Naomi Nagy

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Naomi Nagy is involved.

Journal

Asia-Pacific Language Variation

Edited by Maya Ravindranath Abtahian and Rebecca Lurie Starr

ISSN 2215-1354 | E‑ISSN 2215‑1362

Title

Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff

Edited by Miriam Meyerhoff and Naomi Nagy

This volume offers a synthetic approach to language variation and language ideologies in multilingual communities. Although the vast majority of the world’s speech communities are multilingual, much of sociolinguistics ignores this internal diversity. This volume fills this gap, investigating… read more

[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 24] 2008. ix, 365 pp.

Articles (10) | Order by:

Nagy, Naomi 2025 Insights from the Heritage Language Variation and Change in Toronto Project (HLVC) Multilingualism and Language Contact in Asia-Pacific, Satyanath, Shobha (ed.), pp. 21–30 | Commentary

Di Salvo, Margherita and Naomi Nagy 2022 Chapter 12. Differential object marking in heritage and homeland Italian Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 311–336 | Chapter

We examine variable patterns of use of differential object marking (DOM) in conversational Italian recorded in Toronto, Canada, and Calabria, Italy. An exhaustive sample of 366 direct objects, produced by Homeland and three generations of Heritage speakers, shows retention of the DOM system.… read more

Nagy, Naomi and Samuel Lo 2019 Classifier use in Heritage and Hong Kong Cantonese Regional Chinese in Contact, Walker, James A. (ed.), pp. 84–108 | Article

Heritage language speakers have frequently been reported to have language skills weaker than homeland (monolingual) speakers. For example, Wei and Lee (2001, p. 359), a study of British-born Chinese-English bilingual children’s morphosyntactic patterns (including classifier use), report… read more

Nagy, Naomi 2017 The relevance of first language attrition to sociolinguistics, and vice versa Epistemological issue with keynote article “The relevance of first language attrition to theories of bilingual development” by Monika S. Schmid and Barbara Köpke, pp. 744–749 | Commentary

Nagy, Naomi and Alexei Kochetov 2013 Voice onset time across the generations: A cross-linguistic study of contact-induced change Multilingualism and Language Diversity in Urban Areas: Acquisition, identities, space, education, Siemund, Peter, Ingrid Gogolin, Monika Edith Schulz and Julia Davydova (eds.), pp. 19–38 | Article

We investigate Voice Onset Time (VOT) of voiceless stops in conversational speech in a transitional bilingual context. We examine the speech of three generations of bilinguals whose Heritage Language (HL) is one of three European languages (Italian, Russian, or Ukrainian) and who also speak English. read more

Nagy, Naomi 2009 17. The challenges of less commonly studied languages: Writing a sociogrammar of Faetar Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages, Stanford, James N. and Dennis R. Preston (eds.), pp. 397–417 | Article

The study of minority languages highlights the need for variationist approaches to grammars. This article addresses some conflicts that arise when we combine the enterprises of writing a descriptive grammar and constructing a sociolinguistic description of a language. Conflicts between conciseness… read more

Blondeau, Hélène and Naomi Nagy 2008 Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 273–313 | Article

We investigate the variable presence of overt complementizers in the bilingual repertoire of young Anglophone Montrealers, examining approximately 1,600 sentences in spoken French and English. The effects of linguistic constraints are compared between their two languages, and also to recent… read more

Nagy, Naomi and Miriam Meyerhoff 2008 Introduction: Social lives in language Social Lives in Language – Sociolinguistics and multilingual speech communities: Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff, Meyerhoff, Miriam and Naomi Nagy (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

Nagy, Naomi 2000 Stress and Schwa in Faetar Phonological Theory and the Dialects of Italy, Repetti, Lori (ed.), pp. 238–254 | Article

Nagy, Naomi 1994 Language Contact: Italian (?) geminates in Faetar Sound Change, Dominicy, Marc and Didier Demolin (eds.), pp. 111–128 | Article

Abstract. Faetar, an isolated dialect of Francoprovençal spoken in one village in southern Italy, shows clear evidence of Italian influence due to extended contact. One indication that Italian has influenced this dialect is the presence of geminates, as Gallic Francoprovençal had lost all length… read more