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Endangered
Language Fund Grant for 2002-03. Support for developing a pedagogical grammar for Faetar.
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Canadian
Embassy Faculty Enrichment Grant for
Summer-Fall 2002. Support for developing a course on language variation in
Canada.
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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 for 2000. This grant supports the completion of a grammar of Faetar.
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GUSTAFSON FACULTY FELLOWSHIP for 2000. This grant supports a
semester of research to produce a grammar of Faetar for an Endangered Language grammar series.
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SUMMER FACULTY FELLOWSHIP for 1997. This grant supports a period of
fieldwork and analysis of French as spoken by Montreal Anglophones.
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MELLON/SAS DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP for 1995-96. This is a
full-support grant awarded by the University of Pennsylvania for outstanding scholarship and academic record.
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SALVATORI RESEARCH GRANTS in 1992, 1993, and 1994. These grants
supported extensive field work on language contact and sound change in
Faetar, a Francoprovençal dialect spoken in southern Italy.
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DEAN'S GRANT This grant from the Associate Dean of Arts and
Sciences offset research expenses incurred during fieldwork in Faeto during
the summer of 1994.
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LSA FELLOWSHIP for Linguistics Institute 1993. This fellowship paid
my tuition for six summer courses.
Teaching Experience
Please see Teaching webpage for details.
Courses
- 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
THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN
SWITZERLAND Lugano, Switzerland
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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
Kang, Y. & N. Nagy. forthcoming. VOT merger in Heritage Korean in Toronto. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistics Association 2012.
Nagy, N. & D. Sharma. forthcoming. Transcription. In R. Podesva & D. Sharma, eds. Research Methods in Linguistics. Cambridge University Press.
2013
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. John Benjamins. 19-38.
2012
Nagy, N. 2012. Sociolinguistics and Phonology. In R. Bayley, C. Lucas, & R. Cameron. Oxford Handbook of Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press. 624-654.
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 appeared in 2004.)
2007
Irwin, T. & N. Nagy. 2007. Bostonians /r/ speaking: A quantitative look at (R) in Boston. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 13.2. Selected papers from NWAV 35. 135-47.
2006
Labov, W.,
S. Ash, M. Ravindranath, T. Weldon, M. Baranowski, & N. Nagy. 2006. Listeners' sensitivity to the frequency of sociolinguistic
variables.
Penn Working Papers in
Linguistics 12.2: Selected papers from NWAV
34. 105-29
Nagy, N., X. Zhang, G. Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2006.
Clustering dialects automatically -- A Mutual Information approach. Penn
Working Papers in Linguistics 12.2: Selected papers from NWAV
34. 145-58. (Download PDF.) (Addenda
to paper.)
Nagy. N. 2006. Experimental methods for study of linguistic variation.
In K. Brown, ed. Encyclopedia
of Language & Linguistics, 2nd ed. Oxford: Elsevier. vol. 4,
390-394. (ISBN 0-08-044299-4) (Download
PDF)
Roberts, J., N. Nagy & C. Boberg. 2006. Yakking with the Yankees
(New England). In W. Wolfram & B. Ward, eds. American
Voices: How Dialects Differ from Coast to Coast .
Blackwell. 57-62. [Reprint of Nagy, Roberts, & Boberg 2001]
2005
Nagy, Naomi, Xiaoli Zhang, George Nagy & E.W. Schneider. 2005. A Quantitative categorization
of phonemic dialect features in context (.PDF) . In A. Dey et al.
(eds.) CONTEXT 2005 Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence 3554.
Springer-Verlag. pp. 326-338. (Addenda
to paper.)
2004
Nagy, N. & J. Roberts. 2004. New England:
phonology (.PDF).
In Edgar Schneider, Kate Burridge, Bernd Kortmann, Rajend Mesthrie and Clive
Upton,eds. A
Handbook of Varieties of English. Volume 1: Phonology. Berlin, NY: Mouton
de Gruyter. 270-281. [This is a multimedia volume. There is a free sneak preview
at
www.mouton-online.com.]
2003
Nagy, N., H. Blondeau, & J. Auger. 2003. Second
language acquisition and "real" French: An investigation of subject
doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones. Language
Variation and Change
15.1:73-103. (see,
(PDF
of paper)).
Blondeau, H., N. Nagy, G. Sankoff & P. Thibault. 2003. La couleur locale
du français L2 des Anglo-Montréalais. In R. Mougeon & J.-M.
Dewaele (eds.). Appropriation de la variation du français
par les apprenants avancés du français langue étrangère
ou seconde. Proceedings of the Association Internationale des langues étrangères (ENCRAGES).
73-100. (see abstract)
2001
Nagy, N. 2001. 'Live
free or die' as a linguistic principle (.PDF). American Speech 76.1:30-41.
(abstract)
Nagy, N. 2001.Stress and schwa in Faetar (.zip).
