Patricia Cukor-Avila

Previous Scheduled Teaching

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).