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Patricia Cukor-Avila

Title: Professor

Department: Linguistics

College: College of Information

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, 1995
    Major: Linguistics
    Dissertation: The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Coomunity: An Ethnolinguistic Study
  • MA, Texas A&M University, 1984
    Major: Modern Languages
    Specialization: Spanish
  • BA, Texas A&M University, 1977
    Major: Modern Languages
    Specialization: Spanish

Current Scheduled Teaching

LING 3080.001Language and SocietySpring 2025
LING 3080.002Language and SocietySpring 2025
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2025
LING 4010.001Language VariationFall 2024 Syllabus
LING 5090.401Pedagogical English GrammarFall 2024
LING 4020.401Structure of Modern EnglishFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2024 SPOT
LING 5330.600SociolinguisticsSpring 2024 SPOT
LING 5900.001Special ProblemsSpring 2024
LING 3010.001African American EnglishFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3010.002African American EnglishFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3070.001Introduction to LinguisticsFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3080.001Language and SocietySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2023 SPOT
LING 5330.600SociolinguisticsSpring 2023 SPOT
LING 3010.001African American EnglishFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3010.002African American EnglishFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3080.001Language and SocietySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2022 SPOT
LING 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2021 SPOT
LING 4950.001Senior Capstone Field ExperienceFall 2021 SPOT
LING 3070.801Introduction to LinguisticsSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
LING 6110.001Linguistic VariationSpring 2021 SPOT
LING 5040.801Principles of LinguisticsSpring 2021 SPOT
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2021 SPOT
LING 5330.600SociolinguisticsSpring 2021 SPOT
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2021
LING 4951.001Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
LING 4950.001Senior Capstone Field ExperienceFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3040.001The Politics of LanguageFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
LING 3070.801Introduction to LinguisticsSpring 2020 Syllabus
LING 5040.801Principles of LinguisticsSpring 2020
LING 5040.900Principles of LinguisticsSpring 2020
LING 5990.001Professional Development for LinguistsSpring 2020
LING 4900.723Special ProblemsSpring 2020
LING 5580.001Language and GenderFall 2019 SPOT
LING 5900.734Special ProblemsFall 2019
LING 3040.001The Politics of LanguageFall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
LING 6110.001Linguistic VariationSpring 2019 SPOT
LING 5990.001Professional Development for LinguistsSpring 2019 SPOT
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2019 SPOT
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
LING 2070.001Language and DiscriminationFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2017
LING 5910.703Special ProblemsFall 2017
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2017
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2017 SPOT
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2017
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2016
LING 5580.001Language and GenderSpring 2016 SPOT
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2016
LING 5070.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL.Fall 2015 SPOT
LING 5080.001Teaching English as a Second LanguageFall 2015 SPOT
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2015
LING 5070.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL.Fall 2014
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2014 Syllabus
LING 5920.703Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly PapersFall 2014
LING 4951.703Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2014
LING 3070.001Introduction to LinguisticsSpring 2014 Syllabus
LING 5580.001Language and GenderSpring 2014
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2014
LING 4020.001Structure of Modern EnglishSpring 2014 Syllabus
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2013 Syllabus
LING 3080.001Language and SocietyFall 2013 Syllabus
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2013
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2013
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2013
LING 5040.801Principles of LinguisticsSpring 2013
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2013
LING 4020.001Structure of Modern EnglishSpring 2013 Syllabus
LING 5070.001Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL.Fall 2012
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2012 Syllabus
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2012
LING 4950.703Senior Capstone Field ExperienceFall 2012
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2012
LING 5580.001Language and GenderSpring 2012
LING 4900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2012
LING 5910.703Special ProblemsSpring 2012
LING 4080.001Teaching English as a Second LanguageSpring 2012 Syllabus
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2011 Syllabus
LING 5040.001Principles of LinguisticsFall 2011
LING 5080.001Teaching English as a Second LanguageFall 2011
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2011
LING 4030.001Acquisition of English as a Second LanguageSpring 2011 Syllabus
LING 3060.002Principles of Language StudySpring 2011 Syllabus
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2011
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2010 Syllabus
LING 5580.001Language and GenderFall 2010
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2009
LING 3060.003Principles of Language StudyFall 2009
LING 5340.001Practicum in Teaching English as a Second LanguageSpring 2009
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2009
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2008
LING 3060.010Principles of Language StudyFall 2008
LING 5340.080Practicum in Teaching English as a Second LanguageSummer 5W1 2008
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2008
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2008
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2007
LING 5340.080Practicum in Teaching English as a Second LanguageFall 2007
LING 5080.001Teaching English as a Second LanguageFall 2007
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2007
LING 4040.001General LinguisticsSpring 2007
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2007
LING 5040.001Principles of LinguisticsSpring 2007
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2007
LING 5320.001Studies in Applied LinguisticsSpring 2007
LING 4010.001English Language in AmericaFall 2006
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2006
LING 5090.001Pedagogical English GrammarFall 2006
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsFall 2006
LING 5910.703Special ProblemsFall 2006
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSummer 5W2 2006
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2006
LING 3060.006Principles of Language StudyFall 2005
LING 3060.008Principles of Language StudyFall 2005
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisSpring 2005
LING 5340.001Practicum in Teaching English as a Second LanguageSpring 2005
LING 5330.001SociolinguisticsSpring 2005
LING 4040.002General LinguisticsFall 2004
LING 5380.001Linguistic Field MethodsFall 2004
LING 5950.703Master's ThesisFall 2004
LING 5040.002Principles of LinguisticsFall 2004
LING 5900.703Special ProblemsFall 2004