In Italian Dialects and Phonological Theory. Lori Repetti (ed.). Current
Issues in Linguistic Theory series. Philadelphia: Benjamins 239-254.
Nagy, N., J. Roberts, & C. Boberg. 2001. Yakking with the Yankees. American
Language Review 5.1:40-43.
2000
Nagy, N. 2000. Faetar. Munich: Lincom Europa. (ordering
information)
Nagy, N. 2000. What I didn't know
about working in an endangered language community: Some fieldwork issues. International
Journal of the Sociology of Language 144:143-160.
Nagy, N.2000. Field work in Faeto,
an endangered language community. Southern Journal of Linguistics1:121-136. (.zip)
Ryback-Soucy, W. & N. Nagy. 2000. Exploring
the dialect of the Franco-Americans of Manchester, NH. Journal of English
Linguistics 28.3:249-264. (.zip)
1999
H. Blondeau & N. Nagy. 1999. Double
marquage du sujet dans le français parlé par de jeunes Anglo-Montréalais.
In Actes de L'association canadienne de linguistique. Ottawa: Cahiers
Linguistiques d'Ottawa. 59-70.
1998
Nagy, N. & D. Heap. 1998. Francoprovençal
Null Subject and Constraint Interaction. In M. C. Gruber, D. Higgins, K.S.
Olson & T. Wysocki (eds.), CLS 34: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago
Linguistic Society; 34.2:151-166.
Nagy, G., N. Nagy, & M. Sabourin. 1998. Signes
diacritiques: perdus et retrouvés. In R. Plamondon & R. Sabourin
(eds.). 1er Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document. Quebec:
Les Cahiers scientifiques. 404-412.
Heap, D. & N. Nagy. 1998. Subject
pronoun variation in Faetar and Francoprovencal. Papers in
Sociolinguistics. NWAVE-26 a l'Universite Laval. Quebec: Nota bene. 291-300.
1997
Sankoff, G., P. Thibault, N. Nagy, H. Blondeau, M. Fonollosa, & L.
Gagnon. 1997. Variation and the use of
discourse markers in a language contact situation. Language Variation and
Change 9.2:191-218.
Nagy, N. 1997. Modeling
contact-induced language change. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: A Selection of Papers from NWAVE 25 4.1:399-418. [abstract]
1996
Nagy, N., C. Moisset, & G. Sankoff. 1996. On the acquisition of variable
phonology in L2. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics:
Papers from NWAVE 24 3.1:111-126. (PDF)
1995
Nagy, N. & D. Napoli. 1995. Italian
Codas in OT. ESCOL '95: 212-223.
Nagy, N. 1995. Double or nothing: Romance
alignment strategies. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in
Linguistics: Papers from the 19th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium 2.2:93-102. (Postscript file of paper.)
1994
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.
Oral presentations
Walker, J., N. Nagy & M. Hoffman. 2013. Two Sides of the Chinese Diaspora: English and Cantonese in Toronto, Multilingualism in the Chinese Diasporas Colloquium, 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.
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. 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. & 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.
Service and Professional Activities
SERVICE AT UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
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Student research supervised
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Member of the following departmental committees:
- Equipment committee (2008-2009)
- Departmental Ethics Review Committee member 2008-2009, Chair 2009-2012
- Blog committee, Chair (2009-2012)
SERVICE AT UNH (1996-2008)
Master's theses supervised at UNH
Undergraduate research supervised at UNH
OTHER
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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
SERVICE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY
- Member, scientific committee, Junior Researchers Conference: Negotiating Methodological challenges in linguistic research, Fribourg, February 2014.
- Methods in Dialectology Conference organizing committee member, 2010-2011
- Panel Organizer (with Hélène Blondeau): La variation sociolinguistique en situation de contact dans les Amériques. ACLA/CAAL 2010, Montreal.
- Reviewer for these journals:
- Book reviewer for these publishers:
Cambridge University Press, John Benjamins, Oxford University Press, Presses de l'Université Laval, Routledge, Wiley
- Juror
for these conferences: Bilingual Workshop on Theoretical Linguistics, Chicago Linguistic Society, Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, Methods in Dialectology, NWAVE, Northeast Linguistic Society, Penn Linguistics Colloquium, Change and Variation in Canada, New Zealand Language in Society
- Reviewer for these funding agencies: National Science Foundation, Social Science and Humanties Research Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche Société et culture Québec.
- Member, Linguistic Society of America 1990-present
- Negotiating methodological challenges in linguistic research, Fribourg, Switzerland, Scientific Committee member, 2014
- Methods in Dialectology 14, London, ON, Organizing committee member, 2011
- NWAVE 24 Philadelphia, organizer, editor, host, 1995
- Guest lecture coordinator, Linguistics
Program, Swarthmore College, 1994-1995
- Assistant organizer for NELS
25, 1994
- Editor of The Penn Review of Linguistics, 1992
- Organizing committee member for The Penn Linguistics Colloquium, 1992
- University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Laboratory Librarian, 1991-1993
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