Laurel MacKenzie

Laurel MacKenzie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Faculty of Arts and Science. She specializes in variationist sociolinguistics, dialectology, and language change, with a focus on English and French varieties. Her work integrates quantitative analysis of speech data to explore intra-speaker variation and language evolution. She co-directs the NYU Sociolinguistics Lab and leads the NSF-funded NYC Individual Differences Corpus project, alongside the Our Dialects initiative, an online atlas of British English dialects.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania (2012)
• BA in Linguistics and French, University of California, Berkeley (2006)

Research Interests:

• Morphological and syntactic variation
• Regional dialects of English and French
• Linguistic pedagogy and public engagement

Recent Projects:

Recent work includes publications on participle leveling in English, sociolinguistic replication studies, and grammatical variation analysis. She has also collaborated on dialect mapping tools and consulted for media projects on language change and accents.

Awards:

No awards explicitly listed in provided texts.

Labs/Teams:

• NYU Sociolinguistics Lab (Co-Director)
• Our Dialects Project (Academic Lead)