Kara Becker Department of Linguistics New York University 726 Broadway, 7th Floor New York, NY 10003 karabecker at nyu dot edu Fourth Year PhD student

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Fall 2007. Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Teaching Assistant), New York University
Summer 2007. Sociolinguistic Issues in the Urban Classroom, Long Island University
Spring 2007. Sociolinguistics, Staten Island University
Spring 2007. Cognition (Teaching Assistant), New York University
Fall 2006. The Language of America's Ethnic Minorities (Teaching Assistant), New York University
Summer 2006. Language (with Andrea Cattaneo), New York University
Spring 2006. Linguistic Perspectives in the Social Sciences (Teaching Assistant), New York University

Recent Work

/r/, Place and Identity in New York City's Lower East Side. Paper presented at CLASP (Conference on Language and Social Practice), Boulder Colorado, October 2007.

Variation and Optimality Theory: Interdental Fricatives in AAE. Qualifying Paper, passed October 2006. Download the PDF

The Low Back Vowel Distinction in New York City English with Jocelyn Doxsey, Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, and Amy Wong. Poster presented at NWAV 34, New York University, October 21, 2005. Download the poster .

The Individual Low Front Vowel Systems of New York City English Speakers. Paper presented at the CUNY/SUNY/NYU Graduate Student Conference, March 2006.

Watch Ali G interview Noam Chomsky

do animals use language? you decide. read this transcript of Koko the gorilla in the first ever AOL interspecies chat

James Crawford's Language Policy Website

Hud ad for Linguistic Profiling

Ethnologue Languages of the World (+/- 7,000)

listen to some american english dialects: New York City ; California ; Southern ; African American English ; Northern Cities Shift ; Standard American ; or browse the The Speech Accent Archive from George Mason University or the Audio Archive or IDEA

Fry and Laurie on Language