Alexandra D’Arcy, University of Victoria

Research

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Sociolinguistics Language Variation and Change Diachronic Linguistics

Latest funding

Attention and salience in the perception of social meaning
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$72,555
Only time will tell: incrementation and language change in the preschool and early elementary years
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$237,659
New ways of analyzing variation: Pachantsut - spreading roots
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$15,295

All 5 grants and awards

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Attention and salience in the perception of social meaning

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: D'Arcy, Alexandra

Keywords: (1) indexicality; (2) social meaning; (3) variation; (4) cognition

$72,555

Only time will tell: incrementation and language change in the preschool and early elementary years

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: D'Arcy, Alexandra F.

Keywords: language variation and change; incrementation; real time; gender differences; mechanisms of change

$237,659

New ways of analyzing variation: Pachantsut - spreading roots

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Connection Grants

Principal investigators: D'Arcy, Alexandra F.

Keywords: variationist sociolinguistics; language variation; language change; linguistic theory; language contact; multilingualism; indigenous languages

$15,295

Phonetic building blocks of speech

Principal investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: D'Arcy, Alexandra F.

Keywords: phonetics; speech technology; speech sciences; language learning

$17,840

Victoria English its development and current state

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: D'Arcy, Alexandra F.

Keywords: sociolinguistics; language variation and change; dialectology; historical sociolinguistics

$111,214

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Sociolinguistics Dear Professor D’Arcy, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on sociolinguistics connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Attention and salience in the perception of social meaning" (2019), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]