Laurel MacKenzie

Education
2006–present
Ph.D. student, Linguistics
University of Pennsylvania
July 2007
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute
Stanford University

2002–2006
B.A., Linguistics and French double-major
University of California, Berkeley
Honors in Linguistics, Distinction in General Scholarship
2004–2005
University of California Education Abroad Program
Université de Toulouse II le Mirail, Toulouse, France
Research Interests
Sociophonetics
Language change across the lifespan
Phonological and morphological variation
Québec French

Presentations
2009
/s/-deletion and the preservation of plurality in Modern Occitan. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 38, University of Ottawa, October 24, 2009. (abstract | slides)
2009
Issues in Longitudinal Vowel Analysis: Evidence from Montreal French. (MacKenzie, Laurel and Gillian Sankoff.) Paper presented at Change and Variation in Canada III, York University, June 21, 2009. (abstract | slides)
2009
Longitudinal Evidence for Vowel Change in Montreal French. (MacKenzie, Laurel and Gillian Sankoff.) Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, January 10, 2009. (abstract)
2009
A Boho in SoHo: Emerging Specificity in English Templatic Hypocoristics. (Gorman, Kyle and Laurel MacKenzie.) Paper presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, January 8, 2009. (abstract | slides)
2008
A Quantitative Analysis of Diphthongization in Montreal French. (MacKenzie, Laurel and Gillian Sankoff.) Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 37, Rice University, November 8, 2008. (abstract | slides)
2008
The Acoustic and Visual Phonetic Basis of Place of Articulation in Excrescent Nasals. (Johnson, Keith, Christian DiCanio, and Laurel MacKenzie.) Paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 5, 2008. (abstract | slides)
2006
Visual-phonetic Cues in the Phonology of Toulousain French. (Johnson, Keith and Laurel MacKenzie.) Paper presented by Keith Johnson at Phonetic Bases of Distinctive Features, Carré des Sciences, Paris, July 3, 2006. (abstract | slides)
Teaching and Research Assistantships
Fall 2008
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING 102)
Instructor: Prof. Gillian Sankoff
Spring 2008
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Sociolinguistics (LING 102)
Instructor: Prof. Gillian Sankoff
Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Linguistics (LING 001)
Instructor: Prof. Mark Liberman
2006–2007,
Spring 2009
Research Assistant, Language Change Across the Lifespan
P.I.: Gillian Sankoff
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2009
Dean’s Summer Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2009
Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students (Teaching Assistants)
2008
Dean’s Summer Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
2007
Presidential Prize Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2006–2011
Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania
2006
University Medal Finalist, University of California, Berkeley
2006
Departmental Citation in French, University of California, Berkeley
2006
Phi Beta Kappa

Travel Grants
2009
Travel Grant from the Graduate and Professional Students’ Association, University of Pennsylvania
2008
Travel Grant from the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Professional Service
2008–present
Co-president, Graduate Students’ Linguistics Club, University of Pennsylvania
2008–2009
Organizing committee, 33rd Penn Linguistics Colloquium
2007–2008
Co-chair, 32nd Penn Linguistics Colloquium
2007
Organizing committee, NWAV 36, University of Pennsylvania
2006–2007
Organizing committee, 31st Penn Linguistics Colloquium
2007–present
Editor, Penn Working Papers in Linguistics
Language Proficiency
English: native
French: highly proficient
Latin, Norwegian, Japanese, Basque: elementary studies
Spanish: reading knowledge
Itawes: elicitation