Matthew Stuck
PhD student in Linguistics and RA in the Second Language Acquisition Lab
Hi! I’m Matt Stuck, a Level II student in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Program in Linguistics. Aside from my work at the GC, I’m an adjunct in the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at City College, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program at Lehman College, where I teach Sociolinguistics and Language Phenomena.
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Academic Interests
My interest in linguistics centers around building formal models of language variation in syntax and phonology, and exploring the role and consequences of language variation training in public forums.
Some of the major questions I pursue across bilingualism, sociolinguistics, and language attitudes are:
Sociolinguistics – In what ways are indexical linguistic variables sensitive to extralinguistic factors, and ow does the context of interaction regulate indexical values?
Bilingualism – How is variation within heritage languages expressed, and what does the quality of variation tell us about the underlying linguistic competence of bilinguals across immigrant generations?
Language attitudes: How do public-oriented educational training programs in language variation reshape ways in which society views non-standard speech varieties? How can particular attitudes be effectively tracked longitudinally, and what implications do these results have for the future of educational linguistics?
My first exam was titled: Formal constraints on English complementizer variation: A wide-scale survey of acceptability judgements
The title of my second exam is a work-in-progress, and examines longitudinal effects of an educational linguistics course for in-service teachers on systemic ideologies and treatment of non-standard dialects in the k-12 classroom.
Education
University of Washington, Seattle WA – BA in Linguistics and Spanish (2011-2013)
NYU Steinhardt, New York, NY – MA in TESOL (2013-2015)
CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY – PhD in Linguistics (2015 – Present)