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Carey, K., Cukor-Avila, P. (1996). By me bein' pregnant I would stay sick all the time: Causal by and from in African American Vernacular English. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society ed. by Jan Johnson, Matthew L. Juge, and Jeri L. Moxley. 46-57. Berkeley, University of California, Department of Linguistics.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (1995). Grammaticalization in AAVE. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society, ed. by Jocelyn Ahlers, Leela Bilmes, Joshua S. Guenter, Barbara A. Kaiser, and Ju Namkung. 401-413. Berkeley, University of California, Department of Linguistics.
  • Hadaway, N.L., Cukor-Avila, P. (1986). Composing in Two Languages: A Bilingual Child's Response. Proceedings of the Western Social Science Meeting of the National Social Science Association. 1 41-62.
  • Book

  • Bailey, G., Maynor, N., Cukor-Avila, P. (1991). The Emergence of Black English: Texts and Commentary. Amsterdam, John Benjamins.
  • Book Chapter

  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2018). A variationist approach to studies of language regard. Language Variation and Change: Regard and Contact. 30. Cambridge University Press.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (2017). The effect of small Ns and gaps in contact on panel survey data. Panel Studies of Variation and Change. 35. Routledge.
  • Jeon, L., Cukor-Avila, P. (2016). Urbanicity and language variation and change: Mapping dialect perceptions in and of Seoul. Cityscapes and Perceptual Dialectology: Global Perspectives on Non-linugists' Knowledge of the Dialect Landscape, ed. by Jennifer Cramer and Chris Montgomery. Mouton. 97-116.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. and G. Bailey. (2015). Rural Texas African American English. The Oxford Handbook of African American Language. 181-200.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (2013). Real and apparent time. Handbook of Language Variation and Change 2nd ed., ed. by Jack Chambers and Natalie Shilling. 240-262. Malden, Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2003). The complex grammatical history of African American and White vernaculars in the South. English in the Southern United States, ed. by Stephen Nagle and Sara Sanders. 85-102. Cambridge, CUP.
  • Book Review

  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2001). Review of John McWhorter "Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America. 29 370-373. Journal of English Linguistics.
  • Journal Article

  • Cukor-Avila, P., Balcazar, A. (2019). Exploring Grammatical Variation in the Corpus of Regional African American Language. American Speech. Duke University Press.
  • Lisa, J., Cukor-Avila, P. (2015). 'One country, one language?': Mapping perceptions of dialects in South Korea. Dialectologia. 14
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2012). Some structural consequences of diffusion. Language in Society. 41 615-640.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Jeon, C., Rector, P.C., Tiwari, C., Shelton, Z. (2012). Texas - It's like a whole nuther country: Mapping Texans' perceptions of dialect variation in the Lone Star state. Other. 10-19.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (2011). The interaction of transmission and diffusion in the spread of linguistic forms. 17.2 41-49. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2005). Researching naturally occurring speech. Other. 556-563. Oxford, Elsevier Limited.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2002). 'She say," "she go," "she be like": Verbs of quotation over time in African American Vernacular English. American Speech. 77 3-31.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2001). Co-existing grammars: The relationship between the evolution of African American Vernacular English and White Vernacular English in the South. Other. 93-127. Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (2001). The effects of the race of the interviewer on sociolinguistic fieldwork. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 5 (2) 254-270.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (2000). Revisiting the observer's paradox. American Speech. 253-254.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (1999). Stativity and copula absence in AAVE: Grammatical constraints at the sub-categorical level. The Journal of English Linguistics. 27 (4) 341-355.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (1997). An Ethnolinguistic Approach to the Study of Rural Southern AAVE. 447-462. University of Alabama Press.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (1997). Change and Stability in the use of Verbals over time in AAVE. 295-306. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (1996). The Spread of Urban AAVE: A Case Study. 469-485. Stanford, CSLI Publications.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Bailey, G. (1995). An Approach to Sociolinguistic Fieldwork: A Site Study of Rural AAVE in a Texas Community. English World-Wide. 16 (2) 159-193.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (1989). Determining Change in Progress vs. Stable Variation in Two Studies of Black English Vernacular. The SECOL Review. 8 (2) 92-124.
  • Bailey, G., Maynor, N., Cukor-Avila, P. (1989). Variation in Subject-Verb Concord in Early Modern English. Language Variation and Change. 1 285-300.
  • Cukor-Avila, P. (1988). The Effect of Accent on Speech and Personality Judgments. Other. 3 (2) 1-20.
  • Hadaway, N.L., Cukor-Avila, P. (1987). Dual Language Input, Dual Language Output: Writing in an Elementary Bilingual Program. Other. 3 (1) 46-63.
  • Hadaway, N.L., Cukor-Avila, P. (1986). Composing in Two Languages: A Bilingual Child's Response. San Antonio, Texas, Western Social Science Meeting of the National Social Science Association.
  • Monograph

  • Bailey, G., Cukor-Avila, P., Salinas, J. (2022). Inheritance and Innovation in the Evolution of Rural African American English. Cambridge University Press.
  • Popular Press Article

  • Cukor-Avila, P., Chelliah, S. (2004). WebCT course: LING 4040/5040.
  • Cukor-Avila, P., Chelliah, S. (2003). WebCT course: LING 3060.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Cukor-Avila, P., "College of Information Research Seed Grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2018 - 2019).
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