Faculty Profile

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 Title: The Evolution of AAVE in a Rural Texas Coomunity: An Ethnolinguistic Study
MA, Texas A&M University, 1984. 
Major: Modern Languages
Degree Specialization: Spanish
BA, Texas A&M University, 1977. 
Major: Modern Languages
Degree Specialization: Spanish





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2024 
LING 5330.600, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2024 
LING 3010.001, African American English, Fall 2023 Syllabus
LING 3010.002, African American English, Fall 2023 Syllabus
LING 3070.001, Introduction to Linguistics, Fall 2023 Syllabus


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    LING 3080.001, Language and Society, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.600, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2023  SPOT
                    

                    LING 3010.001, African American English, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 3010.002, African American English, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 3080.001, Language and Society, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2022  SPOT
                    

                    LING 4951.001, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Fall 2021  SPOT
                    

                    LING 4950.001, Senior Capstone Field Experience, Fall 2021  SPOT
                    

                    LING 3070.801, Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 6110.001, Linguistic Variation, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5040.801, Principles of Linguistics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.600, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2021 
                    

                    LING 4951.001, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 4950.001, Senior Capstone Field Experience, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 3040.001, The Politics of Language, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 3070.801, Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5040.801, Principles of Linguistics, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5040.900, Principles of Linguistics, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5990.001, Professional Development for Linguists, Spring 2020 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 4900.723, Special Problems, Spring 2020 
                    

                    LING 5580.001, Language and Gender, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5900.734, Special Problems, Fall 2019 
                    

                    LING 3040.001, The Politics of Language, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 6110.001, Linguistic Variation, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5990.001, Professional Development for Linguists, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2019 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 2070.001, Language and Discrimination, Fall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Fall 2017 
                    

                    LING 5910.703, Special Problems, Fall 2017 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Spring 2017 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2017  SPOT
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2017 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Fall 2016 
                    

                    LING 5580.001, Language and Gender, Spring 2016  SPOT
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Spring 2016 
                    

                    LING 5070.001, Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL., Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    LING 5080.001, Teaching English as a Second Language, Fall 2015  SPOT
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2015 
                    

                    LING 5070.001, Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL., Fall 2014 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5920.703, Research Problems in Lieu of Thesis (Original Scholarly Papers, Fall 2014 
                    

                    LING 4951.703, Honors College Capstone Thesis, Spring 2014 
                    

                    LING 3070.001, Introduction to Linguistics, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5580.001, Language and Gender, Spring 2014 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2014 
                    

                    LING 4020.001, Structure of Modern English, Spring 2014 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 3080.001, Language and Society, Fall 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W1 2013 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2013 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Spring 2013 
                    

                    LING 5040.801, Principles of Linguistics, Spring 2013 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2013 
                    

                    LING 4020.001, Structure of Modern English, Spring 2013 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5070.001, Bibliography and Methods of Research in Linguistics/ESL., Fall 2012 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Fall 2012 
                    

                    LING 4950.703, Senior Capstone Field Experience, Fall 2012 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Summer 5W2 2012 
                    

                    LING 5580.001, Language and Gender, Spring 2012 
                    

                    LING 4900.705, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    LING 5910.703, Special Problems, Spring 2012 
                    

                    LING 4080.001, Teaching English as a Second Language, Spring 2012 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5040.001, Principles of Linguistics, Fall 2011 
                    

                    LING 5080.001, Teaching English as a Second Language, Fall 2011 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2011 
                    

                    LING 4030.001, Acquisition of English as a Second Language, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 3060.002, Principles of Language Study, Spring 2011 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2011 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2010 Syllabus
                    

                    LING 5580.001, Language and Gender, Fall 2010 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2009 
                    

                    LING 3060.003, Principles of Language Study, Fall 2009 
                    

                    LING 5340.001, Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language, Spring 2009 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2009 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2008 
                    

                    LING 3060.010, Principles of Language Study, Fall 2008 
                    

                    LING 5340.080, Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language, Summer 5W1 2008 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2008 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2008 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2007 
                    

                    LING 5340.080, Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language, Fall 2007 
                    

                    LING 5080.001, Teaching English as a Second Language, Fall 2007 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2007 
                    

                    LING 4040.001, General Linguistics, Spring 2007 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Spring 2007 
                    

                    LING 5040.001, Principles of Linguistics, Spring 2007 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Spring 2007 
                    

                    LING 5320.001, Studies in Applied Linguistics, Spring 2007 
                    

                    LING 4010.001, English Language in America, Fall 2006 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Fall 2006 
                    

                    LING 5090.001, Pedagogical English Grammar, Fall 2006 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2006 
                    

                    LING 5910.703, Special Problems, Fall 2006 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Summer 5W2 2006 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2006 
                    

                    LING 3060.006, Principles of Language Study, Fall 2005 
                    

                    LING 3060.008, Principles of Language Study, Fall 2005 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Spring 2005 
                    

                    LING 5340.001, Practicum in Teaching English as a Second Language, Spring 2005 
                    

                    LING 5330.001, Sociolinguistics, Spring 2005 
                    

                    LING 4040.002, General Linguistics, Fall 2004 
                    

                    LING 5380.001, Linguistic Field Methods, Fall 2004 
                    

                    LING 5950.703, Master's Thesis, Fall 2004 
                    

                    LING 5040.002, Principles of Linguistics, Fall 2004 
                    

                    LING 5900.703, Special Problems, Fall 2004 

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
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., Bailey, G.  (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. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

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



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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