
théories, Université
Paris Diderot.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Is Italian
on the move in Toronto?, Department
of Modern Languages, Exeter University.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Looking for
contact effects in Heritage Languages, Institute for Linguistics
and Language Studies, Manchester
University.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Language
contact and lexical change in homeland
and heritage Faetar. LingLunch, University
of Kent. [download
slides as 11 MB PDF]
- Costa, B., E. de Leeuw, N.
Nagy, I. Sachdev & D. Sharma. 2013.
Multilingual
Capital: A Panel Discussion with the
Public, Queen
Mary University London.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Looking for
contact-induced change in Toronto's
Heritage Languages, Departmental
Colloquium, Queen Mary University
London.
- Nagy, N. 2013. Teaching
and Heritage Languages. Women
Scholars Speaker Series, University of
Lethbridge.
- Nagy, N. 2013.
Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages.
University
of Alberta.
[Watch the video]
- Nagy, N. 2012.
Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages.
Linguistics Department, University of
Pittsburgh.
- Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for
contact in Toronto's Heritage Languages.
Penn
State University.
- Nagy, N. 2012. Corpus
building and language contact.
University of Florida. [slides
pdf, handout]
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2012.
Sociolinguistics of Heritage Languages.
The
road less travelled. An international
conference on heritage languages and
heritage language acquisition.
Toronto. [slides
pdf]
- 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.
- Nagy, N. 2012. Looking for
contact-induced change in Heritage
Cantonese: pronouns, classifiers and
VOT. NWAV-Asia
Pacific 2, Tokyo.
- Nagy, N. & N.
Lapinskaya. 2012. Cross-generational
change in Heritage Russian Phonology. Change
and Variation in Canada VI.
Montreal.
- Kang, Y. & N. Nagy.
2012. VOT merger in Homeland Seoul
Korean and Heritage Toronto Korean. Canadian Linguistics
Association. Waterloo.
- Nagy, N. 2012. Homeland
and Heritage Faetar. Romance Linguistics
Guest Speaker Series, University of
Illinois-Urbana Champaign.
- 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. La
minoranza franco-provenzale di Faeto.
Dipartimento di Studi Comparati,
Università degli Studi G. d’Annunzio,
Pescara, Italy.
- 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:
- 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)
- 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. The
language contact situation in Montreal.
Invited speaker at the University of
Alabama-Birmingham.
- 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. 2019. Heritage
Language Speakers in the University
Classroom Doing Research. Heritage
Language Research Institute
Albuquerque, NM, 10-13 June 2019.
[Poster, lightning talk, roundtable]
- 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.
- Chow, Vivian, Paolo
Frascà, Julia Grasso & Naomi Nagy.
2015. Heritage Language Variation and
Change: Focus on Italian. Undergraduate
Research Forum, University of Toronto.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
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2020-2024
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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
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- NWAV 44 Conference co-organizer
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- Scientific Committee, Negotiating methodological challenges in
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- Steering committee, Change & Variation in Canada (CVC), 2009-
- Panel Organizer (with Hélène Blondeau), La variation
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Montreal, 2010.
- Guest lecture coordinator, Linguistics
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1994-1995
- Assistant organizer for NELS 25, 1994
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Linguistics Colloquium, 1992
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1990-2018
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:
- 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
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