Alexandra
D’Arcy’s quick links
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publications research UVic
sociolinguistics research lab UVic linguistics
teaching and supervision at UVic
Fall 2015
LING495 Language Variation and Change
LING590 Directed Study: Variation Theory
Spring 2016
Not teaching this term.
Fall 2017
LING495 Language Variation and Change
Spring 2018
LING690 Advanced Studies in Code-Switching
Fall 2018
LING495 Language Variation and Change
Courses I also teach:
LING395 Sociolinguistics (visit us on Facebook)
LING420 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
LING449 Directed Study
LING499 Honours Thesis
LING509 Sociolinguistics Seminar (selected topics)
LING527 Topics in Historical and Comparative Linguistics
LING590 Directed Study
LING592 Labovian Variationist Sociolinguistics
LING690 Directed Study
Graduate and undergraduate
supervision
I am keen to supervise research in the following areas:
·
variationist
sociolinguistics
·
language variation and
change
·
historical
sociolinguistics
·
grammaticalization
Have a topic you think is sociolinguistic but not sure? Come see me!
Recent student and post-doc news &
congratulations
Jan. 2015: Sky Onosson gave a talk at the annual
meeting of the American Dialect
Society with co-authors Becky Roeder and Alex D’Arcy
Mar. 2015: Alexah Konnelly has been accepted to
the MA program in Linguistics
at the University of Toronto
Mar. 2015: Nicole Edgar had her poster “Grammaticalization
or simple reduction” accepted for presentation at the 2015 CLA meeting
April 2015: Nicole Edgar has just been awarded a
prestigious SSHRC MA
Scholarship
April 2015: Callie Hill has successfully defended
her MEd Special Project in Indigenous language revitalization
June 2015: Callie Hill (MEd), Matthew Fitzsimmons (BA Hons) and Alexah Konnelly (BA Hons) graduated
July 2015: Nicole Edgar’s paper on I DON'T KNOW
and grammaticalization was accepted to La Science du Mot
July 2015: Sky Onosson and Nicole Edgar both had papers accepted for presentation at NWAV 44 in Toronto
July 2015: Alexah Konnelly’s JCURA research on
hashtag activism on Twitter was just accepted for publication in The Arbutus Review
July 2015: Pat Hart Blundon has been named the
recipient of the Ord and Linda Anderson Interdisciplinary Graduate Scholarship
from UVic
Sept. 2015: Derek Denis joins the Sociolinguistics
Research Lab as a SSHRC
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sept. 2015: Nicole Edgar was awarded the
President’s Research Scholarship
Sept. 2015: Eva Smidt, from the University of
Groningen, joined the Sociolinguistics
Research Lab as a Visiting Research Student
Oct. 2015: Sky Onosson’s paper was accepted for
presentation at the annual meeting of the American Dialect Society, to be held in
DC in January 2016
Oct. 2015: Nicole Edgar, Sky Onosson and SSHRC post-doc Derek
Denis all presented papers at NWAV 44
Nov. 2015: Alexah Konnelly’s JCURA research was
published in The Arbutus Review
Nov. 2015: Sky Onosson was awarded a travel grant
to attend the 2016 annual meeting of the American Dialect Society
Nov. 2015: Pat Hart Blundon has been accepted to
give a full paper at the Speech-Language & Audiology Canada
Conference in April 2016
Dec. 2015: Sky Onosson was awarded a Joseph-Armand
Bombardier SSHRC
Doctoral Scholarship
Feb. 2016: Ildara Enríquez García’s paper was
accepted to the Cascadia Workshop
on Sociolinguistics
Mar. 2016: Nicole Edgar was accepted to the PhD
program at the York University
(starting Sept 2016) and awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship
April 2016: Ayden Loughlin was awarded a Graduate
Entrance Scholarship to the UVic Linguistics
MA program, starting September 2016
April 2016: Ildara Enríquez García and Derek Denis gave papers at the Cascadia Workshop in Sociolinguistics
Sept. 2016: Nicole Edgar published a paper in the Working Papers of the Linguistics Circle
(Vol. 26)
Sept. 2016: Pat Hart Blundon was awarded a SSHRC
Doctoral Fellowship
Sept. 2016: Sky Onosson was awarded the President’s
Research Scholarship and the Robert W. Ford Graduate Scholarship
Sept. 2016: Suzanne Robillard, from the University
of Ottawa, joined the Sociolinguistics
