Research & Projects
Research & Projects
Between Solidarity and Suspicion: Stereotyping of Ukrainian Refugees in Polish News Discourse
BIJU 2026 | Brussels, Belgium | 12/2026
Talk given at the Brussels Institute for Journalism Studies (BIJU) on “Stereotypes in Journalistic Language and Journalism Practice".
Between Solidarity and Suspicion: Representation of Ukrainian Refugees in Polish News Discourse
NWAV 54 | Montreal, CA | 10/2026
Project launch presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 54, University of Montreal.
Community-Based Sociolinguistics: Data Collection in School and Neighborhood Settings
LSA Summer Institute | Eugene, OR | 08/2025
Co-organized workshop for Nicole Holliday and Sabriya Fisher
Code-Switching and Final Consonant Cluster Reduction Among African American Philadelphia High School Students: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
Pomona College | Claremont, CA | 12/2025
Senior Capstone Research Presentation
Quantifying Features at Different Levels of Variation: The Language Practices of AAE-speaking High-Schoolers
American Dialect Society (ADS) | New York, NY | 01/2024
Co-Authors: Li-Fang Lai, Nicole Holliday
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Research and Internship Fall Symposium
Pomona College | Claremont, CA | 08/2023 , 08/2024
Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) 2023
Intonation and its Interfaces NSF REU 2024; Primary authors: Byron Ahn, Nanette Veilleux, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel & Alejna Brugos
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Bridging Methods to Study Sociolectal Variation
LSA Summer Institute | Amherst, MA | 08/2023
Primary presenters: Nicole Holliday, Sabriya Fisher, Li-Fang Lai
Quantifying features at different levels of variation: The language practices and experience of discrimination of AAE-speaking high-schoolers
Manuscript in preparation
Authors: Li-Fang Lai, Sylvan Jesien, Nicole Holliday
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Code-Switching and Final Consonant Cluster Reduction Among African American Philadelphia High School Students: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
12/2023
Senior Capstone Thesis Project, Pomona College