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For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis?

Published in University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 2011

We looked at the effect of smartphones, personal computers, consumer recorders and YouTube on representations of the vowel space.

Recommended citation: De Decker, Paul and Nycz, Jennifer (2011). For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis?, University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 17 : Iss. 2 , Article 7. https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol17/iss2/7

An Acoustic and Articulatory Study of /l/ Allophony in Newfoundland English

Published in International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2015

Recommended citation: Mackenzie, S., De Decker, P., & Pierson, R. (2015). An acoustic and articulatory study of/l/ allophony in Newfoundland English. In Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, edited by the Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015. Glasgow: University of Glasgow. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0876.pdf

The Technology of Conducting Sociolinguistic Interviews

Published in , 2018

Recommended citation: De Decker, P. and Nycz, J. (2018). The Technology of Conducting Sociolinguistic Interviews. In Christine Mallinson, Becky Childs and Gerard Van Herk (Eds.), Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications. Second Edition. Routledge. (Revised from 2013 edition).

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Sociolinguistics II

Undergraduate/Graduate, Memorial University, Linguistics, 2021

This class provides a thorough grounding in variationist sociolinguistic principles and methodology underlying current approaches to language variation and change. Students will develop an empirical foundation for examining major issues related to language variation and change.

Sociolinguistics Online

Discussion/Reading Group, Memorial University, Linguistics, 2021

This semester I am hosting the Sociolinguistics Online reading group for a number of advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We meet every other week to talk about our own research interests and to discuss published articles relevant to these interests. This group is also open to the public.