Research Lab as a Visiting Research Student
Oct. 2016: Ildara Enríquez García was awarded the
Lucie D’Aigle Award from UVic Linguistics
Oct. 2016: Ildara Enríquez García was awarded a
travel grant from the American Dialect
Society to attend the 2017 meeting
Nov. 2016: Nicole Edgar (MA) and Kahtehrón:ni Stacey (MEd) graduated
Nov. 2016: Alum
Nicole Edgar and PhD student Sky Onosson presented posters at NWAV 45; Derek Denis presented two papers
Nov. 2016: Ildara Enríquez García successfully
defended her proposal for her MA thesis
Dec. 2016: Sky Onosson successfully defended his
proposal for his PhD dissertation
Dec. 2016: Derek Denis was awarded the Audrey Duckert Memorial
Award from the American Dialect
Society
Dec. 2016: Pat Hart Blundon published a paper on non-standard dialect
and educational achievement in the Canadian Journal of
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Jan. 2017: Erika Larson, from Northeastern
University, joined the Sociolinguistics
Research Lab as an International Visiting Research Student
Jan. 2017: Derek Denis and Ildara Enríquez García gave papers at the American Dialect Society in Austin, Texas
Jan. 2017: Visiting
Research Student Suzanne Robillard
was interviewed on the CBC
about Victoria French
Jan. 2017: SSHRC
Post-Doc Derek Denis was hired as an
Assistant Professor (TT) in Linguistics at the University of
Toronto Mississauga, starting summer 2017!
Mar. 2017: Sky Onosson had a poster accepted to
the Chicago Linguistics
Society Workshop on Dynamic Modeling in Phonetics and Phonology
Mar. 2017: Ildara Enríquez García was accepted to the
PhD Program in Linguistics at UVic (starting Sept 2017) and awarded a Graduate
Entrance Award
April 2017: Kaleigh Woolford was accepted to the MA
program at Newcastle University
June 2017: Tomoharu Hirota joined the SLRL as a
Visiting Research Student, under the Western Deans Agreement
summer 2017: We
said good-bye to Derek Denis, Tomo Hirota, Erika Larson, Jasmine El
Gazzar and Kaleigh Woolford.
We’ll miss you!
July 2017: Derek Denis started his tenure-track
job as Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Studies at
the University of Toronto Mississauga!
Aug. 2017: Ildara Enríquez García successfully
defended her MA thesis
Sept. 2017: Ildara Enríquez García and Ayden Loughlin were both accepted to
present at the American Dialect
Society in January 2018
Sept. 2017: Marjolein Merx, from the University of
Groningen, joined the Sociolinguistics
Research Lab as a Visiting Research Student
Sept. 2017: René O’Reilly and Sachi deTreaux were each awarded a prestigious Jamie Cassels
Undergraduate Research Award (JCURA)
Sept. 2017: Ildara Enríquez García started her PhD
and Marisa Brook joined the Sociolinguistics Research Lab as a
Research Associate
Fall 2017: Ildara Enríquez García was awarded the
UVic Alumni Association Graduate Award, the UVic Graduate Entrance Award, and
travel awards to both NWAV 46 and ADS 2018
Oct. 2017: Pat Hart Blundon gave an invited
workshop to the Alberta College of Speech-Language
Pathologists and Audiologists
Nov. 2017: Derek Denis, Marisa Brook, Ildara
Enríquez García and Erika Larson
all gave talks at NWAV 46 at the University of
Wisconsin Madison
Nov. 2017: Ildara Enríquez García’s research was
spotlighted in The Ring
before she graduated with her MA
Nov. 2017: Sky Onosson had a poster accepted to Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, with
collaborator Becky Roeder (UNC Charlotte)
Nov. 2017: Pat
Hart Blundon gave a talk at the annual meeting of the American Speech-Language Hearing Association
Dec. 2017: Shaun Windels completed his BA Honours
degree
Jan. 2018: Sydney Torok, Nicole Reck, Sophia Chan
and Allyson Ugalde joined the Sociolinguistics Research Lab as
RAs on the Kids Talk project
Jan. 2018: Ildara Enríquez García and Ayden Loughlin presented at the annual
meeting of the American Dialect
Society, and Marisa Brook
presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Society
of America
April 2018: Ildara Enríquez García and Marisa Brook are presenting at the 2018
meeting of the Cascadia Workshop
in Sociolinguistics
April 2018: Sky Onosson will defend his doctoral
dissertation later this month. Congratulations Sky!
