Cara Shousterman

Status: Fourth-year PhD student.

Interests:

Sociolinguistics, urban dialectology, sound change, African American English, New York City English.

Advisors: Renée Blake and Maria Gouskova.

Teaching:

· Instructor for Language, Summer 2008.

· Teaching Assistant, African American English II: Language and Education, Spring 2009, Renée Blake.

· Teaching Assistant, African American English I: Language and Culture, Fall 2008, Renée Blake.

· Teaching Assistant, Sex, Gender and Language, Spring 2008, taught by Louise Vasvari.

· Teaching Assistant, Sound and Language, Fall 2007, taught by Lisa Davidson.

· Teaching Assistant, Bilingualism, Spring 2007, taught by Zvjezdana Vrzic.

· Teaching Assistant, Language and Society, Fall 2006, taught by John Singler.

Academic Service:

· Sociolinguistics lab manager, 2006-Present.

· LANYU secretary, 2006-2007

Conference Presentations:

Shousterman, Cara. 2009. Diachrony and AAE: Sound change outside of the mainstream. Paper presented at the American Dialect Society (ADS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. [slides]

Blake, Renée, Sonya Fix, and Cara Shousterman. 2009. Vowel centralization before /r/ in two AAE dialects: A case of regional variation. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. [slides]

Shousterman, Cara. 2008. AAE in St. Louis: What’s going on over “thurr”. Paper presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY.

Shousterman, Cara. 2008. Nasal harmony asymmetry in Haitian Creole. Paper presented at the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto (MOT) Phonology Workshop, Montreal, QC. [slides]

Blake, Renée, Sonya Fix, Simanique Moody, and Cara Shousterman. 2006. Something in the “urr”: Vowel centralization before /r/ in two AAE dialects. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 35, Columbus, OH. [handout]

Honors:

· LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship 2007.

· New York University McCracken Fellowship 2005-2010.

Other Downloads:

Mortlockese Word List (Excel file)

Note: Written with the IPA font Doulos SIL. Click here to get it.

Instructions for using the Word List (PDF)