Paul M. De Decker

Ph.D Student
Department of Linguistics
New York University
dedecker AT nyu DOT edu


Research Interests
sociolinguistics, phonetics


Papers

De Decker, Paul. 2006. Migration: social mobility and phonetic drift. (PDF)
Selected papers from NWAV 34.Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics.

De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz. 2006. Are Tense [ae]s Really Tense? An Ultrasound Study. (PDF)
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics

De Decker, Paul. 2002. Hangin' & Retractin' : Adolescent social practice and sound change in an Ontario small town. (DOC)
Selected papers from NWAV 30. Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics. Vol. 8.3

De Decker, Paul & Sara Mackenzie. 2000. 'Slept through the ice': a further look at lax vowel lowering in Canadian English.
Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics Vol. 18: Sociolinguistic Dialectology issue.


Conference Presentations

De Decker, P. & Jennifer Nycz. 2006. A New Way of Analyzing Vowels: Comparing Formant Contours Using Smoothing Spline ANOVA
Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 35, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

De Decker, Paul. 2005. Urban Migration, Social Mobility and Phonetic Shift: A Longitudinal Study.
Presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 34, New York City, New York.

De Decker, Paul & Jennifer Nycz. 2005. What lies beneath? Studying variation through ultrasound.(handout)
Presented at The Twelfth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, Universite de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick.

Davidson, Lisa & Paul De Decker. 2005. Stabilization techniques for ultrasound imaging of speech articulations. (PDF)
Presented at The 149th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, Canada.

Nycz, Jennifer & Paul De Decker. 2005. Is 'ash'-tensing driven by acoustics or articulation: an ultrasound study.
Paper presented at The 29th Penn Linguistics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.

De Decker, Paul. 2005. The Role of Mutual Engagement in Sociophonetic Uniformity. (handout)
Invited speaker to the graduate student symposium on New Directions in the Study of Canadian English
at the Canadian English in the Global Context conference (in honour of Jack Chambers)

De Decker, Paul. 2003. Modeling Co-articulatory-Acoustic Relations of Canadian English (ae).
Poster presented at NWAV 32, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

De Decker, Paul. 2001. Hangin' & Retractin' : Adolescent social practice and sound change in an Ontario small town.
Presented at NWAV 30, Raleigh, North Carolina.

De Decker, Paul. 2000. An acoustic analysis of the vowel spaces of lax vowel lowerers.
Presented at NWAV 29, East Lansing, Michigan.

De Decker, Paul & Sara Mackenzie. 1999. 'Slept through the ice': a further look at lax vowel lowering in Canadian English.
Presented at NWAV 28, Toronto, Ontario.


M.A. Thesis

De Decker, Paul. 2002. Beyond the City Limits: the Canadian Vowel Shift in an Ontario small town. (PDF), (TOC)
(Advisor: James Walker, York University, Toronto)


Other Writing

The NotReals: disciples of a CanRock indie scene
co-authored with Brendan F.R. Edwards

Chep Whittaker is Dead: A Geddy and Gould Mystery
Book 1 available exclusively at Canzine 2006




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