Projects I’ve had a supervisory role with include:
University
of Victoria
·
Patricia Hart Blundon,
PhD in progress (Interdisciplinary): English as a second dialect among First
Nations students in a remote northern British Columbia community
(co-supervisor, with D. McGhie-Richmond)
·
Kyra Fortier, MA in
progress: Dialectal
variation in Gitksan vowel inventories (committee member)
·
Laura
Grant, MA in progress: Mapping emerging learner language in adult learners of Nuwä Abigip, a critically-endangered
Indigenous Language (supervisor)
·
Ayden
Loughlin, MA in progress: Who is they?
(supervisor)
·
Sky Onosson
(2018), PhD: An acoustic study of Canadian Raising in three dialects of North
American English (co-supervisor, with S. Bird)
·
Matthew Richards
(2018), MA: Prosodic structure in the Foxtrot (committee member)
·
Ildara Enríquez
García (2017), MA: Clitic variation among Galician neofalantes (supervisor)
·
Hajime Kataoka (2017),
MA: Enhancing social media-based participation in L2 communities of practice
(co-supervisor, with C. Poulton)
·
Shaun Windels (2017),
BA honours: All’s well and good: Social correlates of adjectival and adverbial
good/well alternation (supervisor)
·
Kahtehrón:ni Stacey
(2016), MEd: Tho Ientsitewate’nikonhraié:ra’te Tsi Nonkwá:ti ne Á:se
Tahatikonhsontón:tie—We will turn our minds there once again, to the faces yet
to come. Second language speakers and language revitalization in Kahnawà:ke
(co-supervisor, with P. Jacobs)
·
Nicole Edgar
(2016), MA: The social indexicality of creaky voice in the speech of young
women (supervisor)
·
Rory Cleator (2016), BA
honours: Drag queens and persona building (co-supervisor, with S. Bird)
·
Callie Hill (2015), MEd:
Kanyen’kehá:ka: Awakening Community Consciousness (co-supervisor, with E.
Czaykowska-Higgins)
·
Matthew Fitzsimmons
(2015), BA honours: Two dimensions of prosodic change in Conamara Irish
(co-supervisor, with S. Bird)
·
Lex Konnelly
(2015), BA honours/JCURA: #Activism: Identity, Affiliation, and Political
Discourse-Making on Twitter (supervisor)
·
Nicole Edgar
(2014), BA honours/JCURA: Mock manly speech: Polyphonic resources in the
construction of hegemonic masculine discourse (supervisor)
·
Nicole Krenn (2013),
BSc honours: L2 speakers’ accommodation of a second dialect in their L2
(co-supervisor, with S. Bird)
·
Brittney O’Neill (2013), BA
honours: The ASCII affect: A comparison of emoticons and facial expressions in
affective priming (co-supervisor, with S. Bird)
·
Taylor Marie Young (2011), MA: If
the walls could talk: A sociolinguistic inquiry (supervisor)
·
Suzanne Robillard
(2011), BA honours: Community without correctness: A sociolinguistic analysis
of British Columbian French (supervisor)
·
Sara Van Dongen (2011),
BA honours: Etymological prestige and the perception of personality
(supervisor)
University
of Canterbury
·
Katie Drager (2009), PhD: A sociophonetic
ethnography of Selwyn Girls’ High (associate supervisor)
·
Ilka Ludwig (2007), MA:
Identification of New Zealand English and Australian English based on
stereotypical accent markers (associate supervisor)
·
Anita Szakay (2007), MA:
Identification of Māori English using suprasegmental cues: A study based on
speech resynthesis (associate supervisor). Published (2008) as: Ethnic Dialect Identification in
New Zealand: The Role of Prosodic Cues. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag.
·
Rosa-Jane Whitcombe
(2008), Honours extended essay: Examination of the English spoken within the
New Zealand-born Chinese community (supervisor)