Select Publications
Coming soon (by academic standards, anyway):
Fernandez-Mallat, Victor, and Jennifer Nycz (eds). 2024. Dialect Contact: Individual- and Community-level Perspectives. Georgetown University Press.
Fernandez Mallat, Victor, and Jennifer Nycz. 2024. A Multi-level Approach to Understanding the Dynamics of Dialect Contact. In Fernandez-Mallat, Victor and Jennifer Nycz (eds), Dialect Contact: Individual- and Community-level Perspectives. Georgetown University Press.
Available now:
De Jesus, Felipe Leandro, Sarah Rose Bellavance, and Jennifer Nycz. 2024. Claims and contests: On the epistemic negotiation of place identity. Language and Communication 95: 42-54.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2023. Linguistic stability and malleability in long-term dialect contact: The cot/caught contrast among mobile speakers [links to pdf]. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2023, Prague, August 2023.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2020. English Phonetics. In Aarts, Bas, April McMahon, and Lars Hinrichs (eds), The Handbook of English Linguistics, Second Edition. Wiley.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2019. Linguistic and Social Factors Favoring Acquisition of Contrast in a New Dialect. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, August 2019.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2019. Media and second dialect acquisition. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 39: 152-160.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2018. Stylistic variation among mobile speakers: Using old and new regional variables to construct complex place identity. Language Variation and Change 30(20): 175-202.
De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz. 2017. The technology of conducting sociolinguistic interviews. In Mallinson, Christine, Becky Childs & Gerard van Herk (eds.), Data Collection in Sociolinguistics: Methods and Applications (2nd Ed.) pg. 123-130.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2016. Awareness and acquisition of new dialect features. In Babel, Anna (ed.), Awareness and Control in Sociolinguistic Research. Cambridge University Press. 62-79.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2015. Second dialect acquisition: A sociophonetic perspective. Language and Linguistics Compass 9: 469-482.
Johnson, Daniel Ezra and Jennifer Nycz. 2015. Partial mergers and near-distinctions: Stylistic layering in dialect acquisition. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 21(2): Article 13.
Nycz, Jennifer & Lauren Hall-Lew. 2014. Best practices in measuring vowel merger. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4894063
Watt, Dominic, Carmen Llamas, Gerard J. Docherty, Damien Hall, & Jennifer Nycz. 2014. Language and identity on the Scottish/English border. In Watt, Dominic and Carmen Llamas (eds.), Language, Borders and Identity. Edinburgh University Press. 8–26.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2013. New contrast acquisition: Methodological issues and theoretical implications. English Language & Linguistics 17(2): 325-357.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2013. Changing words or changing rules? Second dialect acquisition and phonological representation. Journal of Pragmatics 52: 49–62. Click here for a video of me talking about this paper with the Memorial University Newfoundland Sociolinguistics Reading Group!
De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz. 2012. Are tense [æ]s really tense? The mapping between articulation and acoustics. Lingua 122:7. Corrected and color figures.
Nycz, Jennifer. 2011. Second Dialect Acquisition: Implications for Theories of Phonological Representation. Doctoral Dissertation, New York University.
De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz. 2011. For the Record: Which Digital Media Can be Used for Sociophonetic Analysis? University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 17:2, Article 7.
Docherty, Gerard J., Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Damien Hall & Jennifer Nycz. 2011. Variation in Voice Onset Time along the Scottish-English border. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, August 2011. 591–594.
Anttila, Arto, Vivienne Fong, Stefan Benus & Jennifer Nycz. 2008. Variation and opacity in Singapore English Consonant clusters. Phonology 25(2): 181–216.
[Proceedings papers superceded by later articles, earlier editions of book chapters, and other minor publications not listed here, though you can find them on my CV, linked above]